Liv4now launches subscription scheme for PDA site

Liv4now is to charge £10 per month for access to the wireless service, which provides users with to access interactive discussion forums, a range of editorial content and user-generated blogs.

The wireless version of the Liv4now site uses the AvantGo PDA network and has attracted more than 19,000 regular PDA users since it rebranded last November, in addition to the 90,000 unique users the website has each month.

Liv4now is being introduced to current and prospective users of the service as "part magazine, part interactive community, and part private-member's club", with prospective members having to fill in an application form to access both the dot com and PDA site, subject to approval from a Liv4now Selection Committee.

Liv4Now MD Ilana Fox said the company wanted to exercise "a form of control over who we allow to access the site" in order to preserve and maintain the current community, while also generating revenues that it will channel back into the site to provide "a heightened Liv4now experience".

"Currently Liv4now has approximately 4,000 people clamouring to be part of this online private members club," added Fox.

"We don't know of any other websites who have the guts to turn the tables on the internet and hope for a smaller audience. We're really looking forward to playing God."

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