Comments on: Mobio — the useful mobile service

By: Where is Mobio? « Marketing Mystic

Where is Mobio? « Marketing Mystic — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:16:10 +0000

[...] no longer in business. Mobio Networks was a startup that received a good deal of publicity from Venturebeat, Mashable and $9million in funding in 2007 because of the nifty mobile services they provided. [...]

By: Bob Jenkins

Bob Jenkins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:35:53 +0000

The new/updated portal from Mobio is even slicker. Now you can customize the RSS feeds, buy movie tickets and check out the cheapest gas prices with 1 or 2 clicks. Awesome job Mobio folks.

By: Marcia Kadanoff

Marcia Kadanoff — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:26:45 +0000

Here at GetMobio, it is true that we ask you to register with us so we can get you our mobile software.

Our users seem more than willing to do that – as our mobile applications are fun, simple, useful, and truly FREE. We collect personal info for one reason only – to get you the GetMobio software for your mobile phone. We don’t collect info up sell our users into a subscription-based service at some later point … like some folks do.

Free at GetMobio means no subscription fee and we intend to keep it that way!

By: anon

anon — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:37:10 +0000

What is so unique about Mobio?

Also, it is a big turn-off when such companies ask you to register. Most users don’t use such sites more than 10 times, but these companies claim #of registered users to get better valuations!

By: Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:52:00 +0000

I mentioned Widsets in an earlier piece on Plusmo.
http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/05/plusmo-slides-content-across-your-idle-mobile-phone/

The mention is lower down in the story.

Just from the demo the preview gave me, Mobio seems to grab me with its simplicity. I hope it works out in reality. My phone, Treo, wasn’t compatible with the service, and didn’t have time to review it properly.

If you look at their site, you’ll see they’re really into good-looking design.

By: Bob Jenkins

Bob Jenkins — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:42:17 +0000

I don’t get widsets…it’s just an RSS reader and a few widgets. Also, their content is mostly Uk, Australia and I saw little US stuff (it was a while back)

That Mobio thing with the “mediating” server…whatever that is, sounds intelligent and with a local (US) content angle it doesn’t sound the same at all.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:08:44 +0000

Hey Matt, if you like Mobio, you should check out Widsets.com. They're doing something similar (Java software interface, custom data feeds coming in) but companies create their own widgets. They just added Blackberry support and it's very slick.