Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

2Go is Good 2Go

Well, let me just say, Chema Chajiuza, kibaya chajitembeza. It is rare I blog about a non-Kenyan product of any stature, but Good code is Good code. Give credit where it’s due. I am not an Anti-Mxit person as I admire anything Java, but The fact that Even After about 100 pages of Full-page Ads in Kenya it never really picked up, I knew there was some issue with it.

And so, I got a comment on this post about mXit and, as usual, I took it as spam and with a pinch of Zulu salt. The I decided to Install 2Go and give the biatch a test-run. I never looked back! Once you go 2Go, you never go back!

2Go at a glance

Well, you can read all about it here, on 2Go’s official website.

The post-Facebook Era

Facebook ‘Mobile App’ (read – Mobile widget – ok.. or APP for people who consider kindergarten quick-hack wizard-generated hello-world apps like AfroHotOrNot or Wazzup! Apps REAL apps) has received  75,792,183 downloads as at this second. This means 75,792,183 Java users went there all expectant and got egg-faced. Facebook has NO J2ME app. Just a Bookmarklet.

Step in 2Go!!

The most interesting thing about 2Go is the ability to contact ALL your 2Go, mXit and Facebook users from one Small, Sexy, Fast App. The data compression they use is out of this world. I would give my left nut just to see tail -f of the 2Go server logs.  Must be orgasmic. This Agnostic model is one of the real killer features in 2Go.

If 2Go was a Female App, she would already be pregnant with my twins.

I am building a Stock Exchange Social Network for the NSE. You can guess whose Model I will adapt, but I ain’t giving out any prizes.

I would not mind consulting to handle a local deployment of 2Go for Kenyan users. Also, 2Go would really benefit from the Pay.Zunguka Mobile payments solutions, to essentially go where Mxit did not in terms of virtual currency.