May 24

Netmino vs. Facebook

By Jean-Luc Schellens Info No Comments »

Today with all the trouble and controversy about the social networks I mentioned in my previous posts, I have the opportunity to reassert that Netmino exists because we want to offer to the users a solution to completely and safely manage and share all their personal data.

But clearly we have opted for the iPhone OS as platform because by definition it’s safer than the Web. On the iPhone OS, everything is under the control of the user, on the Web those who collect and manage personal data always end up abusing it! That is inherent in their business model… as demonstrated by Plaxo, Facebook or MySpace. Mark Zuckerberg’s “apologies” and its new rivals will not change this logic!

So if you care about privacy, create and manage your social networks on a platform you control NOT on the Web. With Netmino, you create on your iPhone (iPod Touch or iPad) as many personal and professional profiles as you need and you share and update them as you decide with all your networks: family, friends, colleagues, customers, suppliers…

“Social Networking and privacy are too important to be entrusted to a third party!”

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May 19

In the iPhone community, a patent from Apple has been largely covered due to the potential Facebook integration into the next iPhone OS.

The patent was originally filed in Q3 2008 and the purpose is indeed to simplify exchanges of data like contacts from address books or profiles from social networks between electronic devices.

Knowing that a lot of iPhone apps – including Netmino – are natively offering such exchanges and are not rejected from the App Store, I am mot sure Apple is effectively defending this patent!

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Apr 19

A new rumor is launched regarding an integration of Facebook in the OS 4.0.

It’s not a surprise for us as we know that Apple has confirm the support of CardDAV currently under development in the IETF work group we’re one of the members. It’ll be indeed a mean to publish and share your address books on the Web and to synchronize it with your iPhone Contacts or with Netmino of course !

Stay tuned!

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Apr 12

I’m really happy with the way Apple is implementing the location services as explained by Scott Forstall. It shows clearly that Apple cares about privacy.

I am also happy to see that it’ll be possible to link contacts in the address book. It seems to be really far from what we are doing in Netmino but it shoes that for Apple a relational address book is also a relevant feature!

Here are screenshots from AppleInsider:

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Mar 05

It’s “bizarre” but since the first of March, Netmino is recording 15 x more daily downloads from France than from any other country.

We don’t have any explanation…

So your feedbacks are welcome.

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Jan 30

Again, it has been very quick!

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Jan 15

Thanks to Xavier we have been able to correct a critical bug he discovered when copying an iPhone contact: if the contacts are stored in Outlook, Netmino is indeed crashing. On the French App Store Olivier69 is also commenting the bug!

We apologize for that.

So we are finalizing a 1.0.1 release to correct the bugs and to add localizations in Dutch and German.

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Dec 08

Today George sent us the final release of the code and Frédéric will build the binary as soon as I can. Finish first your exams, son!

Tomorrow will be the big day: the start of the submission process. Stay tuned.

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