http://www.mckiss.com - the hottest free Social Networking service

Amidst the social networking dotcom frenzy, GSM Global follows Orkut, Ryze and hi5me by launching mckiss.com, a social networking service that combines personal connections with bloglinkers and forumER. The service is designed to make it easy for beginners to link their blogs to Mckiss. GSM Global hopes this will be a outstanding service that will bring a strong following to the social networking phenomenon.

(PRWEB) August 14, 2004 -->GSM Global recently launched Mckiss.com in the Pacific Rim.

Mckiss.com is the latest in the growing explosion of social networking services, sparked by orkut and okorko.com, which generated buzz and bucks from venture capital firms and other investors. Friendster received $13 million from blue-chip VC firms Benchmark Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Spoke Software, a business-oriented social networking facility, got a total of $12 million from Doll Capital Management. Others are expected to follow as more join in the bandwagon.

GSM Global's CEO, Leinad Nuv, hopes that the activity of Mckiss forum and blogLinker will create a niche in the social networking space currently dominated by rivals such as Hi5, Meetic, and others. "We intend to create a outstanding service that combines social networking with chatting & blogging, both hot online activities for the past six months," Leinad said. Leinad is confodent that this Free service will enhance the social life of the 30 million user market for social networking.

The service began as a brainstorm project by two Asian programmers, Leinad Wen and Helen Chau, who are now partners with a group of pacific rim investors of GSM Global. The service has since then attracted a select set of loyal users, starting from Asian friends of Wen, Chau and lee.

As for business models, Leinad says that Mckiss.com will support itself by advertising revenues. He further added that this will be a totally and absolutrly free service with a gurantee that they will never charge membership fees.