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Update: The name of the product is Mango - Manoparty is just the domain name
Confiz Systems recently unveiled their second product targeting the PK Market. Mango is a "SMS based social network" for the masses. It is somewhat similar to Twitter, but not focused on micro-blogging - rather they let people mass-send SMSes to their friends or to special groups.
A number of our readers are already aware of this startup, and some were quick to point out that this is very similar to Chopaal.pk. Both Confiz and Chopaal were incubated out of LUMS but there is no clear indication to imply that the idea was shared.
I’m not a big SMS user, but I can see this application taking off in this market. First of all they’ve designed it so that the app will spread virally because people can sign up and sign their friends in with just an SMS. The value to heavy SMS-users is the money they save from sending fewer messages to reach most of their friends, added privacy via number protection, and a more streamlined way to communicate with each other because you can just set up a "anyone for lunch" group rather than sending out a number of sms’s to different people. Groups based on different topics of discussion just seems to make sense.
For local Twitter users, Mango and Chopaal both offer a similar system (create a group and communicate) but with a local number instead of the UK number to sms to.
An example that is very similar in a nearly identical context is SMS Gup Shup based in India - although initially called a Twitter clone, they allowed people to join networks quickly and virally through sms alone (and without going through a website registration) which has led them to gain 7-times the userbase of Twitter. SMS Gup Shup recently raised $10M in funding from Charles Rivers Ventures and Helion Venture Partners
Good luck guys and keep us posted on user uptake.
| Written by Osama A. on 07/15/08 in PakStartup |
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July 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hmm I still miss commenting on the other post though!
Only if we didn’t have an electricity outage of one hour…I could! :S
July 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Well comments were disabled by Osama for the previous post…!
This is a much more objective an informative piece. Chopaal has been around for a while and has successfully deployed at LUMS. Confiz seems to pick up existing ideas and copy them. If they can do a better job, good for them. But some originality would be nice, innovation is the name of the game!
July 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I just tried it, SMS messages are not being sent, it is buggy. What is the point of an SMS social network if the site cannot reliably send SMS messages?
July 15th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Hi Javaid,
The form on the web is only to get signed-up for receiving a beta invite. You will receive an invitation when we feel are ready to invite more users.
Cheers!
July 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
@Javaid Originality? oh you mean twitter and SMS GupShup are ripoffs of Chopal? You sure you have your information right?
The key is NOT innovation. If it were innovation, google (search engine) would not exist. If it were innovation, Facebook would not exist. If it were innovation, Microsoft would not exist.
Innovation is good to have, but by far EXECUTION is key. Mango/Confiz have yet to show that they can execute, but by the looks of it, they’re on the right path.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Yes my friend originality. Chopaal has been running for quite some time now here at LUMS and this Mango has not only ripped off the idea from fellow LUMS entrepreneurs but has also leveraged from the programmers and technology research.
Green and White really does not do it’s homework. Wake up Osama, understand before you publish.
Use the original www.chopaal.pk and not the copy cat.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Sigh… The comments on this post really make me wonder if we will ever move forward as a nation, stop crying about competition and making false accusations without even trying to find out the facts.
I know the people behind Mango personally, and have been involved in some of their pre-launch product discussions. It is very disheartening to see competitors using foul-play to ruin its reputation.
Did Rozee ever cry about the launch of BrightSpyre or RiteMoves or the other numerous Pakistani online job boards?
July 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Well Ahsan, that’s exactly the point. Maybe Rozee should have cried about it. Check out Ritemoves sometime… you’ll find that they have copied the html, javascript code, forms, workflow and product types and pricing model directly from Rozee. It’s a 100% clone of Rozee.
I’m all for ethical entrepreneurship. In the long run, me-too sites never succeed because they lack the inspiration and fire of the originals that they copied. Every one wants to make a quick buck.
The issue is, fine you can copy once. Will you keep playing catch up with the competitors you are copying? At some point, you’ll need the fire to innovate and offer a unique value proposition.
It saddens me as well. Programmers don’t think twice about taking source code from one employer to the other. Content writers don’t think twice about plagiarizing. And entrepreneurs don’t bat an eye when ripping off someone else’s idea. This is much more prevalent now in Pakistan than abroad. Why?
