SG Malls, through collaboration with Chlkboard, now informs our users on the current nearby sales. , These nearby sales are accessible in the ‘Sales’ section of the application, and its contents are provided through Chlkboard’s API. 2359 Media, the publisher of SG Malls, is the first app developer to have a published app that uses the Chlkboard service.

Founded by Saumil Nanavati and Bernard Leong, Chlkboard is a location based mobile promotion platform that allows advertisers to alert the customers within their vicinity about their promotions through mobile phone. Chlkboard benefits both advertisers and customers, advertisers can target their customers more precisely and customers can avoid the cost of searching.

2359 Media sees this as opportunity to improve the services provided for our existing customers on the application, and has been delighted by the level of service that Chlkboard provides. “Not only does Chlkboard respond to our request quickly, the advertising revenue derived from Chlkboard is also higher than that of any other third party ad networks,” said Wong Hong Ting, Co-Founder of 2359 Media.

Saumil passing Wenhan the Ad revenue for June 2010

“Unlike other ad networks that we have worked with so far, Chlkboard has been most prompt in paying out to publishers like ourselves,” added Zhou Wenhan, Co-Founder of 2359 Media, who was photographed taking a cheque from Saumil earlier this week.

About 2359Media
2359 Media is early stage funded startup with aims to revolutionize how content is
distributed and consumed over mobile devices. We believe that the world is at the cusp
of a mobile revolution where the mobile phone will increasingly be the forefront of how
people consume and interact with content and 2359Media will be a
key driving force of this revolution.

Ninja Wanted

Ninjas Wanted
2359 Media is hiring mobile and web Ninja developers who are
excited to be part of the team that will help bring about this
content revolution.
Each Ninja will be taking ownership of a single mobile platform and
will be responsible for developing high quality, user-friendly
applications that will aid users in consuming, interpreting and using
information.

Ninjas Profile
? Like all Kick-ass ninjas, we set very high expectations for your work. You need to be
self-motivated to produce the best piece of art possible within an impossible
timeframe. (PS: It will really help if you have a Black Belt in general programming
concepts and techniques)
? 2359 Media is a mobile company and all our Ninjas are expected to have a high
interest in the mobile industry. We are looking for Ninjas interested in one or more
of the following platforms
o iPhone – Objective C
o Android – Java
o Windows Mobile – C#
o Blackberry – Java ME
o Web – Ruby on Rails or PHP
o Symbian S60 – Symbian C++, Nokia WebRunTime

2359 Media’s 20% Time
The 20 percent time is part of our philosophy here, enabling Ninjas to spend one day a
week working on projects that you are excited about and will make a difference in the
mobile space. You can use the time to develop something new, or if you see something
that’s broken, you can use the time to fix it.

Apply
Send your resume to
huntingninja@2359media.com.
Fresh Graduates are not only encouraged; we are also very willing to train you into the next Kick-ass Mobile Ninja.

Trainee Ninjas (Internship) positions are available too.

Please see this file for more details.
Hunting Ninjas.PDF

http://2359media.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Hunting-Ninjas-v21.pdf

We are so thrilled that we had a chance to join Incubation Week. We were sort of late entries because word got to us late. We only signed up on the friday before the week itself.

But we did make it for the event and rushed out a 60% feature complete version for the judging day. A week later, we were pleasantly surprised that we won!

Special thanks for Chris Chin at MS who is in charge of introducing developers to the Win Mo 6.5 platform and to Nick Randolph, a Microsoft MVP, whom was our trainer. In addition to the training, the experience sharing that took place between attendees added fresh perspectives and sparked new ideas for possible mobile applications.

From a development perspective, the platform was relatively easy to pick up, and by judging day, the SGMalls WinMo version was 60% feature complete. Right now we are focused on polishing the UI to ensure that the WinMo users have a good an experience as our iPhone users.

Some screenshots to keep you keeps salivating for the release:) If you are interested to be a beta tester, send an email to feedback@2359media.com

As some of you might know, we ran a lucky draw for a free ticket to UnConference 2009 on the SG Malls application over the past 2 weeks. The draw was conducted by generating a random number and matched to the relevant entrant.

And the winner is….
Name: Ms Loo
Mobile (last 4 digits): 4282

For all other contestants, do still come for UnConference 2009. Click here to get a 20% discount off of the UnConference2009 ticket. Hope to see you there!

2359 Media is chosen as one of the start-ups to have the opportunity to pitch on stage during UnConference 2009. The pitching session will start at 2:40pm, and we will be the 2nd to pitch. Do come to UnConference 2009 to see us and the other exciting start-ups.

UnConference 2009
The unConference is Southeast Asia’s #1 participant-driven, startup-focused event for the web industry. Modeled after Silicon Valley culture, the event attracts industry thought leaders, entrepreneurs, developers and professionals from around Asia. The highlight of unConference is the product-demo segment: where startup founders seek to impress investors and the audience with their latest innovations. A number of our past unConference product-demo alumni have gone on to be nominated in BusinessWeek’s annual Top 25 Asia Entrepreneurs for both 2007 and 2008.

As a key step in the start-up process that a technology entrepreneur would take, 2359 Media released our website and blog amidst time spent on product development and marketing. Do take some time to browse around our website and leave comments should you have any. Enjoy.

On March 10 2009, the folks at the Singapore Technology blog, Techgoondu.com, organised an event named “Meet The Techgoondus”, aimed at helping tech start-ups gain visibility on the traditional media by bringing together the two at the event.

With Hong Ting being a Techgoondu reader, 2359 Media signed up for the event, and for the very first time, presented about the huge potential of Mobile Advertising given that the confluence of factors pointing towards endless possibilities. Wenhan too presented about SG Malls, our iPhone application, and the additional features that are to be released in the near future.

Slides of the presentation are embedded here:

On 23rd February 2009 at about 10 a.m., the founding team of 2359 Media got together, excited by the prospects of the mobile advertising industry across Asia-Pacific. Do check back for the latest news on what we’re up to or follow us on Twitter @2359media.