Ok, so a year ago if we'd taken a poll, who would you have voted Most Likely to Succeed in 2009? iPling or...Lehman Brothers?
Well, the world is an unpredictable place, but we've been promising an exciting new product debut in Latin America and, undeterred by global financial meltdown and pandemic, our indefatigable CEO Manuel Monroy has marshalled scarce resources, kept the core team in place, brought on a strong technology partner, and hammered out key deals with Mexican cellular carriers to make the dream a reality. Now the product is ready and after the last business pieces fall into place over the next couple of weeks, sometime in July we'll go live with the pilot of iPling Instant Classifieds in Mexico City.
Initially the service is available on the dominant Telcel network. Before long we'll be adding more carriers to broaden coverage. Unlike our original Find and Be Found US application, it doesn't depend on an iPhone. If your phone can send and receive text messages, you can participate.
Later in Q3 we'll release an iPhone version of the application for the US market.
In a nutshell, iPling Instant Classifieds lets you post, browse, and correspond about brief, location-aware classified ads for goods and services via text messages. Users are untethered from a computer and free to connect any time, anywhere the need arises. Twitter's exploding popularity has opened the door to a wide range of SMS-based interactions. iPling Instant Classifieds is a logical evolution of the SMS medium in a commercial and transactional direction.
We can't wait to take the wraps off of our launch promotions and get the ball rolling. Check back here on the blog soon; we'll keep you posted as the clock counts down!
