Two location-based mobile social networking bits: Locle and The Grid

Both South Africa and Ireland have home grown news in location-based mobile social networking today. Irish company Locle is working on a service that will work on any mobile device, and South African Vodacom is introducing a location-based advertising option for it’s MoSo, The Grid.

What is location-based mobile social networking?
Very simply, an LBS mobile social [...]

Survey finds social networks and email are most popular mobile Web activities

Webcredible has released the results of a survey about what people use their mobile device for the most, discounting voice or text. 1,132 visitors to Webcredible between February and April this year were polled. Of the respondants, over 50% of them said that they were now using their devices for at least some mobile Web [...]

Are white-label mobile social networks from Wadja a bridge too far?

 
Wadja.com announced today that it will be providing a white-label service for brands (or anyone else, really) to create their own mobile social network. Built on Wadja’s platform, the social network would be fully branded for the client. The platform allows a variety of ways to access the network, including SMS, mobile Internet and even [...]

Bebo lands Virgin Media for the Open Mobile initiative

AOL announced today that Virgin Media has joined the Bebo Open Mobile program. The program provides mobile operators, manufacturers and developers the tools they need to create brand-customised, mobile versions of the social network for their customers.

Virgin announced two Bebo-related services. The first is Bebo Open Mobile Internet - a customised Bebo mobile site with [...]

The elders save while the young play: comScore looks at how age affects mobile Internet usage

Mobile analytics company comScore today revealed results from a study into how age and gender affect how people use the mobile web. It found that older users are far more likely to use mobile financial services, while teenagers tend to use their devices for social networking and entertainment. These younger user also access mobile Web [...]

Buongiorno announces peoplesound - a mobile social network based on free SMS and mobile Internet

Buongiorno has announced the official launch of peoplesound, it’s new mobile social network. Known as “blinko” when it was in beta, Buongiorno claims that the new network is the “evolutionary” link from computer-centric to mobile-centric social networking.

Buongiorno took advice from users and bloggers in the creation of peoplesound, and created a mobile network that is [...]

Virgin sweetens unlimited mobile data plan with free music downloads

Virgin Mobile and Bebo have teamed up to provide free music to mobile users of the social network. The new service is part of Virgin’s recently launched Addict price plan, which offers unlimited data and SMS to users who top up by at least 20 euro per month

The free-to-download service works by letting users download [...]

Phonevalley uses free SMS to promote PUMA Ocean Racing mobile site

Phonevalley, the mobile advertising and marketing arm of The Publicis Groupe, has created a mobile site for the PUMA Ocean Racing team. The PUMA team is competing in the Volvo Ocean Race, also known as the “Everest of Sailing”. Over nine months, the PUMA team will sail over 37,000 nautical miles between Alicante, Spain and [...]

Scoreloop new mobile social gaming with open SDK

Scoreloophas announced is new mobile social gaming platform. Scoreloop is for game developers. It is a platform that will allow developers to improve the player experience by adding and including new features to the deck.

What?
The SDK is free. The benefits are that when Scoreloop is integrated a new space is created enabling real gamers to [...]

Social network Facebook to come pre-installed on Sony Ericsson mobile device

Sony Ericsson has announced that a Facebook application will come pre-installed on it’s recent C510 phone. The app will display friends info and recent updates directly onto the home-screen of users devices.

The updates appear as a scrollable list of your friends profile pics across the bottom of the page. You can click on those pics [...]

New mobile website from SmartyPig serving offers mobile social… banking?

SmartyPig today announced the launch of it’s very own mobile site. The service is aimed at making people stop putting things on credit cards, or taking loans for purchase. SmartyPig simplifies the process of setting a goal for savings, and making regular deposits for that goal. And for the social part, it allows friends and [...]

One more Social Mobile Photo-Sharing service: Shutterfly

This may be the last one I cover - Shutterfly has released a free application for iPhone that lets customers easily upload, manage and share their photos. When Shutterfly is running in the background, every pic you take automatically begins uploading to the Shutterfly site. Then you can arrange them into albums and set access [...]

Bebo’s Open Mobile Messaging goes live on Vodafone New Zealand

We covered the announcement from Bebo and Telecom New Zealand last month about their upcoming partnership, through the Bebo Open Mobile program. Today Vodafone NZ has announced that it too is joinging the program, and has launched the Bebo Open Mobile Messaging service it’s New Zealand customers
What does Open Mobile Messaging do?

The service allows Vodafone [...]

GoMo Buzzwatch: Google may be close to buying Twitter

Here’s a nice rumour that’s been churning around busily for the last day or two: Google is in talks to buy Twitter. Depending on who you talk to, the talks are either in the very late or very early stages, but most estimate place the price tag at $1 billion - considering that Twitter turned [...]

Virgin Mobile USA adds mobile social networking service to prepaid, but misses the mark on data

Virgin Mobile has announced that it’s prepaid customers in the states will be getting access to Virgin’s “Connect” service. “Connect” is a mobile social networking hub, giving users to all of the most popular social networks from one mobile location, with one log-on. Virgin has also announced that it will be giving prepaid customers access [...]

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