Category Archives: Social Networking
Mobile social network Tagwhat showcases augmented reality platform
Today has been a very location-heavy day. We’ve seen location advertising launched from AdMob, and a major update to location-based mobile social network Tweetsii. And now here’s a brand new service called TagWhat – an Augmented Reality social network with its roots firmly in mobile. Continue reading
Mobile location and social network Tweetsii updates for Android and iPhone
There was a big update from mobile social network Gypsii this week. The releases for iPhone and Android have seen new services being layered over the content and data that Gypsi0i has on it’s mobile application, Tweetsii. Continue reading
Mobile Brits snogging potential UK Prime Ministers
Rating: They’re all over 18 so it’s legal
The wonderfully named mobile dating site, Flirtomatic, has been capitalising on the forthcoming UK general election by putting up fake profiles of the three main candidates. Members are then invited to ‘snog’ a potential Prime Minister to win prizes. Continue reading
iWikiPhone’s social app development seems to works
Rating: Second project app – Mystatusmonkey – is launched
The team at iWikiPhone are trumpeting the arrival of the second iPhone app to be spawned by their App Farm called Mystatusmonkey. This follows the success of ScrAppbook, their first ever iPhone app. If you manage to vote on and pick the next candidate for the iWikiPhone developers, you can win $50. Continue reading
Momentum gathers behind telefusion
Rating: Starling rival Fuugo looks interesting
A Sunday car supplement is the unlikely source of this hot tip about ‘telefusion’ – that the fusion of TV with other technologies such as social networking. Anyway, Starling which we covered here apparently has a number of potential rivals such as Fuugo and Miso as well as Yahoo! and Google. Continue reading
Myriad Group nails massive mobile social networking deal
It’s hard to overstate just how big Telefónica is. In terms of subscribers, it only lags behind China Mobile and Vodafone. It is a massive force in Europe, and dominates the Latin American mobile market. So when it announces that YOU are now going to be providing mobile social networking services to subscribers across its lucrative Latin American market, it’s time to pop open the champagne. And this is what has happened to Myriad Group. Continue reading
Unusual location aware app from Lufthansa
Rating: MemberScout is more social networking than flight times
A rather unusual variation on the travel information theme has just been launched by Lufthansa – an iPhone and Blackberry app called MemberScout. It combines location awareness with social networking to support the airline’s frequent fliers. Continue reading
Google Buzz on mobile is just a bad version of Twitter
Google doesn’t sit on its hands when it comes to mobile. The “gmail for mobile” website is a good example. All you need to do is point your mobile browser towards www.gmail.com, and it does the rest. But today’s announcement that Buzz has been activated for the mobile mail client has left me cold. Continue reading
Tweets are faster than earthquakes
Here’s a little insight into the bizarre power of mobile communication for you, dished up by xkcd. The seismic waves from earthquakes travel more slowly than signals along a fiber network. Which means it’s possible to be close enough to an earthquake to feel it, but still find out about it from Twitter first. Continue reading
Mobile social networking in London
Yesterday saw the second Social Media World Forum run in London – an entire day of presentations and speeches by the social media community. I was chairing the mobile branch of the event , so I didn’t get a chance to do any interviews, but there were a lot of interesting tidbits about mobile social networking that I pulled from the event. Continue reading
Mobile barcodes stumbling onto Facebook? FACECODES!
Here’s an interesting emerging story: it would appear that Facebook is phasing in an option to generate a 2d barcode and link it to your Facebook account. The service hasn’t been rolled out fully yet, but some users are reporting that the option has been appearing on their account. Continue reading
Mobango claims a 500% increase in mobile appls downloads
Rating: Mixes social networking with content
Mobango is claiming to have discovered a successful new model to fuel downloads. It claims the system – known as Pay per Promoted Downloads platform (PPD) – generated a 500 per cent increase in downloads last year [2009]. Continue reading
Twitter by voice: mobile social network Bubbly gets celebrity users
GoMo News covered the launch of a new voice-powered mobile social network in India in early February. Modeled on Twitter, “Bubbly” allows users to record and send short voice recordings to all of their followers. Two weeks after launch, the creators of the service are claiming over 500,000 users, and a growing portfolio of Bollywood stars. Continue reading
iPhone app social network goes international
Rating: Some users of Chorus actually spend their money
With the estimated number of iPhone apps being anywhere between 130,000-150,000, envIO Networks reckons it has found the answer with its Chorus service.
An iPhone apps social network with a difference. This one claims its users have spent over $1 million on paid apps to date, with the average user recommending 75 friends to join the community. Continue reading
MWC: Beoble.me – German answer to foursquare and loopt
Beoble.me ist ein Location Based Service, in Form einer Kombination aus Flirt/Dating-Plattform und Friendfinder/“Biertrink-Radar“ unter dem Motto “Who’s up tonight?” Continue reading