July 15th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Javaid, so what if they copied? Are you afraid that it might become a competition to Chopaal?
From what I have seen so far after trying both services that both of these services makes it hard to communicate the ACTUAL idea.. the beauty of twitter is in its simplicity.
And admit this: the stage that our country is in you should be glad that we are copying good ideas from others and implementing them in pakistan. At least that means there are ppl who are doing something. That gives you the chance to innovate and be that 1% of innovators that exist in every country.
Now go forth and innovate!
July 15th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I am getting headaches now!
Every artist copies, great artists steal.
And honestly no one cares who came first, its about which one is the best offering to the common people.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Just for the record, I have absolutely NO affiliation with either of the sites mentioned. I think it was assumed I was involved with one of them.
I’m not afraid if it becomes competition to chopaal, frankly I don’t care. I am worried about this trend of copying and disregarding ethics.
Why is Green and White highlighting a copy cat site and not the original?
Osama, your motives are once again suspect. You censored my comment where I pointed out that you were receiving advertising money from BrightSpyre and failed to disclose it. This is factually undisputable yet you chose to delete it.
Ethics, my friends, simple ethics. If we don’t worry about it and point it out, we will turn our vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem into a cess pool. Who will invest in Pakistan if we can’t be trusted?
July 15th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I am enjoying Osama bashing.
Javaid. I am not going to say something just for sake of saying but aren’t you just taking it too far?
When Microsoft bought that purana-DOS no one complained. When they bought pointer device now known as MOUSE from Xerox no one cried foul. When Yahoo incorporated features Google had for ages (the site advisory) no one made a hue and cry! When Open Office came out with “identical” and even better option to MS Office it was infact hailed as a new thing!
People want new things which improve their lives or give them a better entertainment outlet, and clearly we don’t see violation of ethics here!
Perhaps it would have been one if these mango-party guy would have stolen some material off the computers of the choopal.pk to start their service!
Come on take things slowly and give poor Osama some rest for today!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Btw I think I know someone who is coming up with a similar idea, with some extra puffs and stuff…will share when its in beta or release mode.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Ujmi my friend so you are saying it’s ok to steal, everyone does it. We all love to get things easily as long as we are not on the receiving end? Tough luck huh?
Atleast give credit to the original idea. And yes by all means innovate. Don’t just do the same thing and call it a mango.
BTW Osama doesn’t deserve a break. He censored my comments which did not contain anything offensive but simply exposed the fact that BrightSpyre is paying him for ads on this site. Again, it’s about ethics which are obviously in short supply on this site.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
so Javaid what is the original idea here? Should Osama credit Twitter or Friendster to actually seed the idea of social networking?
as per your comment on BrightSpyre paying Osama, well you present your proof and we will make sure Osama responds to it. Without any proof you are just claiming dust…
July 15th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Ob, well said.
Javaid - here’s an idea. If you want to continue with a ludacrious lie, try to prove it.
I mean heck, IF you do prove this then I should probably have more money than I think I do - which means I could buy more gadgets than I think I can?!
July 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Wow, the web site is getting lot of traffic.
Any how I am disappointed the way Osama had written his last entry but then he is not a professional writer and is just like one of us so I would ignore it.
I have been a reader of this site for over a year and I do not know any of the companies or persons but I have felt that many of the times Osama posts are very biased for certain companies but then again it is natural. This is his private venture so he is free to do what ever he wants.
I have used one of the product(ringpakistan.com) of rozee networks for last 3 years and I would give it 10/10. They have awesome product with perfect site and 100% reliability and their staff is very good if you consider they are based in Lahore. If I go by my experience then I would not have second thought why did they get project. Mind it I have worked for the best of the best hi-tech companies of the world so its not that I am not technology aware person.
Regarding the marketing statement, that’s how it is done all over the world. That’s what M$ did to kill Netscape. That’s how Apple is doing with iPhone. VMware fired its founder CEO last week due to lack of marketing skills and hired ex executive of M$ to handle the competition from MS hypervisor. If you just go by product then then there is _NO_ competition b/w M$ and VMware product but still VMware CEO got fired because she could not sell it product as well as she was expected to(given that she had 20 times better product).
