At this time tomorrow something really cool is happening. Next2Friends is launching its public BETA. Some really great services for your mobile device and the Next2Friends site will be online. We are looking for feedback from as many of you as possible. Please do check it out!

A little about Next2Friends:

NEXT2FRIENDS - The Real World, Virtually.

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

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!

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!

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! So thanks again for your Pre-Registration. 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!! Just wait until you see our roadmap!

NEXT2FRIENDS - The Real World Scenarios
PROXIMITY - SWM, NS, ISO an angel. Must be kind, love dogs, Beethoven, but still be able to talk her way out of heaven. Next2Friends will help you find whatever you’re looking for by matching your profile to the very people that you pass every day! If they exists, Next2Friends will deliver them practically to your door! - SWF, ISO a man with some serious money! With Next2Friends all it takes is a stroll down Wall Street! - Say you’re attending a conference on Physics. You just had a dream that E.T. explained the nature of Dark matter. Next2Friends can tell you who wants to know! - You just started a band and are looking for people who like the kind of music you make. Next2Friends can tell you who you should promote to. - If go see a band like yours perform live, you could instantly collect hundreds of potential fans with Next2Friends. - 2007 is almost over and it will go down as the first full year you haven’t gotten laid since you were 17. With Next2Friends the solution is simple: go for a walk in your neighborhood, come home and sign in to Next2Friends and you’ll instantly see who has the same problem and who is ready to do something about it!

Ask-A-Friend - You’re out shopping and you see the cutest shirt but you’re wondering if it makes you look fat, so you try it on, stand in front of a mirror and snap a photo to get some instant advice. - You’re at a club and are really drunk, in fact your beer goggles are as thick as amber so you snap a photo of the guy/girl you’ve been dancing with all night to get some “sober” advice. Hot or not?

Live Video Streaming - You’re at your older cousin’s wedding, bored out of your mind when suddenly your uncle drops to the floor and starts doing the worm! Man, you never knew he had joints there! - Same wedding and suddenly grandpa starts making his dentures dance! You have got to see this! - You’re out skating with your friends and find the perfect rail. No one has a camera on them so you pull out your phone with Next2Friends on it. Check out this nose grind! - You get a message from a friend that he’s arrived at the party and it’s “mad hot”. The last time he said that there were 50 guys and only 2 married women there. Show me what we’re talking about dude! - Some of your friends got tickets to see your favorite band! The show is on a Wednesday night and your parents won’t let you see bands on a school night. With Next2Friends your friends can broadcast the show to you from all of their phones! Something tells me that you’ve got some very important “homework” to do on your computer at 8pm! - Parent to child: “So you’re spending the night at Brandi’s house? Show me here mom!” Busted! - Real Estate agent in London takes a client in the U.S. on a virtual tour of a home with her cell phone complete with selling points - A Grandma gets to witness her grandson, who lives in Connecticut, hit his first home-run as it happens from Florida.

Online Video Editing - That show that all your friends are at, some friends are right up next to the stage, a few have a better view of the whole band from farther back, and one friend is running around taking video of all the hot girls at the show! With Next2Friends Online Video Editing tools, YOU decide what you see!

And a few photos of some of the mobile device applcations:

[via the Next2Friends Blog]