Congratulations are in order for the Touchnote team. The company’s co-founder, Raam Thakrar delivered a solid and direct 2-minute pitch along side 6 other contenders.
Raam was presenting Touchnote Mobile — which, in brief — allows consumers to send photographs from their handsets as physical (and beautiful looking) postcard/greetings cards in the mail. Raam focused on the estimated market size for the industry ($500m in 3 years, say analysts) and on the Touchnote Mobile API (“Touchnote This”) that they’re now offering to any mobile developers who want to monetise their photography (or related) applications. Very smart indeed.
Well done Touchnote! Kudos to the MobileBeat 2009 audience who elected them the winners. I think it’s a brilliant service.
You can read the full story on Venturebeat (and see a pic of Raam just after accepting the award) here.
Touchnote win ‘best mobile service’ at MobileBeat: http://ping.fm/DuGV8
Touchnote win ‘best mobile service’ at MobileBeat: http://ping.fm/DuGV8
It'll be interesting to see how well this does. Vodafone started running a service like this years ago, and actively marketed it, but it completely failed to take off.
I agree; it took weeks for my Vodafone postcard that I sent to my gran to actually arrive. But the time is right now. Touchnote have really, really innovated with their service. Give it a try and see what you think. I particularly like the way their cards 'stand up' (they've put little corners on them).
Vodafone is just full of fail…
It'll be interesting to see how well this does. Vodafone started running a service like this years ago, and actively marketed it, but it completely failed to take off.
I agree; it took weeks for my Vodafone postcard that I sent to my gran to actually arrive. But the time is right now. Touchnote have really, really innovated with their service. Give it a try and see what you think. I particularly like the way their cards 'stand up' (they've put little corners on them).
Vodafone is just full of fail…
Kudos to Touchnote – mobile app to create photocards – for ‘best mobile service’ at MobileBeat | Mobile Industry Review http://ow.ly/hHgE
Kudos to Touchnote – mobile app to create photocards – for ‘best mobile service’ at MobileBeat | Mobile Industry Review http://ow.ly/hHgE
Kudos to Touchnote – mobile app to create photocards – for ‘best mobile service’ at MobileBeat | Mobile Industry Review http://ow.ly/hHgE