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Mobile user experience solutions developer Zumobi announced the launch of Ziibii, a free iPhone application promising real-time social interaction between users across a variety of social media apps. According to Zumobi, Ziibii blends elements of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube with web content to enable user interaction along with ongoing discovery of news, stories and blogs via direct-connect to social networking sites and RSS feeds. Zumobi adds that Ziibii offers advertising and sponsorship opportunities that incorporate brands into the overall content flow, becoming part of the ongoing engagement and product experience--the app offers an inventory of mobile advertising, sponsorships and media units as well as reporting tools and analytics for usage and behavior. For more on Ziibii: - read this release or check out this demo video Related articles: Zumobi expands to BlackBerry platform Zumobi extends widget platform

Mobile UI development firm Zumobi announced the launch of its first application for Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices. The widget product promises to enhance the BlackBerry user experience by delivering efficient access to "bites" of customized web content including news, sports, weather, entertainment and games. Users may also create their own personalized widgets via Zumobi's Tile Creation Wizard; in conjunction with the BlackBerry launch, industry weblog BlackBerry Cool will debut its own branded Zumobi Tile to extend its news and reviews to the mobile platform. For more on Zumobi's BlackBerry move: - read this release Related articles: Zumobi extends widget platform Zumobi signs distribution deal with Microsoft

Mobile widgets are apparently the next big thing in mobile-land. They’re applications using iPhone-style icon interfaces to provide access to all manner of news, services and content. If this is new to you, check out WidSets, Yahoo Go and Zumobi. Actually, there’s more reason to check out Zumobi now, as it’s just launched for BlackBerry devices, [...]

The widget driven application, Zumobi, will release its BlackBerry client as soon as next month, The Boy Genius reported recently. It has achieved native status on Windows Mobile 6.1., so far, this application already ran well with the Motorola Q, Samsung Blackjack 1.0, HTC Dash and HTC Touch. Its J2ME client is scheduled for early [...]

The guys behind Zumobi seems to be busy at the moment improving their Zumobi client and therefore they just announced a new version of Zumobi for Windows Mobile (Classic, Professional and Standard). Zumobi is new and free mobile widget application that lets you enjoy entertainment and information content delivered to your phone in an innovative and new way. Backed-up by Microsoft, it's totally free and ready for you to download now! The new version includes a lot of the improvements which are directly related to the feedback, users sent in. [ Permalink ] (c) 2008 by the::unwired - All Rights Reserved

Filed under: Software , Windows Mobile Hot on the heels of a freshly minted public beta , Zumobi has paired up with former parent Microsoft to distribute its tiled content browsing client with Windows Mobile. Zumobi's press release is extraordinarily vague (see the full text after the break) and we can't really make out how far-reaching the distro deal is, but even if only a modest percentage of future WinMo handsets feature Zumobi's client built in, you've gotta figure that it's a huge win for the start-up -- if you can really call a Microsoft spinoff a "start-up" -- that's definitely looking for all the publicity it can get right now. Anyone have a chance to fiddle around with the beta yet? SEATTLE - January 22, 2008 - Zumobi today announced a partnership deal with Microsoft. Under terms of the business agreement, Microsoft will distribute the award-winning Zooming User Interface and mobile widget platform with Windows Mobile. This distribution agreement builds on the content partnerships Zumobi announced in December. "Currently shipping on devices from more than 48 device makers with 125 mobile operators in 55 countries, Windows Mobile is one of the most accessible and familiar mobile computing platforms," said Eric Hertz, CEO of Zumobi. "This strategic partnership benefits all of our constituencies - consumers, developers, content providers, carriers and advertisers - and enables us to continue building momentum quickly with our audience of techno-culturists and mobile business users." Today, more than 140 devices in the marketplace worldwide are based on Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile-based phones are designed for people to be productive on-the-go, all while having the ability to stay in touch with colleagues and friends. Windows Mobile-based phones also include mobile versions of Office Outlook, Office Word, Office Excel and Office PowerPoint and Internet Explorer, giving people access to critical business data...