Mobile social networking with Juicecaster

JuiceCaster is a social broadcasting utility for cell phones. Juicecaster has been developed by Juice Wireless allows you to post pictures and video instantly from your camera phone to hundreds of popular social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and Blogger. Juicecaster is an embedded player which you can add to most of the social network websites. The content you upload can be flagged as private or public. The mobile application is available in the US for about $2.99 and the developers plan to launch a Java application next year. Unfortunately at the moment JuiceCaster requires a US mobile number to register. JuiceCaster can be run from your PC as well.

JuiceCaster has been around for about 2 years and most of the observers felt that the service lacked focus and a clear future. JuiceCaster has managed to make some inroads where Ojeez.com the leading business oriented social community for entrepreneurs, has teamed with has tied up with JuiceCaster so that JuiceCaster is available for free to the members of Ojeez.com.

Inspite of this JuiceCaster has been able to get a second round of funding to the extent of $6 million. The funding has been lead by 21Ventures. This comes at a time when Youtube is also gearing for the mobile market by allowing users to upload videos to their service. JuiceCaster has tough competition like Pickle and the only viable option for them seems to be to sell them to another big company.