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Rebtel is a new way to make international calls* from your mobile phone at super low rates.
Rebtel gives you local numbers where you live that connect you to your international contacts. Instead of crazy per-minute charges or rip-off calling cards, you just pay your mobile phone operator for a local call, and pay Rebtel a tiny fee on top of this for the international part of the call.
This means that a Rebtel call is like any other international call – but much, much cheaper!
Get the “Rebtel” site in Squace, click here

*You can currently join Rebtel if you live in any of this countries

To make a call and sign up for Rebtel do following:

1. Open the Rebtel site and click “Sign up to Rebtel” (or log in with your Rebtel PIN code, if you have an account already).

2. Fill in the registration form; Name, E-mail and choose a PIN code.

3. Now you can see all your Rebtel contacts, add new ones and call them via Squace.

So just add the international numbers of your friends, dial the local number and talk, paying much less for these calls.

Start calling now, Try 10 minutes for FREE

“Rebtel is unique in that it allows users to call India from the U.S. for the price of a local call between friends in the U.S. for just 5 cents a minute.” – India Journal, (May 30, 2008)

“… there are a handful of services available that allow you to make cheap and sometimes even free international mobile-to-mobile phone calls. Rebtel is one of those services, and trust me, you’ll be glad you found it.” - Yahoo! TECH, (October 31, 2007)

27 August, 2008 (10:18) | 2.0, Applications, Mobile Internet, Rebtel | By: Squace

Since the number of Squace users is growing really fast now, it is the right moment to have a closer look into the speed of the system and afterwards to improve its performance. Therefore, we have focused our engineering team on the performance, which would be our new goal for next few months. We are continuously working to decrease loading time and increase user experience. We want to make Squace work faster, faster and faster.

We have started working towards new short term strategy for few weeks now, and we already have got very positive results. In the last few weeks we have speeded up our web page. It works much faster now, check it out yourself!

However, there is no time for break in the Squace team. Now we have to face even more challenging task, which is to make Squace work faster in the phones. This project is under deep development for the moment, but in the soon future our users will be able to experience faster mobile browser - Squace.

20 August, 2008 (16:31) | 2.0, Applications, Mobile Internet | By: Squace

Discover new content
Lot’s of new and exciting content is added to Squace every day. The first square in the last row of the grid in the mobile phone is called Discover content. Go there to find stuff that you like! You can also title search by clicking the magnifying glass or tag search.

Something for everyone
Squace gives you tons of useful and fun information: blogs, recipes, news, sports, gossip, jobs, weather, and much more. In addition to our international content there is lot’s of locally adapted content for users in e.g. India, Iran, Spain, Sweden, Russia, UK, and USA.

Share a square.
Squace team

Click to add to your stuff:
Mashable.com CNN.com ESPN.com ZDNet.com Beijing 2008

17 August, 2008 (17:25) | Applications, Mobile Internet | By: Squace

If you are traveling westwards, and more specific, to Silicon Valley, you will gain some new perspective such as people seams to line up in front of stores named Apple (Only in the bay area not in LA) and that European cash is worth a lot more.
If you also are working within the Mobile Web 2.0 (ouch, I’ll probably get sued if I’m not mention the strange fact that Mobile Web 2.0 is a registered trademark by Verizon - a total contradiction to me. Read some more about this FACT by Oliver Starr), as I am, you’ll find some other curious things in the most advanced high tech area in the world.

1. They don’t have 3G coverage at Stanford University! August 22 2008. I think the 3G network covered my university in Stockholm like seven years ago.

2. The carrier walls are higher than the Berlin Wall (dismantled 1989). Among other things, you can not automatically send SMS by “uncertified” Internet services. You have to get approved AND pay (about 500 USD a month).

3. You have to pay for receiving call and SMS - you get to pay even if your not answering the phone. Given this fact, why not allow more services to send SMS, se above, then you could really make some serious money.

Click on the grid below and watch how two friends share stuff using Squace

The summit itself? If you are fortuned to be invited to present your company it’s among the top events in the world. You’ll find that your LinkedIn profile will make a major quality jump - tones of interesting people there. And, if you have the right concept and are based in USA you can score some capital.

As for the actual content of the conference? Nothing new and really surprising other than the music panel at the end including MC Hammer and some other really cool rappers - a powerful finale!

Thanks Tony

Aage Reerslev, CEO, Squace AlwaysOn 2008 - filmed by my friend Phil Jeudy

1 August, 2008 (18:08) | Personal, Squace related | By: Aage Reerslev

Now we’re gonna talk to Fredrik, who is the spider around here. He work’s at “business” but has a technical background, althought we’ve heard him say “I will never get back to boring programming”

What are you working at, Fredrik?

- On a project that will compile content for Squace in new markets.

How will you accomplish that?

One part of the project is to gather people from different countries to sort out content in their own different languages.

