This week we put up a new page for the Plum Groups iPhone App. It lists the features Plum iPhone App, shows some screenshots and links users to the iTunes store so they can grab it. The app is FREE. Click here to grab yours now.
Plum Groups iPhone App in the iTunes App Store
Oh, iPhone. You had us at ‘gesture to unlock.’ We’re unabashed admirers of the iPhone interface. That makes us … and a few million other folks.
Beyond swooning, though, we were determined to bring group communication to that revolutionary device in a way that no one has done before; to bring ‘Groups 2.0′ to the iPhone. Over that past several months, determination became action. And action became labor. Which briefly became hunger (lunch). Then quickly back to labor. Until finally…
The NEW Plum Groups iPhone application
It’s available right now (the link leads directly to the app on the iTunes store). We already have some enhancements lined up, but we couldn’t wait to share our excitement. Consider it an advanced preview.
Features include:
Plum is all about the close-knit groups of people in your real life. The new Plum Groups iPhone app is incredibly useful for these groups to stay in touch. At Plum we have all set up our own private family groups, we have groups for sharing and chatting within the company and we have groups with friends. Since downloading the iPhone app people in these groups have become even more active.
Group communication shouldn’t be tethered to the desktop. That’s why Plum is committed to a mobile group experience that enables your close-knit friends and family to stay connected on-the-go. The Plum Groups iPhone app is just one of our many mobile initiatives to bring this to fruition.
Please download the app today and send us your feedback.
We released a bunch of fun and useful improvements to Plum Groups this week. Here are some highlights:
This week’s update to Plum Groups sports fun, new themes. Choose Blue Clouds….
or Green Grass…
And may other choices too. Access the new themes from the “Manage Group” link in the upper right. Note: Only Group creators / administrators can change the theme for a group.
As always, send us your feedback, comments, suggestions and input. Enjoy!
San Francisco, California - April 1, 2009 - The kingdom of Norway today announced that it will acquire the social networking company Plum for an undisclosed amount. Plum will join forces with Innovation Norway a state owned company with over seven hundred employees with its head office in Norway’s capital Oslo and with offices in all the Norwegian counties and in over thirty countries.
“While Silicon Valley is the world’s hub for tech IPOs and acquisitions, we realize that it is not often that a country makes this kind of strategic technology acquisition” says Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Sylvia Brustad. “Norway is in a unique position due to its vast oil and gas reserves and budget surplus. The country has a made a strategic decision to foster technology innovation through strategic investment and acquisitions. Plum is a perfect fit with its founders both having Scandinavian roots, strong Silicon Valley and Boston connections and long track records of innovation and success.”
Plum Groups will be rolled out in Norwegian to every county in the country this fall in order to foster social sharing and collaboration at the grass roots level. Recent reports and criticism in the mainstream media has caused concerns among the Norwegian people and in the government about the broader societal influence of social networking. Plum is attractive due to its focus on privacy and on groups of people who already know each other.
“The Norwegian public were early adopters of the popular Facebook social networking service becoming one of the first places outside the US where Facebook took off” said Hans Peter Brøndmo, co-founder and CEO of Plum. “Norway is killing two birds with one stone with this acquisition. It is offering a more private and family oriented complement to Facebook and it is bringing an innovative social software technology start-up to its home shores”.
Plum will open an office in a new high tech office park in Oslo and Brondmo will move back to Norway and lead Plum from the Oslo office. Margaret Olson, Plum’s CTO and co-founder will spend twenty five percent of her time in Plum’s new headquarters and will lead development teams in Boston, Massachusetts and Oslo, Norway.
While Iceland has been getting a lot of attention recently as a possibly hub for cloud based computing due to its economic woes and green energy sources, Norway has been overlooked in this regard. Given it’s long history as a source of clean, hydroelectric power and cool weather, Norway is a perfect location for cloud based computing. Plum’s cloud based web service will be transitioned from Amazon Web Services to a new Norwegian eco-friendly cloud computing initiative, also sponsored by Innovation Norway, over the next two years.
For existing Plum customers and users there will be no change. This acquisition gives Plum a solid base to continue its innovation and continuing development on its existing product roadmap with a focus on online and mobile social networking for groups.
For more information or questions, please contact Innovation Norway at post@innovasjonnorge.no and Plum at info@plum.com
Plum Groups is live. Our goal with this release is to make the whole groups category a bit more social. We are focused on making it really quick and easy to set up a private (or public) Plum Group.
You can set up a Plum Group in less than a minute. Invite friends, family, co-workers, team members, classmates… you decide.
Your Plum Groups come with lots of neat features and are easy to use. For instance:
Click here to set up your own groups and start sharing and connecting with the different groups of people you care about.
Or perhaps you want to make your site more social? Click here to explore becoming a Plum partner and using our white-labels social platform to create community and social activity on your site.
