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| Dec 12, 2011 | Fast Society Deadpools Its Messaging App, Preps Cameo For Launch | Fast Society today announced it will shut down its group messaging app and instead devote resources to its new app Cameo that will launch next month. Group messaging seemed like such a big opportunity a few years ago. But that was before Ap... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Mobile Messaging March Madness | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah. On Thursday, I used Yobongo all day, which... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Poll Results: Hurricane Party Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011 | After a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services ... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Poll: What’s The Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011? | In the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people's real-time check-in att... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Group Messaging: Why Now? | If 2010 was the year of location-based services, then 2011 is certainly the year of group messaging. With a slew of new group messaging apps dominating this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the big questions have been why now and wh... |
| Mar 13, 2011 | Do We Really Want to Talk to Strangers Based on Our Location? | With SXSW well under way in Austin, Texas, the servers behind apps like Beluga, GroupMe, Kik and FastSociety must be working overtime. After all, people like talking to their friends, right? In this same batch of apps, we’ve seen another ph... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Mashable’s SXSW Potential Breakout Apps: 3/13 Are Dogpatch Labs Companies | Redeem now As South by Southwest approaches, start-ups are polishing their applications and planning their launch parties. And today Mashable listed the “13 Potential Breakout Apps to Watch at SXSW 2011“. Of the thirteen companies to watch,... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Fast Society Is Ready To Party At SXSW (Exclusive Demo Video) | If you are a group texting startup worth your salt, you’ve got to have a new app ready for the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin. GroupMe, Beluga (which was just bought by Facebook), Kik, TextPlus, and offshoots like Yobongo will all be st... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | Yobongo’s Secret Sauce: Ambient Real-Time Communication | With the South By Southwest Interactive festival just a couple weeks out, everyone is asking “What will be the big app this year at ‘South By?'” One genre we’ve all been looking at this year is group communication. Apps like Beluga, GroupMe... |
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FAQ about FastSociety
What has the press written about FastSociety?
Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning FastSociety, among them “Fast Society Deadpools Its Messaging App, Preps Cameo For Launch” (Dec 12, 2011) and “Mobile Messaging March Madness” (Mar 27, 2011).
Is FastSociety still active?
FastSociety is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 13, 2011.