Soocial manages over 8 million contacts
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. December 5, 2008— Today, Soocial announced that it is currently managing more than 8 million contacts. Soocial went into open beta last month at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. Since then Soocial has seen the user count grow to 15.000. Founder Stefan Fountain explains "It's great to see our product being used by so many people already. Since the release of our Outlook sync tool we've seen tremendous growth. Of course it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people that have problems with their address books. We hope to see a lot more people join and we want to help them regain control of their address books."
Soocial now has 15.000 users which means that the average user has over 500 contacts. This average might seem high but it proves how useful Soocial is to the heavy user. For these users it's always been a burden to manage their address books, especially when contact information had to be entered by hand. Soocial makes it easy for the heavy-users to manage larger address books; creating a clear overview and making it available from anywhere in the world.
The first step in solving the address book problem is to create one unified address book. This has been achieved by successfully connecting the three main areas where people use contacts - phones, the personal computer and online applications. Soocial takes care of storing and syncing contacts; providing users with an address book that is safe, clean and in-sync. Messing around with cables, vCards and wasting time entering one contact at a time is history; Soocial is an elegant, yet simple solution that works wirelessly.
Soocial wants to emerge as a real social network address book. This means your real life social network - with the people you would call to have a beer with --and no, not a virtual beer. Soocial is creating a system that will connect the people in your address book so that they only have to update their own details in order to update their connected contacts. This means you no longer will have to send your friends updates when you change your email address or phone number. Hopefully it also means you will not have to receive these emails either.
Currently syncing is supported between Outlook, Gmail, Mac, Highrise and over 400 mobile phones. Short term future plans include launching support for Blackberry, which coincides with the release of the first BlackBerry marketed for consumer.
