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Friday, September 10, 2010

SEMBUSE -"East Africa's first mobile social network"

The mobile phone application revolution is here with us and many applications are generated every other day. Sembuse is one of the mobile applications developed in Java that runs on mobile phones.It is a messaging and content platform that allows users to communicate more affordably as well as access varied content items directly on their mobile phones.Sembuse can be accessed and used from anywhere in the world. It allows users to communicate cheaply at 50 kenya cents(USD 0.006) per message using the SMS(sembuse messaging suite) with conventional text limited to 160 characters. Sembuse supports internationalization by way of being available in different languages which currently are English, Swahili, German, French and Chinese. Sembuse allows users to invite their friends from all over the world into their network and and has a myriad of  exciting free and premium content offerings that add value to users as they are delivered directly to the user's handset.The offerings include;customized news alerts, real time stock market alerts and news, rave crave that gives users a snapshot of the nightlife in their location, the gossip channel that allows users to submit and share gossip with their friends, the sports bar where sports fans can keep up to date with the happenings in their favorite sports and a video section with mobisodes across a variety of channels.So how can you acquire sembuse? Sembuse can be downloaded directly to a user's handset by pointing  the mobile phone browser to m.sembuse.com. Registration is FREE and one can immediately invite friends to their network.Sembuse also boasts of a proprietary hyper-targeting advertising platform-sembuse Connect that allows businesses,whether big brand names, small to medium sized enterprises and even individuals to connect with their target market directly on their handset.An individual can book their ManenoAds(text adverts) and choose their desired target group on the Sembuse network from the ease and comfort of their mobile phone wherever they are.
These are just but a few of the services that Sembuse offers.Users of Sembuse pay for their credits, content and other services via Mpesa, Zap, other regional money transfer/payment mechanics and if in the diaspora by credit card. Mobile phone usage in Africa is growing at a rapid rate and investors and business people should take a keen interest in this area and maximize on the great opportunities that exists.Sembuse is one mobile application that is surely going to have a great impact on how users interact with each other and engage brands at a personal  level and at affordable prices and in ways that can be measured.

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