AOL snaps up Wildseed

A company in search of a mobile strategy (they bought Xdrive last week and introduced mobile search a couple of weeks ago), AOL just scooped up Wildseed, a long-struggling maker of swappable Smart Skins for handsets that never got much love from the carriers (no major US carrier ever offered the phones that were compatible with the skins). The target demo for Wildseed may have been a little cloyingly Gen Y, but the basic idea behind it, namely that you could pop a new skin on your phone that would instantly load up new wallpapers, apps, games, and ringtones, actually wasn't so bad. Not that it matters, since it seems doubtful that AOL'll keep the Smart Skin biz going, sounds more like they're mainly after Wildseed for its software.

[Hans @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

and what ugly phone is that? the numbers are everywhere!

[morgan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

odd phone ! ugly too

[Paul @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Actually, the Curitel Identity (which used SmartSkins) was carried by Celluar One(Dobson)

[blademonkey @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

this is definitely a product of the following design environment:
http://claudiotosado.vilabol.uol.com.br/nintendocontrollerfakeeditor/

[Paul @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Interesting. I interviewed with WildSeed several years ago. The only cool thing I can say is that H.R. Giger made a skin for the phone:

http://www.smartskins.com/smartskinsf.html

Click on 'landschaft'

[er_or @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

nah, I'll just wait and see.

[aj @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

excellent site.

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