An application that creates and displays a slideshow of a contact’s Facebook photos each time the user makes or receives a mobile call has been downloaded 100,000 times within 30 days of its public release.
Vringo, a provider of software platforms for mobile social and video applications, said that its Facetones app, which has been released through mobile operators including NTT DOCOMO and Telefonica in Spain & South America, as well as appstore GetJar, has exceeded the threshold of 100,000 downloads.
The Facetones app creates an automated video slideshow using friends’ photos from social media web sites and then plays this video slideshow each time the user makes or receives a mobile call.
“Reaching 100,000 downloads within 30 days of our active marketing promotion is a significant accomplishment,” said Andrew Perlman, Vringo’s President. “The excitement of enhancing phone calls with a video slideshow of friends’ pictures from Facebook(R) is spreading rapidly. Our Facetones product has also proven attractive for our advertising partners, as we are currently filling nearly all of our rapidly expanding advertising inventory.”
Vringo recently closes a $2.5 million financing led by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures.
Facetones initially connects with Facebook and Vringo expects to integrate Facetones with other social media networks and photo sites in the near future. Facetones is a trademark of Vringo, Inc. and is not sponsored or endorsed by Facebook nor is Facebook affiliated with Vringo, Inc.