Mobile Contact Exchange or MCX enables individuals to share their contact information with others using their mobile phones, without the need for paper cards. Today on the store, there are many applications which do exactly this. Gaming giant Gabe Zichermann has however brought something different to the table. UNIVERSAL exchange …
[Update 10.11.08 @ 00.31am] – Gabe responded to us about this review a few hours ago, and wished to clear up a few things:
“I wanted to give you a quick heads up that:
a) The MySpace/Facebook links are editable if users log in to the website and remove them – but we’re eliminating them completely in the next version.
b) The international support will be stepped up a notch (!!) in the next couple of releases. I’ll show them to you early. 🙂
Thanks again!
Gabe”
Original Article:
Review at: v1.0.0
Released on: 24th October 2008
Retails for: FREE
RmbrME was founded by game industry expert and entrepreneur Gabe Zichermann and mobile tech guru Christopher Cunningham in 2007.
Gabe Zichermann
Zicherman who recently made a brief guest appearance on CNBC’s Big Idea, came up with the social plugin rmbrme, used to be the director of marketing at Gamasutra and helped to launch Trymedia Systems – the first successful online game DRM (Digital Rights Management) and distribution company, is now focusing his efforts on the iPhone.
Christopher Cunningham
Cunningham is the CTO [Wiki] and Co-Founder of rmbrME. Christopher’s past experiences include helping found TrekMail, a breakthrough mobile email/text application that was sold to Visto in 2005, as well as deep expertise with agile development processes and distributed team management. Christopher is also an avid digital photographer and frequent writer/contributor to numerous publications and conferences.
So what is BeamME?
It’s a mobile version of the Rmbrme service. What this essentially means is, when your sending your vcard, you recipient(s) don’t have to have an iPhone. BeamME works with any mobile device which can send SMS. Something which the other App Store offerings of this kind are lacking.
“rmbrME is a Mobile Lead Service that lets you send and receive socially-networked business cards from any device to any device. After punching a few keys on your mobile phone, your new lead instantly gets your electronic business card. They can then browse your websites and blogs, custom greeting and photos, and send their vCard back to your Address Book, CRM or Outlook for follow-up and tracking. They can even add you directly to their LinkedIn, Facebook or MySpace. rmbrME works on and between any phone or carrier and without downloads, installs or subscriptions.”
– Gabe
The application only accepts U.S formatted phone numbers currently, but Gabe did manage to send us these two demo shots which give you a general idea for the application and how it functions:
As well as sending your vcard to a phone number, you also have the option to e-mail it to someone. We were obviously able to test this side of things for ourselves, and so here’s a screenshot of our Hotmail inbox and our received vcard:
Things we didn’t like …
There are two options to create a vcard with BeamME. The first is to create one from scratch. The second is for BeamME to import your details from an existing contact profile from address book. The app not only added an advert for Facebook and MySpace into the card, it also stuck a large one in the ‘Notes’ section for the app itself.
Also, the e-mail we received with the vcard information contained this URL:
To see see ARRON’s vCard and contact information, follow this link:
http://rmbrme.com/users/14839
When the link was clicked though, RmbrME returned a message to the effect of:
“Sorry, that page doesn’t exist.”
It clearly has a few bugs, and a few issues which need ironing out, and the lack of UK phone number support is pretty poor. It’s also noted in one of the App Store reviews that the application also lacks address formatting for the Australia, UK and Portugal.
Start Beaming, with BeamME: Here
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