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Heysan - mjelly Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week

Started by Ewan · 7 months ago

Happy Friday! James here from mjelly.com with another Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week - this time we are going to look at HeySan - which hardly anyone knows about in the mobile industry but is getting pretty big and can teach us a lot about how to build a mobile web service with massive [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Ramit

    7 months ago

    Uh, Heysan has the shadiest viral mechanism I've ever seen. Based on this review, I logged in and clicked the "Share with friends." Without any confirmation, it blasted all of my friends, leading to AIM rate-limiting and kicking me off. Avoid Heysan.
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  • Jeff

    7 months ago

    I had the exact same experience. This is kind of like the Loopt debacle, wherein they spammed people's contacts with invites. Definitely leave this crap alone.
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  • jamescoops

    7 months ago

    Hey Ramit - I did highlight in the review that this is what they are doing and how effective it is. Virtually all of the soc nets (bebo, myspace, hi5) use this mechanism and heysan are the first i have seen to use it on mobile. To be fair you did click "share with friends" so it's hardly shady!
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  • drodger

    7 months ago

    I'm all for promoting companies to watch, but 100 million page views in a month - is that supposed to be a lot? Some of us in the mobile space are generating that kind of traffic in a day, so I'm not sure I'd consider it jaw dropping...
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  • jamescoops

    7 months ago

    Hey drodger - is that a startup site though or an established brand? Happy to cover you if you give us a shout (contact details on the mjelly site).
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