Xtract adds “mobile intelligence” to Flirtomatic mobile social network

Xtract mentioned this deal to us during our MWC interview, but the official announcement is released today. Mobile social networker Flirtomatic will be using the flagship Xtract product, Social Links, to improve its data about the online and mobile user-base.
London-based flirting service Flirtomatic will use Social Links to measure the influence and behaviour of [...]

OSLO Open Sharing of Location-based Objectsfrom aka-aki, Belysio, Buddycloud, Locle, Mobiluck, Moximity, Nulaz, Palringo, Service 2Media,Skout, Tooo and WAYN

Sharing and collaboration remains the buzz word as mobile social networks have teamed together to enable their consumers (approximately 30 million users) to share location information and interact between networks.

From the press release
OSLO currently mandates that member companies should be able to
query the location of users, as long as that user has opted-in to
share their [...]

GoMo 1-to-1: Colibria

We spoke to Guy Reiffer, Product Marketing Director for Colibria, specialists in mobile IM. Citing poor user-experience, Colibria believes that Instant Messaging use is going to migrate from the on-line web to the mobile web.

GoMo 1-to-1: Colibria from Cian Gomo on Vimeo.

BuzzCity opens up its mobile social network myGamma to developers

myGamma social network will now open up its API to third party developers to integrate new applications.

What is myGamma?
myGamma is a mobile social network with 3.2 million members. It is owned by BuzzCity.
From the press release: 
“Our users certainly want to do more with their mobiles and this will mean more applications” said KF Lai, CEO, [...]

Mobile social network Limbo looks to location-based services for 2009

I interviewed Rob Lawson, one of the founders of MoSo Limbo, about his company and the future of mobile social networks. We opened with a brief overview of the company.
What does Limbo do?
Limbo is a location-based mobile social network, concentrating on getting consumers together with their friends and finding interesting things are in their area. [...]

GoMo Buzz Watch: everyone goes crazy over Google Latitude

The release of Google’s new mobile tracking app, Latitude, caused some sort of explosion on the Internet yesterday. Everyone and their sister had something to say about the new service. There are a huge number of blogs and articles about the service out there, so we decided to gather the best ones here.
“Kinda creepy, kinda [...]

W3C reports that mobility and interoperability are essential for Social Networks

Fifty-five organisations and industry leaders gathered for a 2-day workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona in January, run by the W3C. One of its conclusions was that for Social Networks to thrive they need to create an open, mobile Social Web.
Highlights from the report:
* Many social networking sites have yet to take [...]

qeep brings 1 million users to Smaato mobile advertising platform

qeep and Smaato have announced a new mobile advertising partnership. qeep, which has just hit the 1 million users landmark on it’s mobile social network, has integrated Smaatos SOMA ad platform. SOMA will use anonymous profile info like age, region and gender to serve targeted ads to qeep users.
From the release:
“With more than 200 [...]

Bebo launches mobile social network initiative

Bebo has launched Open Mobile, an initiative to help operators use the Bebo platform to create their own social networks. Bebo Open Mobile is intended for operators, handset manufacturers and software developers who want to create branded/tailored versions of the social network for their own use.
Partners can develop a Bebo mobile site with customised navigation, [...]

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