Pring (edit)

Pring lets you share what you're upto with your friends via your cell phone or online in 140 characters or less. We are currently running Open Beta Testing on Warid (9536), Ufone (414) and Zong (2323). During Open Beta, Pring is free. Pring syncs with your Facebook and Twitter accounts, has RSS bots for RSS-2-SMS updates, ability to do comments on updates like on Facebook or FriendFeed and has a complete web and SMS interface. Accounts can be public or private (customizable privacy settings). All public updates are visible in the public area which can be searched.

News:

News for the Masses!

e-Business will be using Online’s News and Pring‘s Reach to distribute news to millions of Pakistanis. Now Pringers can subscribe to news and customize topics of interest, creating a personalized newspaper. “Pring enables us access to unprecedented reach in Pakistan and with Online’s extensive coverage; this is a winning combination.” ...
Public Opinion via Pring

The question whether there should be more provinces in Pakistan or not has been a subject of heated discussions in political circles and the media. We at Pring thought its time to use Pring and conduct polls to gauge public opinion and bring it to the foreground. Pringers could participate ...
Crowdsourcing Dengue Fever Outbreaks with Pring

This year in 2011 Dengue (breakbone) fever hit the headlines in Pakistan. The disease spread rapidly in Lahore and its adjoining areas. The number of reported cases increased every day and created quite a stir because of lack of medical facilities and inadequate preventive measures. Heavy monsoon rains and high ...
Breaking the SMS Barrier!

Historically, we’ve kept updates, comments and private messages to 140 characters. This was because an SMS is 160 characters long, your username takes upto 15 characters etc. But things have moved on fast since then; almost all handsets support “SMS concatenation” which means they can send and receive long SMS ...
[Feature Day] Spam Control and #Hashtags

Killing Spam Oh how we hate spam! Everyone hates spam. In the begining of Pring, we were small and spam wasn’t a problem. Eventually as more and more people joined Pring the spammers came. A boy did they came in droves. The result was a lot of spam accounts being ...