And I also find very naive to blame ATP to publish some post. ATP is not in fugitive media so I don’t think they verify the source of any post. They rely on their readers as you do so please do not say “ATP sold its soul” It just sounds very bitter and unethical.
All, please take a chill pill and keep the debate business and don’t take it to personal level.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
And here i was thinking, we are all grown up, mature people around here?
@Javaid: Lets see your proof.
@Osama:
“Otherwise with your IP address I can and will sue you for libel - trying to put my name in disrepute… as someone said, its an easily winnable case.”
Come on man, exhibit some maturity. We all love g&w, for what it has grown upto ( MashaAllah ). And here we see you, threatening your readers. This would be the last thing you would ever want to do. Is this what you call open debate, fair play ?
You have certainly disappointed me and many others who were expecting some open heartedness and respect from your side.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Ahsan,
Personal attacks cross a line - we can debate the issue, the post, or writing standards all we want but then if someone attacks me personally, that too with outrageous claims that can be settled easily in court, then I have protected rights to seek that option if I must.
But on the other hand you’re right - there’s no point to stooping down to the level of insanity - I’ve changed my comment above.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thanks Osama, appriciate your objective approach.
Now, thats more like it
lolz @
“I mean heck, IF you do prove this then I should probably have more money than I think I do - which means I could buy more gadgets than I think I can?!”
July 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Funny comments. Please add this to the list of things I am concerned about. Here are people wasting precious time arguing over who built what first. Grow up people. There’s no such thing as stealing an idea. Ideas are a dime a dozen and it is the execution that matters. So what if both ideas have come out of LUMS? So what if one group stole the idea from the other group? Microsoft stole from Apple stole from Xerox. Thank God for the stealing and hence the personal computer revolution.
Honestly, I’d like to put up plans for building better clones of both sites. There’s no rocket science. The winner will be the one who emerges with the most innovative and useful feature set and hence a bigger market share. Oh and I’d love to see both services make money off of this.
Good luck!
July 16th, 2008 at 1:05 am
I am part of the chOpaal team and would like to add my two cents.
As someone rightly pointed out, competition is never bad. The market is so big that chOpaal, Mango, and a number of other providers can even co-exist. After all, companies like Warid and Telenor are making money despite heavy competition and now Zong has entered as well. So, in terms of competition, we welcome Mango!
As for the rip-off part… What’s done is done. The claims of Mr Javaid Ghani are pretty accurate and I have no clue who he is so if he could enlighten me? But, let’s not fight over mango or no mango… after all, it’s just a mango.
We have over 2500 users.
We’ve sent over 1.1 million messages.
And now, we’re in public beta - anyone can join.
www.chOpaal.pk
July 16th, 2008 at 1:10 am
asim, you guys impress me a lot. i wish you best of luck. keep up the good work.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Asim, quick question for you. Can you defend that chopaal is a unique idea? and mango copied it?
you just made a claim accusing mango of copying chopaal.. i want to knw how you came down to that conclusion.
PS: I have nothing to do with either companies..
July 16th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Thanks, younas.
chOpaal, or SmartCast as it was codenamed, is Dr. Umar Saif’s idea. The aim was simple: a collaboration platform over SMS. The idea came when he went to Balakot after the earthquake for rehabilitation work. Lack of a common communication platform caused a lot of problems for the workers and agencies. Cellphones were still operative in the region so a forum of sorts over SMS would have really helped. That is precisely the need chOpaal serves: a dynamic, virtual forum over SMS.
Twitter is friend-based, chOpaal is interest-based. You can join any number of “tags” and you can “tag” your message with any number of tags to send it to those tags. This is something Twitter or even SMS Gupshup don’t have (I haven’t seen their new model - the previous one didn’t allow multiple groups).
As far as proving Mango copied us, well… like I said, there’s no point going there. If it helps, you can assume they didn’t.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Dear Javaid,
First of all, your accusation that BrightSpyre pays G&W needs some proof otherwise, you are setting yourself up for getting sued.
