Facebook mobile platform

Today at CTIA, Facebook announced support for mobile versions of Facebook applications. Well at least kind of. I’m not entirely sure of the details yet, but it looks like app developers can tie into mobile components, like SMS messaging. Facebook uses SMS to alert me when I have received a new inbox message. This is convenient and handy. Apps can now use this, which is cool, because individual developers would have to rely on email->sms gateways or pay for a messaging service to work with all carriers. Now it seems they can piggyback on Facebook, who have the message infrastructure in place.

It also sounds like apps can have mobile versions that will work with the mobile version of the site. Note that there are two. One wap (or maybe xhtml-mp), the other for iPhone. The iPhone app is the best app out there. Although the applications aren’t supported, basic Facebook functionality works fabulously. I’ll have to take a look at the developer API a little more now and see what else can be exploited for mobile apps. The SMS gateway is enough already for the little guy. ...More

Anuj Dahiya joins ValueFirst

ValueFirst celebrated its fourth anniversary on 17^th October 2007 with the welcome of Anuj Dahiya, a well known professional in the online and media circles. Anuj is known for his expertise in excellence in business development. Anuj has joined ValueFirst as Sales Head - India being responsible for sales in India.

Anuj was earlier holding a position of Business Director in GroupM. Anuj was handling clients such as Hero Honda, Sony Ericsson, Indiatimes Travel, ABN Amro, Discovery, Perfetti and GE Money in Interactions.

“ValueFirst is at an interesting juncture currently. It can scale to a INR 100 crore business with right kind of sales push and focussed effort. This was one of the reasons which propelled me to join ValueFirst and accept the challenge”, says Anuj Dahiya.

Vijay Shukla, Country Head, ValueFirst, was delighted on the occasion and commented, “With Anuj onboard, ValueFirst is set to achieve a accelerated growth in revenues for FY07-08”.

About ValueFirst

ValueFirst (www.vfirst.com) empowers its customers to communicate between varied IT back-end systems and mobile phones using SMS Services. ValueFirst provides a unique, end-to-end, global carrier-grade mobile data service. Its mobile data service offering includes "plug and play" application licensing and hosting. Employing a partnership with mobile operators, ValueFirst acts as an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), with a clear focus on SMS mobile messaging. ValueFirst’s Mobile Messaging Platform is capable of delivering SMS services to virtually any CDMA/GSM mobile handset.