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Rseven Mobile Brings “Lifecaching” to SXSW Interactive 2011

Rseven Mobile Brings “Lifecaching” to SXSW Interactive 2011

Rseven now allows users to take snapshot of chronological time of activities and share on Facebook

Sunnyvale, CA, March 4, 2011 — Rseven Mobile, Inc., is bringing its “lifecaching” mobile application to the 2011 SXSW® Interactive Festival, March 11-15, 2001 in Austin, Texas. The Rseven mobile application which has already attracted more than 100,000 users enables consumers to record everything and sync all the data collected on their smart phones, including call logs, SMS, MMS, BBM, e-mails, photos, video, audio, contacts and calendar to a secure and private website. On the user’s private website, the phone activities are shown chronologically in a timeline format, so the user can browse and search through current and past activities of their mobile device. Rseven will be demoing it’s service in booth number 1126 on the SXSW Interactive tradeshow floor.

“We call Rseven a lifecache service”, explains Hisyam Halim, CEO and co-Founder of Rseven Mobile, Inc. “The mobile phone is our most personal device, and it is with us most of the time. It knows the calls we make, the SMS we receive, the pictures we’ve taken; in essence it’s the closest thing we have to a personal recorder of our daily activities. What Rseven does is preserve all those data and present them back to the user in a coherent and easy-to-use way on a secure, private website.”

In addition to recording and capturing everything on a user’s mobile device, Rseven allows a user to connect to Facebook and share different information captured, including images, calendars, video and more. Rseven has also added the ability to take a visual, chronological snapshot of their information and post to Facebook to give friends insight into their daily lives, versus through multiple Facebook posts.

Features of Rseven include:

  • Call and Location Recording – Record all your incoming and outgoing calls, and have it played back on our website rseven.com.

  • Match your phone contacts with Facebook friends – Select a contact from your contact list at rseven.com, and click Match to select which of your Facebook friends this contact is. This will automatically set their Facebook profile photo as the contact photo in your phone.

  • Share contacts and items using Groups – Create, manage and invite other people to join a Group. You can share contacts, images, calendar events and other items with Group members. A shared contact and calendar will appear in the group member’s phone when they next sync to Rseven.

  • Share to Facebook – Connect to and share images, video and other information captured on your mobile device via Rseven.

  • Geotagging – Tag information and show the locations of where you were at when you were making calls or using SMSs.

  • Data Management – Allows users to export your monthly data in a CSV file.

Rseven is a free service and currently supports Android , Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia smart phones. You can download Rseven directly from the company’s website or from the Android Market, BlackBerry App World, and the Nokia Ovi Store.

Please visit Rseven Mobile at SXSW Interactive at booth number 1126. To find out more about Rseven, please visit www.rseven.com


Contact:

Jenny Fernandez

512-650-5334

jenny.fernandez@porternovelli.com

Rseven Infographics: Mobile graph beats social graph

Some fun facts from the aggregate data in Rseven.

  1. Top users of Rseven on average sends & receives 30 SMS per day and talks on the phone for 30 minutes per day.
  2. Rseven users on average only talk/text with 10% of the people in their contact list in a month. That means the size of your phonebook is not a measure of your popularity & “connectedness”.
  3. Top Rseven users on average connects over the phone (talk/text) 1,692 times in a month (55 times/day). That is more than your average communications (poke, post on wall, message) with your Facebook friends. This shows that the mobile graph is bigger and stronger than the social graph.

More results from the Rseven user survey

Continuing from the previous post about the results of the survey, I want to share with you new features that you wanted to see & pay for in Rseven.

From the options given above, our users wanted the integration to Gmail the most. We have long wanted to somehow integrate the calls & messaging data from Rseven into Gmail so that you can have a seamless messaging experience. Our plan is to insert the calls & messages you had with a contact into the threaded view of your email exchanges with the same contact. How are we going to achieve that? The answer is by using Google Apps. I’ll let you know the details when we’re ready.

The next most wanted feature is an obvious one; transcription of recorded calls. We are exploring several options and all of them will require a form of payment, so this will be a premium feature. But some questions remain regarding the charging mechanism, since most of the transcription services charges per word transcribed. Which means Rseven user would need some control on which calls to transcribe & which ones to ignore. A bigger problem with recorded call is the fact that the Android platform still have limitations on call recording; it can only record from one side only (your side). Hence the conversation will be one-sided only and wouldn’t make much sense.

The bill checker feature will be a useful tool for users to keep track of their phone expenses. The idea is you can upload a soft copy of your phone bill and Rseven will add the contact name to the phone numbers in the bill. If there is no match, you can manually tag the phone number to a contact after comparing it with the call data in the Timeline. After that Rseven can group and sum the total cost for each contact per month. I bet this will be used by people that charges for their services by time such as lawyers, PR firms & consultants.

Since Rseven is a freemium service, we rely on a portion of ours users to upgrade to Rseven Pro to pay the cost of running & developing the service. However the results of the survey shows that a lot of users are willing to pay for the transcription services but not so much for the other features.  We will decide later whether we can offer those services for free and charge for higher usage.

Other than the options given you also requested some features not on the list. Some users wanted us to track the location of the person on the other side of the call. This is impossible to do, we can only get data that resides on your phone, not anyone else’s.

Thank you very much to the users that responded to our survey. Keep on using Rseven and email us at support@rseven.com anytime if you have other suggestions.

Results of Rseven User Survey

We’ve sent out our first user survey to our most active users earlier this month and this is what you said.

The most used and loved feature on the Rseven website is the Timeline. I’m not surprised by this as it is the core of what Rseven does – capturing your daily activities as recorded by your phone – and the best way to view these data is in a Timeline so you can go back last week, last month or even last year to see what you did, who were you with, where did you go and what were you thinking.

I was more surprised that lots of people use the Contact Manager, I suspect the ability to set your contacts as inactive is a useful feature because it removes them from the phone but you still keep it in the Rseven website just in case you need it later.

We received a few suggestions to add merging tools to help with duplicated contacts. This is a problem with many contact management tool and since we support multiple phones & multiple platforms, sometimes unexpected things happen. We hear you and now merge contacts is in our to do list.

Another popular feature is Conversation – very useful in recalling your exchanges with your contacts. We plan to make it easier for you to see the details of the calls by showing the Notes in the bubble and adding a unique icon for recorded calls.

On the mobile apps, Auto Backup is the feature used by most users – not surprising. Archive All which is a feature on Nokia app only was added to help you quickly archive everything now without waiting for Auto Backup to start or refreshing every item type. Now we plan to add this feature to all version of Rseven.

Call recording is also very popular but only available on Nokia & Windows Mobile apps. We received a lot of requests to remove the beep during the recording on Nokia phones – it’s something that we tried to do but currently it doesn’t remove it completely. I suppose we just have to live with it for the moment.

Thanks for all the responses. In the next post I will share with you what are the most requested features on Rseven.

Rseven is now available for Nokia N8 and other Symbian^3 phones

Now you can use Rseven on the latest Nokia phone the Nokia N8 (above) and other Symbian^3 phones such as the C6, C7 and the E7 with the full keyboard (below). Just search for Rseven in the Ovi Store on the phone or go to rseven.com/d to download it.