Today we’d like to know how you heard about fring. Was it a good friend or your favorite blog? Was it already installed on your device or did you read about it in your daily newspaper?

We look forward to seeing the results of this weeks poll.

fring recently hosted the very first ‘friends of fring’ (FOf) event in Paris.

Despite a public transport strike, we pushed ahead in the cozy, Charlie Birdy’s Bar & Lounge in Montparnasse, where we enjoyed a great evening with our new friends of fring.

Following a welcome drink (or three) Neal presented the friends of fring program and gave our guests an exclusive behind the scenes look at some of the exciting things planned for the near future.

Neal and Marc (our very own French connection) then spent some time chatting and answering questions and listening to some great ideas and feedback.  Finally, as the evening drew to a close, Neal left our friends with some cool fring gifts.

Guys, this is the first of many FOF events to be held around the world.  If you’d like to apply, and get sneak previews of what we’re working one and even try new features for yourself before they are release, drop us a line at friends [at] fring.com.  Please include your full name, fring nick, mobile no., location and a few words of why you’d like to become a friend of fring.  Hope to meet you in person sometime soon as well!

Last week we asked South African fringsters: What fring features would you like to see on your WM device?

The results are in and the features wanted most by Windows Mobile voters are broken down below:

Thank you to everyone who voted, your feedback is much appreciated.

It was with great excitement that we recently reported that fring had been chosen as one of the Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2008 by ReadWriteWeb.com

Today readwriteWeb is also calling fring one of the Top 100 products in 2008.

To be included in the Top 100 products of 2008 is a huge honor for everyone here at fring, and we look forward to getting bigger and better in 2009.

Windows Mobile users listen up, this poll is just for you.

Looking forward to getting your feedback

The fring team

Last week we asked you: Which new features would you like to access from fring?

The results are in and it is clear to see which new features you want bad

The results are as follows: 50% of the you asked for Mxit, 15.38% want Twitpic , 11.54% would like to read fring blogs via fring and just over 23.08% asked for the following other features: Skype group chat, fring video calling, Emoticons, facebook chat and Gadu-Gadu.

fringsters your feedback is always appreciated. Thank you to everyone who supported this poll.

A few weeks back we launched the ‘fring Oscars‘ the idea is to recognize film-making talent and to reward fringsters who create films for the sake of  teaching others how to enjoy fring to the full extent of its features and to promote fring by posting video’s on the internet. If you haven’t already submitted your own video, you can send us the link today to: video@fring.com

Alternatively head over the special video page to view, vote, share ideas, give feedback and of course contribute your own clips!

See you at the movies!

The fring team