Secondly, BrightSpyre has been around longer than any of the job portals in Pakistan. Even Rozee agrees to that. So you better get your facts rght before you make baseless accusations and false facts!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Mr. Osama even I have seen Brightspire ads on G&W. Maybe better to just explain relationship than causing misunderstanding by denying?
July 16th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Ok reading today statements of “suing” over claims…ok need for a chill pill on cordial and mutual basis both sides!
And also come on, who gets sued in Pakistan and walk away with anything
?
Finally, I liked the attitude of Choopal guy! Good going! Wish you all the best with that sort of positive attitude!
July 16th, 2008 at 11:30 am
@Asim - Exaxtly what is the difference between friend-based and interest-based? On Twitter, friends are tags and on your system, the group names are tags. Point being, this idea is not owned by, or was even conceived by Dr. Saif.
In any case, good work guys. My sources tell me the chopaal.pk guys started the service in their second year of college. Pretty darn amazing I must say. This puts you up there with Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt (Firefox), Max Levchin, and so on, when they were all 19 or less.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Wow, I had no idea this article would become so controversial. Seems to have become a Mango vs Chopaal vs Brightspyre vs Rozee vs Osama debate! Anyway, I will not get into the originality debate on this forum.
@ujmi - it’s chopaal, not choopal
@Asim - it’s good to see chopaal taking competition positively. Good luck to you guys!
@Osama - don’t worry too much, these kind of claims are common in the tech world http://tinyurl.com/5hv6dw
July 16th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Javaid Ghani ….
I am Faisal Co Founder and CEO from BrightSpyre. We do not have any affiliation with Green and white and Osama Hashmi.
Osama has just highlighted on thing; there are many more to come…
Here are my contact details
Ph: 0334 55 11124. If you have courage do call me and talk something with a proof of the allegations.
Faisal Chohan
Co Founder and CEO BrightSpyre
July 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Javaid - you’re mistakingly taking ads delivered via an ad-serving program (Click Click) as a direct proof of transaction between G&W and BrightSpyre.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
My intention was never to malign anyone but simply say it how it is with facts and not conjecture.
First, Atif, I never, at any point, said that BrightSpyre has not been around the longest of the current job portals. It has. However, it is unfortunate that BrightSpyre has lost it’s leadership position despite being in the market a good 5-10 years before the others. Poor execution has placed it at #3 at best. Mustakbil is the nearest competitor to BrightSpyre at the moment and by all indications is ahead. You have accused me of saying something that I did not. If I stoop to your and Osama’s level I would threaten to sue you for that. I will make no such ridiculous threat. I’m here for an intelligent discourse where we express opinions and do not threaten each other. These threats are very immature.
Osama, everyone can see BrightSpyre ads running on Green & White. I’m amazed that you are denying this and infact censoring comments that state it. What are you trying to hide. You asked for proof, well it’s not needed. However I did take a screen shot and I’m sure many of your readers have seen the same thing that I do. Here’s a link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28642843@N04/2673867008/
Are you still in denial? Are you not in control of ads that appear on your site? Is this a free ad as a favor to a friend at BrightSpyre? No matter how you try to spin it, there is a prejudicial relationship between you and BrightSpyre and it should be disclosed upfront. That’s all I’m saying.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
These are ads delivered through clickclick.pk network.
Our ads are at Nation, teeth.pk, greenwhite.org but we do not have any direct linkages with all these.
These are baseless points and every reasonable person can understand this.
Faisal
BrightSpyre.com
July 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Faisal, thank you! Finally someone has admitted that BrightSpyre ads do indeed appear on Green & White. It’s kind of silly denying the obvious, but I appreciate your honesty here.
Does BrightSpyre pay for these ads? Does Green & White benefit from revenue received as a result of these ads? Can Green & White not control which ads appear on it’s website?
Ethics mandate that a disclosure is made for articles relating to BrightSpyre and its competitors. There is an obvious bias and conflict of interest. BrightSpyre can choose to pull its ads from G&W’s pages and this will hurt G&W’s ad revenue. Why is it so hard to see the issue here?
Osama, please don’t censor this comment like my past comments on this topic, it undermines your credibility.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
oh please! Is there an end!?