-What markets do you feel are the most important?

There are lots of them. India is of course an important big country, and so is China. But also european countries such as Italy. An unexpected country where we have lots of users is Iran.

Iran?! Why would people in Iran be so intrested in Squace?

- I’m guessing that it’s sort of like in Italy. The Internet infrastructure isn’t that well built in comparison with the mobile market, which is huge! Iran is also one of the world biggest blogging countries, and Squace is a perfect blog reader.

Which countries has their own content right now?

A lot of countries already got content. What I mean is that we’re preparing full pre-selected content for these countries. We have four packages ready today, UK, Spain, Sweden and a international one.

Which site is the most popular one in the UK?

-That is a secret!

Which is your favourite site in Squace?

- I have a morning routine. While eating breakfast I check out Aftonbladet (Swedens biggest online newspaper) , dev.mobi and also a random blog, often mobile related. On the subway this morning I realised that Metro - the free news paper - are having a summer break, so I read Metro through Squace instead.

Which service would you like to have in Squace?

- A groups of sites I discovered today, map sites where you could pinpoint and grade different domestic services like the best Sushi, places with Wifi, and so on. But also a to-do-list, like remember the milk.

1 July, 2008 (15:12) | Personal, Squace related | By: Damon

The summertime usually means less time in front of the computer. But not for us at the headquarters. In order to give you a brief on what’s happening right now, I will talk to some of the fine people working here. First up we have Pelle, our designer.

What are you up to today, Pelle?

- Well, right now we’re building to enhance the tool for creating blogs in Squace.

Please describe the tool!

- A blogger will only have to choose a background image, a short “about” text and a link to the feed. Which gives the blogger a customized promotion button and a landing page.

What is a landing page?

- A page where the blogs reader can see how the site will work in the phone.

Why do people need such a function?

- To get familiar with the service on the computer before downloading to the mobile.

Which is your favourite site in Squace?

- Trafiken.nu, a site with local traffic info, in which I can see the traffic cameras around the city on my way to work.

Which service would you like to have in Squace?

- I think I would like to improve a service that already exists; Wine ratings! We already have a site by a big wine supplier, but it would be great with an independent site like Winespectators.

30 June, 2008 (11:48) | Personal, Squace related | By: Damon

It seems like we’re getting new fans in the most unexpected areas. We’re proud to present the first Squace rapper we just run into while googling! /Tobbe

26 June, 2008 (11:06) | fun stuff | By: Squace

Here’s a little clip we made about Squace last year:

25 June, 2008 (13:43) | Squace related, fun stuff | By: Damon

When and where is the next game for Ekerö IK’s soccer team for boys born 1999? What’s the phone number to Vallentuna BK’s ice hockey coach? How can I look at the photos from The “Girls spring soccer cup” on the bus? All this and much more is now possible in Sweden through a new service provided by Sportnik and Squace.

Sportnik is a Swedish company offering free sites for sport clubs and teams. The team sites offer smart tools for disseminating information quickly and easily to the whole team – no matter if you’re a player, manager, parent or just a fan. All the sites within the club system are integrated, making it possible for teams and members to communicate with each other. Thousands of teams have created their own sites on Sportnik’s platform.

Through a joint development project, Squace has been integrated into Sportnik’s platform. With a single click all existing and new team sites are available in Squace as well. The Squace site contains the most important and fun information when a user is on the move, e.g. calendar, news, guest book, contact details, and a photo gallery. Through a login functionality, some information is available to players and team leaders only, whereas other is publicly available. Check out one of the teams here! /Bo

24 June, 2008 (16:40) | Squace related | By: Squace

I recently read a research paper (From Awareness to Repartee: Sharing Location within Social Groups, click here for .pdf) that discussed a new way to use GSM triangulation to automatically microblog about your position. If you for instance were somewhere, say at work, you could name, or tag, that location by typing “Work” in your phone. Every time you then were within a 70 meter radius (give or take) your status would update to “At Work”.

If you stay for a longer period of time, it would change to “At Work since 12:17 am”. Then when you left, it would change to “Left Work at 2:23 pm” until you enter another known (or named) location. Locations could be your own or reached by a closed group consensus, so you could optionally reuse someone elses “Home” so it would say “At Ernies Home” if you were at Ernies place.

You could also turn off automatic updates if you for example snuck off to an interview over lunch.

I think this is a vary nice take on microblogging (like twitter and jaiku already do well) since it requires very little recurring effort from the user, and the level of detail is entirely up to you.

For our users, it could add a few nice new fun things to do in Squace. First, you could see where all your contacts are (if they want to show you of course).

Second of all, we can help our users to find new stuff in squace based on what they usually do “At Home” or “At Work”.

Relevancy on a whole new level!

18 June, 2008 (11:15) | Squace related | By: Gustav Weslien