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Esato has been around for over 10 years now and it is time to summarize
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This month,
World Wide Web celebrates 20 years. Esato is not that old, but the Esato web site has existed in half of those twenty years. In 2001, goto.com, go.com, netscape.com was more popular sites than Google. Even passport.com (remember Microsofts login service?) attracted more visitors than Google did. Wikipedia was founded in 2001 but Skype, MySpace, Facebook, Podcast, Flickr and Twitter was still unknow web sites and services.Esato is one of the oldest mobile centric web sites still around. We started up before iPhone, Android, Sony Ericsson, Windows CE and tablet was even though of. We have changed focus from being a site offering free ringtones and wallpaper, and later Sony Ericsson themes to being a site bringing
daily news from the ever changing mobile phone world. Back in 2001 mostly offline feature phones was sold such as the Nokia 3210 which sold in 160 million units alone. But
PDAs and more advanced smartphones started to emerge. My entry into the mobile phone world happen when the company I worked for in Norway was awarded the job to create Telenor's WAP portal. We got our hands on the first Symbian powered smartphone entering the country, the Ericsson R380. Telenor wanted a way to demostrate what this new WAP thing was to their customers. I created the Wapalizer WAP emulator in
perl which converted WAP pages into browser friendly HTML pages viewable on a desktop browser. I set up Gelon.net to host the Wapalizer and it was soon sold to UK based Fortunecity to join Wapdrive as the forefront to the mobile web. I left Gelon but wanted to do something similar and therefore started Esato.Esato would not have been what it is today without the contribution from the forum community. A big thanks to all of them. We should especcialy honour our moderators: First was
jh67 from Denmark, he is now editor of Zoom photography magazine in Denmark. Then came
tranquil, a very friendly guy from Norway.
GOwin and
arnoldc are both from the Phillippines. I had the pleassure to meet both of them and several other members during a one month island journey several years ago. Their acquaintance saved me a lot of trouble when we where about to leave the country and the 21 day visa had expired. It was also a memorable moment to join an eyeball meating with many Phillipino members back in 2002. We also have
Cytech from Sweden, the home country of Ericsson. The two currently most active moderators are
masseur from Australia, now living in England and
tranced from the Dominican Republic. All moderators has done a tremendous job to keep the spammers away and removing unwanted content. As you can see, our moderators and members are from all over the world. We currently have more than 214.000 members and we will shortly reach 3 million posts about mobile phones. Congratulations to you all!Esato has sold ringtones and video clips, been running a smartphone app store but those sources of income did not have any future. We are now relying on Google Adsense for making the money needed to run the site.Esato early years:
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Posted: 2011-08-09 16:20:24
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Congratulations to Esato!
Congratulations to the community!
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Posted: 2011-08-09 16:23:18
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We love Esato.
It is an honour to share thoughts with all Esatonians.
Cheers all:)
[ This Message was edited by: OffLineR on 2011-08-09 15:31 ]
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Posted: 2011-08-09 16:30:44
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Wow I can't believe this. Ten years are gone and Esato still on
I feel so proud of belonging to this site!
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Posted: 2011-08-09 16:33:39
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ESATO
am so proud to be part of this community since the first year
yes i hardly right something
but this is my home on the internet which must visit everyday
spent alot of time here
got so many ideas , experiences, it was and still will be great
help for me
[ This Message was edited by: bahraini on 2011-08-09 16:04 ]
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Posted: 2011-08-09 17:03:11
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Thank you laffen
for the great effort and time you are givving to this place
i know how hard it is to a keep it running and making it better and better
for a whole 10 years..
Sony Ericsson owe you a very big big big thank you
this site was one of the reasons to became popular
and beloved
this site helped them to keep the fans with them on
their darkest nights
this site still serve and help many people when SE itself
fail to help
All ppl envy us for ESATO
woow, i talked to much
[ This Message was edited by: bahraini on 2011-08-09 16:19 ]
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Posted: 2011-08-09 17:19:07
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Gosh that long already
Happy Birthday Esato !
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Posted: 2011-08-09 17:27:00
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yep!!
big Happy Birthday from me!!
I've been here a long time too..!
Ofiaich
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Posted: 2011-08-09 17:50:48
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happy anniversary, esato .....
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Posted: 2011-08-09 19:07:20
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Happy birthday Esato !
Davidsic from Belgium
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Posted: 2011-08-09 20:08:59
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