On my blog, if I write an entry related to American Army, Google Adsense quickly puts an advertisement of GoArmy there! If I write on religion it puts ad of join falana Church .com in it….I am not undermined by that being called paid for writing an article! Anyway its turning rapidly into a futile discussion…
Tayyab: Thanks for the correction
July 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Better is to be wise than to be foolish.
We have a partnership with clickclick.pk and BrightSpyre was the second publisher on that network. Now every day new publishers are added on that network and our ads are distributed on all of new added sites.
If you do not want to see our ads on nation.com.pk teeth.pk the should we remove these from all these places. You need to be realistic with your thoughts.
Secondly we our partnership with clickclick helps us running the ads on publisher network without any cost involved at this stage.
Faisal
July 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I have shared my contact information with all the community to speak on the behalf BrightSpyre.
Faisal
July 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Javaid, I’ll indulge you a last time
>>Does BrightSpyre pay for these ads?
No, its part of the clickclikc cross-publisher promotion.. every publisher gets the logos of the other publishers.. its like a links-exchange program.
>>>Does Green & White benefit from revenue received as a result of these ads?
No revenue.
>>>Can Green & White not control which ads appear on it’s website?
No.
We’ve outsourced ad placement to clickclick and other ad managing partners to maintain an ethical distance between editorial and advertising.
Ok, now my turn.
Explain the baseless lies you’ve written up on the flickr page - especially the one about me writing favorable posts about Brightspyre - obviously you haven’t been reading GnW for long.
Please let your bitter self come to terms with this and move on.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
It’s very different from Google my friend. Google has several million advertisers and dynamically matches content with ads. You don’t even know the company that is advertising on your website.
There are only three or four different ads running on Green & White. ClickClick is a network that both Green & White and BrightSpyre are amongst a handful of members. Green & White is in control of which ads run and is promoting BrightSpyre. Osama was completely denying that there was *any* relationship. This is dishonest.
Look, I’m just pointing out a problem here. G&W articles are biased, relationships are not disclosed, comments are censored when Osama doesn’t agree with them, content is often factually incorrect or filled with half truths. When different opinions are expressed, Osama threatens with law suits. He frequently gets the story wrong — this article should have been about Chopaal and not Mangos.
Freedom of speech is not just for you Osama, it’s for your readers as well.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Osama, you state that G&W cannot control which ads appear on your pages through ClickClick. This is a lie. You can. Are you going to ask me to prove this as well? Anyone can contact clickclick and find this out.
You just said that there *is* cross promotion between you and BrightSpyre. Should you not have disclosed this upfront instead of censoring my comments?
July 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Sure Javaid - prove that too… Here’s the contact info of the CEO: amer@bramerz.pk
Better yet, just keep hissing and whining authoritatively because it seems to make your life better and obviously it helps to prove legal issues definitively.
Its not even worth responding anymore. Good luck with your world view.
And oh - we dont need your divine presence to point out problems with GnW - my email address is osama@greenwhite.org - if the community ever has an issue, all they do is email and be a constructive force for this place.
Bye troll.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“@Asim - Exaxtly what is the difference between friend-based and interest-based? On Twitter, friends are tags and on your system, the group names are tags. Point being, this idea is not owned by, or was even conceived by Dr. Saif.”
On Twitter, I myself am a tag and my friends are members of that tag, right? To do that on chOpaal, you create a private tag and tell your friends to join it.
But, unlike Twitter, you can maintain “multiple” tags on chOpaal. If I create a tag called “mango” and random people join it, I can safely assume they’re all interested in mangoes.
There is no concept of “friend” in chOpaal. Members of a tag (friends or random people) are “interested” in that tag. This is what makes chOpaal interest-based.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Javaid
Let me clear this thing for your and all others’ information.
I am working for Bramerz, the company behind clickClick.pk, which is launched as Pakistan’s 1st Online Ad Network.
We have just started serving ads a couple of days back and along with other partner publishers, also have BrightSpyre and Green & White on our network of publishers.
As part of our agreement, there is also a possibility of ads being cross-sold on partner websites and that is exactly the case happening here. G&W is not making any money out of the BrightSpyre ads being served on the website and its a co-promotional activity.
