"NokiaUsers-social" - a competitor for Facebook

The new thing from Nokia. Would be this good in order to attract customers? IMHO I think it would be a necessity for Nokia.
Nokia, now as a "service company" how it likes to redefine itself, for customer retention, Nokia needs to have its own brand service "NokiaUsers-social-page" (or what would be better name?), sort of Facebook), based on Ovi services but integrated in one page. It is not that hard to have a personal page, supporting blog, once the rest of infrastracture (posting images, videos, other files, email, IM) is already in OVI and can be easily integrated in a service "NokiaUsers-social-page" called however they find a proper name ("facebook" and "hi5" names are taken ) . Nokia can also buy a small company that does this kind of thing and integrate it with ovi services for this purpose.
Why to do this "NokiaUsers-social-page", besides integrating services from Facebook?
* because Nokia has this power to do this, power given by the large user-base, iPhone only has 30 million user-base, but Nokia has 300 million users, more than Facebook users, and if these users are presented with an easy creation / registration for this social page, which can require only a "nickname" because the phone number can be used as an id, then many nokia users will be registered to the "social service"
* because integration with Facebook is offered by Android (HTC, Motorola, Samsung), Apple (iPhone), RIM (Blackberry), so to be somehow more special, Nokia can offer both integration with "Facebook" and "NokiaUsers-Social-Page"
* "NokiaUsers-Social-Page" can be intergrated in Symbian, so existing (millions) and new Symbian users can easily benefit from it

I was thinking about a Nokia service like "Facebook", see here the original posting:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=48

and today I read in the news that actually Nokia does something in this sense:
http://www.nokiausers.net/Nokia-Pres...t-Shelved.html

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Nokia recently acquired the small company Plum which specialized in Social Media Networking, and still have an active member base. It is very similar to that of Facebook, but lets you manage your Groups better. Contacts, and feeds and how you want them shared.
Many people have set up two Facebook accounts, one for professional usage, and another for friends and family, or for actual people, and friends they have actually met in person face to face. This is where Plum comes into its own, allowing you to easily manage your feeds, and contacts so you only show certain information shared with those people you choose to share with.
<<end of quote from Nokia-Acquires-Plum: Nokia-Friend-View-Project

>>> Architengi wrote:
>>> Another thing is why Nokia is using Facebook when with its user base it can create a NokiaUsers platform which has Ovi share as repository for pictures, videos, but everyting to be integrated in the "NokiaUsers" - a better name for this facebook clone is needed, but Nokia needs to lead and in order to do that they need to promote their own services and brands to attract people.
>>>> talmage wrote:
>>>> Facebook has 250 million active users. Nokia's goal is to have 300 million by 2012. If Nokia can get any part of the Facebook revenue stream for directing users that way, that's nearly free money.

Nokia and Plum today announced that Nokia has acquired certain assets of Plum Ventures, Inc, a privately held company which employed approximately 10 people with main offices in Boston, Massachusetts. Plum will complement Nokia's Social Location services.

The acquired Plum assets will become part of Nokia's Services unit.

More information about Plum..

Plum develops and operates a cloud-based social media sharing and messaging service for private groups. Plum-powered groups are ideally suited for families, co-workers, neighborhoods, sports, schools, faith and any other existing social group. The company has offices in San Francisco and Boston and is privately held. For more information please visit, www.plum.com

http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/2009/...ject-completed

Nokia Friend View project is completed.

http://friendview.nokia.com

Nokia forum is that way ----------------------->

I'm a MySpace guy myself, and I think Nokia should buy them but won't. The next best thing would be creating an Ovispace, but it allows you to integrate your MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 and OviChat accounts into one interface. I've been begging for awhile, but Facebook got iPhone love, and no one can see the value of the media rich MySpace. Nokia's position as a media and web company, with CWM and the upcoming video store, fits perfect with MySpace.

MySpace widget shipping with the New N97 firmware in Oct

Unfortunately, "Friend View" project is closed.

On its web site, http://friendview.nokia.com , Nokia wrote:

"Friend View has closed its registration, ... you can only use it if you have an account already."

Download is available for Nokia devices with Symbian s60v5 (touch) and all Symbian s60v3... A lot of effort has been put into this software, just to be closed now...!?!

Or maybe this is because they want to integrate it with "Plum" they just bougth yesterday, and release the new Nokia's "facebook like" application?

I did not know about this "Frend View" project (which is closed now), just I was thinking Nokia should create an application like Facebook and put it in every phone, with easy registration or even no registration, just using your phone number and your name from your "caller ID". I was thinking about this before I found out Nokia had this Friend View and bougth "Plum" which might mean Nokia actually might want to create a Facebook clone after all.

This is Nokia forum as well, about all the services and apps that might be available for Maemo 5, isn't it?

I take it, they are just going to kill it. Obviously the purchase of Plum will likely lead to either a re-branded Plum site or a merging of these two social sites, reborn as a new social network.

*shakes finger at Nokia* Quit abandoning your projects.