You’ve seen them cropping up in various places: email signatures, business cards… even holiday greetings. People are increasingly adding their social networking user names to their traditional contact information. Is it simply self-promotion (follow me on twitter! @keelarobison)? Certainly in many cases, yes. But it’s more than that. Social networking sites have for many people become the hubs of our online personas; the places where we communicate broadly with our friends and colleagues. These sites are also emerging as a preferred means of communication for some, who more regularly check their Facebook inbox than they do their email.
At WhitePages, our mission is to make it fantastically simple for people to connect with confidence. Today we’re announcing that we are adding publicly available social networking user pages to our service, making it even easier for our customers to connect. Our current “preview” launch provides access to millions of Twitter and Facebook user pages, and in the near future we will be adding significantly to this feature with additional public profiles and social networks. Likewise, anyone who adds or edits their WhitePages member listing is invited to add their social networking links to make it easier for others to reach them via their preferred means of communication.
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Along with fellow mobile application leader Pandora and mobile marketing pros from our ad agency partners MediaVest and Ignited, WhitePages’ VP Mobile & Monetization, Kevin Nakao, co-presented a wide-ranging series of mobile app and in-app advertising case studies in a “Master Class” session at this week’s iMedia Agency Summit in Scottsdale, AZ.
This master class, held the afternoon of the first day, was a complex team effort, bringing four co-presenters (and four case studies) together in one information-packed hourlong session.
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Today marks the launch of the new WhitePages for Android application. In recent weeks there has been an Android explosion, and Google Android-powered phones are now available from almost every major US wireless carrier. AdMob recently noted that 20% of the smartphone market is now Android phones – that’s up from 2% just 8 months ago!
So, it’s not surprising that we’ve gotten a lot of requests to take the People Search, Business Search and Reverse Phone number search found in many of our other applications and make them available for Android phones. The new WhitePages app includes all of these features and more for free — and complements the Top 10 grossing Caller ID app that we released for Android earlier this year.
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Check our latest release of Names.WhitePages.com! This product brings a useful and fun resource to anybody interested in names and genealogy – but we think it’s especially useful for parents to be.
Not only can you explore potential names, but you can now uncover the origin, meaning, and popularity all in one place. We’re the only site where you can determine popularity for the Unique end of the name popularity spectrum, which is timely because this research from SDSU shows that more than ever parents want to give their children unique names.
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