It’s with a great deal of excitement that I get to announce that Next2Friends has completed development of our new Communications and Mobile-Driven Social Networking Platform! It has been years in development and will be up for testing and industry review this December 24th, 2007. Then, beginning January 2nd, 2008, all Next2Friends pre-registered accounts will become active! Get ready to experience a totally new take on communicating, social networking and unlocking the potential of any mobile device in ways that have never been seen!

So what exactly is Next2Friends?

Next2Friends is a new Communications Platform and Mobile based Social Networking experience that interacts with any Mobile Device (like a cell phone), allowing you to do the following:

Intelligent Proximity Matching Services:

Next2Friends Intelligent Proximity Matching assists you in the otherwise tedious task of network building by bridging the “virtual world” with the “real world”. You can use it to meet new people like you, make new business contacts or even to date. Here’s how it works:

You set up a Next2Friends profile detailing all your likes, dislikes, quirks and everything that makes you who you are. Then, as you move about in the real world, if you have the Next2Friends software loaded onto your Bluetooth and or P2P WIFI enabled mobile device, Next2Friends will automatically collect and match your data to other Next2Friends users you came into close proximity with. When you next sign into your account you’ll receive notification of all the people you passed throughout the day who share your likes, dislikes, and yes, even your quirks. The rest is up to you! After a while you might find yourself wondering, “are you Next2Friends?”

Worried that this could become a way for people to track you throughout your day? Fear not! Next2Friends’ patent pending technology insures both anonymity and privacy via a highly secure implementation methodology and exclusive encryption algorithms so you will only be seen if and when you want to be seen!

Live Streaming Video:

How many times have you missed an important family event, or wanted to share a special moment with close friends who couldn’t be with you at the time? With Next2friends Live Video Streaming, you can broadcast live events from any capable mobile device or webcam to your family and friends wherever they are in the world! They can watch the event in real-time with you, as it happens!

And if multiple people are at the same event and broadcast on the same channel, any number of end users will be able to choose between the different camera angles being streamed to edit, download or even burn a DVD of the event. Next2Friends Live Video Streaming means no one ever has to miss that first home run again, or that all of us can be eye witnesses to life changing events anytime, from anywhere!

Ask-A-Friend:

Have you ever been out and about and just wanted the advice of a good friend? How about the advice of all your friends at once? Next2Friends has a dynamic new way to get instant feedback from all your friends. The service is called Ask-A-Friend. It works like this:

Say you’re out shopping for shoes and you find 3 really great pairs of shoes but you’re not sure which ones go best with your jeans. With Ask-A-Friend you can snap photos of yourself wearing all three pairs and then create an instant opinion poll to send to all your friends for a vote. The results are then sent directly back to you.

Ask-A-Friend gives you real time results when you need them the most; in the real world!

Online Video Editing:

Next2Friends Online Video editing is one of the only online Video Editing Suites available today! Edit videos in real time as they’ re streamed into the site or go back and make edits to and combine videos that have already been shot. Next2Friends gives you the first ever comprehensive set of online video editing tools to turn any event into a full blown video production!

Video Messaging:

Video Messaging is a way to put a personal touch to something we all do dozens of times a week: “leave a message at the beep”. With Next2Friends Video Messaging you can record a message and mail it to anyone to be viewed either on a computer or a cell phone! Be creative, have fun, just imagine what this will do to the game of phone tag!

We look forward to serving you and hope you enjoy all the ways that you will soon be able to truly be “Next2Friends”!!!

Real life,

Real time,

Real people,

Right Now!!

Next2Friends

Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans@Next2Friends.com

[via the Next2Friends Blog]