We're pretty excited, so if you'd like to head over to Nakama.ca you can sign up and start using Nakama now. All you need is a cellphone. If it's a cameraphone, even better, and you'll be able to not only watch other people's pictures and videos, but publish yours up too.
We've been pretty focused on creating the best user experience... from super-simple upload of pictures and videos, from any phone, with any carrier, to being able to view pictures and videos (c'mon, you know you get bored on the train :-), also on any phone, on any carrier... we think we've got something that'll both help you, and help entertain you, and we'd love to have you take a look.
Now, with all the great stuff that's happened around our launch, what's been the one massive thorn in our sides?
Well, we've got Nakama.ca, but we wanted to register Nakama.mobi. In fact we have registered Nakama.mobi. The .mobi domain just opened up this morning. It was SUPPOSED to open up last week, but the cadre of genius (yes, that's sarcasm) that is dot-Mobi managed to screw that up. David's got a post on this dot-mobi debacle over here.
What's worse? The way the whole thing got assigned. We originally pre-registered the domain with EuroDNS. My advice? Don't ever use them unless you absolutely have to. Their service is terrible, and you can expect to wait several days for them to get back on customer service emails.
We ended up registering the nakama.mobi domain with a few other registrar's, including GoDaddy, and Dotster. Remember that we pre-registered with EuroDNS over a month ago. Which registrar managed to get us the domain? Dotster. Unbelievable. To their credit, the GoDaddy folks even gave us a phone call, told us that we didn't get the domain (heheheh), and asked if there was another name we wanted. After spending 15+ mns on hold with Dotster to find out what was going on, and days waiting for EuroDNS to reply to an email, we were amazed by Godaddy. Next time we need a domain, we're choosing them for sure.
Anyway, enough of me... go sign up for Nakama :-)
