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Orbit: mobile phone book plus social networking updates
Orbit is a mobile app that brings together your Facebook and your phone book. It's a phone book at heart, but it shows your friends' recent Twitter and Facebook status updates, and allows you to create groups called "orbits." You can turn the level of social noise from each orbit or individual up or down according to your needs. Of course, you can also initiate a call, text or email from within the app.As long as Facebook won't allow phone numbers to be exported into your contact app of choice, something like Orbit seems to be the best solution for a light Facebook/phonebook combo. Being able to take a quick glace at a friend's latest Facebook or Twitter status before you call is a cool feature, but it's the customizable groups that really make Orbit appealing. Orbit's favorites list also changes dynamically, updating your favorite contacts depending on who you communicate with most often.
The only problem with Orbit is that it isn't out yet. It's coming to the iPhone and the BlackBerry before the end of the year, and if it turns out to be as useful as it looks on paper, it's going to have a permanent place on my iPhone's home screen.
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Charles said 4:55AM on 10-10-2009
You know what would be nice? if the company behind this didn't try to trick/force you into accepting a spam deluge: If you fill out the form and don't check the 'let us spam you endlessly and everyone we can sell your info to' and then click on 'proceed' it wll ask you to accept the terms and conditions, which is fair enough. What isn't fair enoug is that the checkbox that you click to tell them that you accept is also the one that opts you in to the spam.
Cheap tactic. And sure to turn me and lots of other people off the company
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christine loredo said 2:22PM on 10-13-2009
Charles, the legalize is not ended as an opt-in for spam. We are required by MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) guidelines to obtain permission to send an email or SMS (if you provided your phone number) when OrbitTM is ready for download. We will not use the information you provided except for the use described. Thank you.
(http://www.mmaglobal.com/bestpractices.pdf)