| A: The Group Texter |
B: The Radar | C: The Geotagger |
| D: The Dating Service | E: The Social Networker | F: The Media Share |
Last updated June 2013. See directory type definitions here
![]() ![]() | Company ![]() ![]() | Description |
| B | Google Lattitude | Allows you to broadcast your current location or a short message to anyone within a 10 block radius, based on your friends (and friends-of-friends) list. Superseded Dodgeball, which Google acquired in 2005 and discontinued in 2009. |
| F | Flixwagon | Streams videos live from your cameraphone, and publishes them directly to your flixwagon account. It can even publish them straight to Youtube, for those who are brave or very careful. |
| E | Groovr | Allows you to share text, pictures, videos and location information between PCs and mobile phones. It's based on chatrooms, with different levels of privacy and a 'Circle of Trust' to determine who you can send and receive from. |
| F | itsmy.com | Social networking now focussed primarily on cloud-based games |
| E | JuiceCaster | Lets you create a profile and share messages, pictures and videos with your friends. You can also use it to update other social networking sites incuding Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. |
| A | HDmessaging | Users create a 'loop', and can send free texts to all subscribers to that loop. Loops can be browsed quickly on your mobile by tags. Formerly known as Loopnote |
| D | meetMoi | A dating service. You create your profile, and it tracks you in real-time and alerts you whenever another meetMoi single is near you, without revealing actual locations. |
| F | mig33 | Prioritises free (or at least cheap) global communication by offering services like VoIP, Skype and IM on your mobile. |
| E | mobiSiteGalore | A free mobile website builder, this was the first site that allowed you to build a mobile website on a mobile phone. |
| E | Mocospace | America's largest mobile social networking site. It allows mobile chat, instant messaging, photo and video sharing, and forums. |
| E | MyGamma | Centres on blog and photo sharing. It offers the opportunity to keep contact between communities of invite-only friends, or to shout your presence to the world at large. |
| E | Myspace | One of the large social networking sites, with their own mobile portals. We don't need to tell you what they do, do we. |
| C | PlacesTodo | Available only in New York City. Allows you to tag a location with a to do. Whenever you activate the site, it reminds you of all your to dos within a 5 block radius. You can also view and share to do lists with other users. |
| B | Rabble | A Swedish location-based service that allows you to host and create text, picture and video files and share them with nearby rabble users who share similar interests. |
| E | CP.net | Formerly Shozu. Interfaces with over 50 other social and news sites. It allows photo and video uploads and has live-feeds that download your friends updates as they post them. |
| C | Socialight | A location-based service, allows users to tag on-line maps with 'stickies' containing text and media information. Other users can access these stickies, and socialight alerts you when you approach one. |
| A | text-based micro-blogging service. It allows you to send and recieve short messages for free with other users on either PC or mobile phone. | |
| E | Wadja | A cross-platform site. It is based heavily on bebo, but allows full and easy access from the mobile internet. |
| A | 3jam | A free web-text service that sends single or group texts to and from PCs and mobile phones, and supports most video and audio formats. |
| D | 2go.com | Mobile chat service, based in South Africa. |
| E | airg.com | Their Meet/Share/Play mantra describes the main services they cover, i.e. connecting with friends, sharing info, and online games. A social entertainment leader, based in Canada. |
| E | binu | Platform for reaching all of your social networking favourites. |
| A | chatmobile.com | Does what it says on the tin, with multiple plans across multiple countries. |
| A | fimichat.com | Chat service popular among users in Jamaica, where almost all its audience is located. |
| F | fonebug.com | Invitation-only currently |
| A | frenzo.com | Allows you to connect with friends and people who share your interests safely, i.e. with security features. Emirates-based. |
| F | m.ibibo.com | Heavily games-based site. Includes cricket, for those of you who know what this marvellous sport is! |
| F | miggle | Games site of Tudorgames |
| A | mozat | Social network and gaming platform founded in Singapore. |
| A | mspn.in | Indian chat site. |
| A | Nimbuzz | Nimbuzz is a free instant, mobile messenger & phone app for your Windows PC, Mac or mobile phone. |
| F | Pepronity.com | Mobile site building (and sharing) |
| A | qeep.net | Qeep is the global social network claiming also to be the world's leading mobile gaming & entertainment network. Based in Germany, it includes a novel Sound Attacks, to blast sounds right out of your friends phone. Sounds a bit qeepy! |
| D | rockchat.mobi | Flirt, date, and chat on this site. Presumably primarily about rock music. |
| A | smiggle.mobi | online chat and broadcast 'ShoutOuts'. Popular in Nigeria |
| F | Simple and popular photo-sharing with fun, retro effects. Now owned by Facebook. | |
| E | One of the large social networking sites, with their own mobile portals. We don't need to tell you what they do, do we. | |
| E | Bebo | One of the large social networking sites, with their own mobile portals. We don't need to tell you what they do, do we. |
| E | Microsoft Live | One of the large social networking sites, with their own mobile portals. We don't need to tell you what they do, do we. |
| F | Path | Path is a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices, launched in November 2010. The service allows users to share with their close friends and family. |
| A | Foursquare | Helps you and your friends find places and make the most of your visit. Users "check in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby. Each check-in awards the user points and sometimes "badges". |
| E | Social networking site for professionals | |
| B | Yelp | A local business directory service and review site with social networking features. |
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