What’s coming next?

We love communities and we have a very solid growth strategy around whitelabel mobile communities and aggregated communities.  I’ll have to do another big blog posting about my views on “Communities vs. Social Networks” but with the proliferation with social networks we see the opportunity for a re-emergence of interest based communities on mobile to be very strong.

New Features! Ok – there’s been a HEAP of requests from both end users and partners as well, as well as internally so over the New Year Holidays we collated our favourites and had some external advise and put together a short list of features and enhancements that aim to improve user content management and finding like-minded people to communicate with (= fun++).  Some of the coming enhancements (which will be launched in the first week of february)are :

1) Groups – Create, manage and join groups from your mobile.  Groups contain a discussion board and photo album.

2) Photo Albums+ – One album is never enough (I’ve felt) so we’re introducing the ability to create and manage your own photo albums directly from the mobile.  Along with this functionality comes the ability to attach a photo to your blog post, group details and profile avatar.

3) Advanced Happenings – We’ve improved on happenings to be more informative and cover a wider range of events which will give you more visibility over happenings across your friends, groups and blogs.

4) Notifications – Want to be notified when someone has replied to one of your comments or shoutouts?  Notifictions will alert you to actions that require your attention and most importantly – keep you in the loop!

5) UI Enhancements – The Mobile UI is getting some slight changes to focus on bringing dynamic information to the forefront.  This ensures that every page brings you the latest information and community insight.

I’ll post some screenshots as we smooth things out towards the end of the week.