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Called Nudgemii, the application effectively integrates Facebook’s existing “poke” functionality with text messaging by allowing users to send short text messages (of up to 50 characters) as a “nudge” to their Facebook friends worldwide.<\/p>\n

According to Fontera, the main benefit of Nudgemii lies in the fact that one can stay in touch with friends across the world even if one is offline – for free. <\/p>\n

Simon Leps, CEO of Fontera<\/a> said that, “For something to be considered a true form of social networking, it needs to go beyond your computer. Creating an application that links to your cellphone therefore seems like the logical next step.” <\/p>\n

Facebook users can install the Nudgemii application on Facebook<\/a> as they would any of the applications ranging from virtual fortune cookies to horoscopes. Once installed, a Nudgemii button appears as part of the user’s Facebook profile. From here the user can send “nudges” together with short text messages to their Facebook friends. <\/p>\n

Recipients receive an SMS on their phone, containing the “nudge” as well as their friend’s short message. To receive a “nudge”, recipients need to have the Nudgemii application installed on their Facebook profiles as well. <\/p>\n

Fontera is currently in the process of developing more cell phone applications for Facebook.<\/p>\n

With more than 30 million active users, Facebook is the first social networking site to open its system to outside developers. It currently has a growing menu of 1400 applications ranging from virtual food fights to applications that compare friends’ taste in movies.<\/p>\n

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Local company Fontera has launched an application that allows Facebook users to send free SMS messages to their friends all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}