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Soocial launches service for unified address book

Arnhem, the Netherlands - April 16th 2008 — As of today, there is a new, secure and hassle-free solution for contact management. Soocial is launching its services today: synchronizing contacts between computers, mobile phones and web applications.

Soocial is an initiative created by Stefan Fountain and Daniel Spronk, owners of successful media agency Eight Media. The idea behind Soocial was born from their own experience with contact management. “We needed a bunch of new computers and migrating the address book was such a hassle. Then we thought, wait a minute, in order to really solve this problem we need to solve it for our phones too” explains Stefan.

Soocial is an elegant tool yet simple. Once you’ve registered you can start adding your connections. Soocial creates one address book, if you edit one contact it automatically updates it on all other devices linked to Soocial. It also creates backups and cleans doubles, making your life easier.

Currently Soocial is working in closed-beta and syncs with over 400 mobile phones, Gmail, 37Signals’ Highrise CRM app, and contacts in your Mac address book. Next step for Soocial is support for Outlook and also support for Blackberry, Windows Live Mail and Yahoo Mail.

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In the media

LifeHacker

November 14, 2008 — "Web application Soocial promises hassle-free contact management, seamlessly syncing contacts between a handful of potential buckets including Gmail, Outlook, the OS X Address Book, Highrise, and over 400 phones (including your BlackBerry)."

See: November 14, 2008

TechCrunch

April 16, 2008 — "...a little startup in the Netherlands called Soocial has been building a kick-ass contact management service that syncs all of your contacts between your desktop, cell phone, and a growing list of Web services. This company won one of the vote-in demo spots at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam (CEO Stefan Fountain pictured above), and their video demo featuring David Hasselhoff (shown below) stole the show."

See: April 16, 2008 and November 12, 2008

NU.nl (Dutch)

August 1, 2008 — 'Oprichter Daniel Spronk hoeft niet lang na te denken over een omschrijving van zijn website: "Soocial is een sexy gratis online dienst waarmee je contactgegevens beheert bij meerdere platforms waaronder je adressenlijst op je mobiele telefoon.'

See: August 1, 2008

The Next Web

November 12, 2008 — "Soocial, the Dutch Plaxo competitor, is officially launching today. They have been in closed beta for a while now but are confident enough about their technology to invite the general public now. Soocial enables you to sync your data between your computers, your phones and web applications like Gmail and other web based information managers."

See: August 08, 2008 and November 12, 2008

Quote magazine (Dutch)

October 2008 — "Soocial is een internettoepassing waarmee je probleemloos de adresboeken van al je apparaten, software en online applicaties synchroniseert"

See: October 2008