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August 3, 2007

EZ Gree to Add Location Based Services

According to this press release by KDDI, EZ Gree passed the 1 Million members mark this month. Originally launched in November last year, and hitting 500k users in March, the social networking site plans to integrate more carrier led mobile data offerings, notably location based services, going forward. That will be interesting.. 8-)

Via Analytica1st:

The mobile version of Gree is offered in a partnership with the second largest carrier in Japan KDDI au who plans to integrate its other mobile data services, including LBS, into the Gree platform. At the moment, besides the ordinary social networking stuff, EZ Gree’s users can send each other html-rich emails (Deco-mail) and play Flash-based mobile games.

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