Introduction
FunMail's open API makes it easy to deliver visual messaging on any platform. Smart phones, Feature phones, Twitter clients, Instant Messaging platforms... If the project involves messaging, the FunMail API can make it visual.
FunMail is building on the popularity of text messaging by giving consumers a new, expressive way to visualize their texts, Facebook updates, and tweets. It's naturally viral, easy to use, and allows users to add personal expression to their messages. FunMail does not require any change in basic messaging habits, yet gives messages more impact and better context.
FunMail Services:
Robust, Scalable & Fast
- Highly-scalable, hosted platform in Tier 1 Data Center.
- FunMail Media Brain - intelligent learning system which constantly improves its capacity to understand a text message and offer up relevant visual content. Three main components:
- Relevancy Engine - intelligently matches SMS text with appropriate graphics
- Image Database - Ever expanding. open, moderated catalog of images supplied by Corbis, Getty, Flickr, Google Creative Commons, National Geographic and 20+ other content providers. Also supports moderated user-generated content that can be tagged for private use or public consumption.
- Phrase Corpus - robust database of messaging terms including common phrases, slang terminology, things, places, events, activities, and emotions.
- Rendering Pipeline - Generates the MMS message composed of the SMS text and image options to be sent to the FunMail client.
Handset OEMs
Differentiate your software offering to mobile devices through a value-added service that is central to the mobile operators's data revenue maximization efforts.
Deliver FunMail on the messaging client of both Smart phones and Feature phones. FunMail's easy-to-integrate API enables any OEM or messaging services provider to easily create their own visual messaging client.
Breathe life into older handset models by updating the messaging client.
License the FunMail client on a white-label basis, which includes full SMS, MMS, Facebook and Twitter support.
Other Messaging Projects
Any text can benefit from the extra impact of the FunMail engine. Got a hot new idea? Drop us a line and let us help you use the API to give more impact to your project.
Get Started!
Any developer can build a FunMail-enabled application, in many cases completely free of charge. Benefits to developers include:
- Integration of a free visual messaging delivery subsystem, vastly expanding the expressive nature of your application.
- The ability to create your own application-specific tags and hashtags, giving you a mini branded messaging system.
- Access to content from the Semantic Media Project.
The FunMail API is currently available on an invite-only basis. Request an invitation by contacting us at
api@funmail.com