So I urge you to please set your record straight and not accuse G&W or BrightSpyre for running some paid ads.
For any further clarification, please visit clickClick.pk or contact me at
eMail: amer@bramerz.pk
Cell: 0300-8450870
Cheers
July 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Troll? How old are you? Five?
July 16th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Amer, can Green & White not prevent BrightSpyre ads from appearing on their website by communicating this to you? Can’t they choose which ads not to display?
July 16th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Javaid,
i am just putting in some links of articles from archives you should read before making any comments about biases,
1. Choopal was not covered by him because it was a closed beta for lums student only for a long time. another startup by Umer Saif we covered also the one on citizen journalism
http://greenwhite.org/2007/10/10/bumpincom-real-time-collaborative-browsing-and-socializing/
http://greenwhite.org/2008/06/16/seenreport-is-a-joint-venture-of-umar-saif-and-the-2s-complement-folks/#comments
2. Regarding bias against rozee here are the coverage you should read
http://greenwhite.org/2006/09/21/kudos-series-2-on-rozee/
http://greenwhite.org/2006/10/31/rozee-again-a-mature-recovery/
http://greenwhite.org/2007/04/24/rozees-job-fairs-seem-to-be-disruptive-for-universities/
3. Also the article you are continuously bashing the one about university job boards from bright spyre was not written by Osama, it was written by Mansoor.
just read through those, and one last thing about criticism and relation ship, most of us daily criticize situation in our country law and order, inflation but that does not mean we stop living here. you usually criticize some thing you feel strongly about.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
so has anyone in here read the book “The Case of Exploding Mangoes” ?
Looks like a lot happening around mangoes these days…hmmmmmmm
July 16th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
alright you folks listen up..
those who claim that choopal is different from twitter i suggest you go back and take a good look at what twitter is doing and what choopal is doing.. and then go read about www.smsgupshup.com — an indian company that is doing what chooopal is trying to achieve. Seriously, i have been following web2.0 for a long time now and as far as I am concerned choopal aint a new idea.. its a new execution but not a new idea.. no big deal.. i still think that it is good to implement choopal..
as for roozee vs brightsprye, both suck. Simple and straight forward lol..
no really both are doing their best to work hard on a problem that needs a solution.. One will get more marketing on xyz.com and the other would get more tv time.. doesn’t matter they are both trying to achieve something.. learn to live with competition.
now lets go towards acquisition on Osama:
Unless i see a clear evidence from javaid that brightsprye is paying osama to say good things i don’t buy this whole kachra.. so zip up and lets move on…
July 16th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Thanks for the links. Please note that Mango is closed beta whereas now Chopaal is open to the public.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Thanks for the links. Please note mango is in private beta whereas Chopaal.pk is open to the public.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
ok…
July 30th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
i think now ppl are doing in rite direction in pakistan and they are coming out with products rather than making service oriented projects only. i’ll give credit to chopaal as it gave pioneer concept in pk market. Least i know that both guyz are big names in CS department @ lums so we can expect great marketable ideas.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Ok I just have been using the Mango for few days now and here is my input!
MANGO is damn slow! And honestly its very boring too!
Osama, will you like me to write about it? (kindly email me)
August 7th, 2008 at 10:42 am
would love to read the feedback of a consumer of mangoparty.
ujmi, i hope osama agrees to let you write the post otherwise can you share your comments via comments here !!!
October 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
OH SO much Crticisim .. :@
October 30th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Hay wait a minute guys, did you forgot one thing:
Today, Chopaal is a delivery bomb. It takes 24 hrs to deliver an sms. thats B*******.
May be you guys created it for Lums only….
October 30th, 2008 at 3:34 am
And as far as Mango is concerned, could someone plz invite me there. its a beta!!!
I cant even see the “invite me” form on the homepage. cause here is what the FAQ says:
“We are in private beta and you need to be invited by another Mango user to start using the service or you can fill the form on our home page to get an invite.”
where is the form?? its like “where is the pulp” advertisement!!
November 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
im owais any sms my personal cell no.03212203321