Mashable open web awards: Reminder voting closes soon

fringsters the Mashable open web awards voting widget will only be available for a few more days, if you havn’t already cast your vote for your favorite mobile application why not do it today

The process is very easy and takes only a few seconds of your time using the widget provided below.

Cast your vote today and may the best fring win!

The Crunchies 2008 awards - Nominate your favorite app

fringsters the time has come to once again nominate your favorite mobile application for a prestigious award. Following the success of the 2007 Crunchies awards, nominations are now open for the 2008 awards.

“Readers are invited to nominate their favorite product or company in each of the fifteen award categories. Readers can vote once a day until nominations end Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Midnight PST.

Five finalists will be selected for each award category and popular voting will run from December 15 – January 5, 2009 Midnight PST. The winners will be announced live at the award ceremony on January 9 in San Francisco.”

Let the nominations begin.

fring restructuring for growth

Hi guys,

fring has experienced several months of unprecedented growth. We are continuing to develop and grow the fring community and services way ahead of expectation, and even though the world is experiencing tough times, we are now adding 400,000 new fringsters every month, and have some very exciting product announcements to make very soon.

However, in an attempt to continue to provide our award winning service to the millions of fringsters worldwide, and at the same time remain flexible to cope with any challenges the global economic slowdown throws us, we have restructured some of our operations at fring HQ.

Part of this means that few of our co-workers are leaving us. They have all contributed huge amounts to the success of fring to date; we owe them enormous gratitude and wish them all the best in their future careers.

The fring team is 110% committed to continuing fring’s phenomenal success. We have just finalized a latest round of investment; our current investors are fully supportive and very optimistic about fring’s future. So, whilst some tough decisions have been taken, we now have a real sense of confidence that we will be prepared and even better positioned to achieve and exceed our goals of delivering you the world’s best mobile internet community and communications service available.

We know you’ll want to join us in wishing all of our fring friends the very best for their futures.

The fring team.

Update: new version for 2.2 iPhone/iPod touch firmware

Hi,

We have just released a new version for iPhone and iPod touch. This version (1.0.2.4) should fix the connection issues on the new 2.2 firmware.

Also on this version: French localization and bug fixes based on your feedback.

To get it, simply download the update from App Store.

And as always, we’d love to get your comments.

ilounge buyers guide - fring on the top 100 best apps

fringing Apple fans will be happy to know that the fifth edition of the world’s most popular iPod and iPhone buyers’ guide has just arrived! The 2009 guide is now available for free download over at iLounge.com

fring was delighted to see that we not only received honorable mention as one of the top 100 apps, we were also selected as one of the runners up for the 2008 “Best of the year awards”, under the category “iPhone, iPod Touch app of the year” & “Application Developer of the Year”.

The award recognizes products, programs and people that have most improved the way users enjoy their iPods and iPhones. fring is honoured to have been nominated and we aim to continue providing fringsters with great service in the future.

If you havn’t already downloaded your free edition of the 2009 iPod and iPhone buyers’ guide, get it now

iPod touch 2.2 firmware - please wait

Hi There,

As you might know, Apple’s released a new firmware version for iPhone/iPod touch.

Unfortunately, it looks like fring is not able to connect to the net using that firmware version on iPod touch.

We have found the bug causing it and fixed it internally. This should be available on the App Store in the next few days.

Mashable.com: Open web awards - Voting now open

The Mashable.com open web awards offers a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements.

During the recent nominations round, over 43,000 verified nominations were received. The hard working guys over at Mashable.com have now narrowed down the huge pool to the 10 most-nominated sites and services in each category.

fring is happy to announce we have made the top ten in the category “mobile applications”. A huge thank you to everyone who nominated fring during stage one. Stage two of the open web awards has just gone live.

Using the widget below, please cast a vote for your favorite mobile application

fringing ad trials

Hey guys

fring now has millions of fringsters covering the globe and as we grow up we want to make sure that fring remains free to download, free to use for all of our fringsters forever!

So, in line with our biz strategy, we’re about to trial the new fring ads program.

We wanted to give you the heads-up, as you may soon see small clickable advertising banners in the fring chat window, beneath the chat itself. Clicking the ad will open your browser and take you to the advertiser’s site; you may even find extra special offers, cool promos & other nice surprises behind the click from time to time :-) And, more clicks mean happy advertisers; and happy advertisers mean more resources for us to develop cool new stuff for you to play with in fring!

We’re starting the ad trials with just a small number of randomly selected fringsters each day and we’ve worked hard to make sure that your fringing experience isn’t affected in any way, but as always, we’re really keen to hear your feedback.

The fring team

fring goes to the movies

We love seeing all the videos that fringsters around the world create about their experiences with fring. So we’ve collected a few from around the web and created a special location to view, vote, comment, share ideas, give feedback and of course contribute new clips.

It’s all happening here so come over, take a look have your say or add your own.

BTW: To recognize your filmmaking talents, we’re doing a small ‘fring Oscars’ with some cool prizes to win in two different categories: Best Rated Clip, which is based on “ratings” given by you, through youTube (beginning Nov. 17 2008) & fring’s “Unofficial” Committee’s Favorite (basically the one that we at fring think is the coolest)…
The lucky winners will get a brand-new shiny iPod touch!

So go ahead and mail your fring video/link to: video@fring.com and…may the best fringster win!

Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1

I just had to share this video with everyone. Sit back and enjoy

Music by: The Richter Scales