Mobile Social Networks

Name: Lexy Tagline: perhaps: Stick It In Your Ear Australia: iPhone App: Description: Listen to CNN and other mini podcasts regularly downloaded for you. How do I listen to my playlist on the phone? Just call 415-692-4933 from the same phone you subscribed with. Lexy will automatically play your quikcasts, starting with the most recently [...]

Name: Zeep Mobile Tagline: A free mobile messaging API for web apps Australia: doubt it iPhone App: n/a Description: tagline says it all – free SMS tools for web app developers. Revenue model is placing ads in SMS messages – pays for gateway I guess. We use our shortcode – 88147 – to send and [...]

Name MoFuse Tagline: Launch & manage a mobile version of your blog or website. Australia: not the SMS part iPhone App: yes Description: An unusual site as it pulls information DOWN instead of uploading videos and text. Makes everyone’s blog nicely viewable on a mobile phone. And it’s not like a Facebook or MySpace app [...]

Juniper Research have just come out (May 2008) with a great Mobile Web 2.0 whitepaper I thought I would show you the part about challenges: Table 3: Key Challenges for Mobile Web 2.0 Applications Technology Fragmentation Variations in device capability are an intrinsic characteristic of the mobile Web environment and there are thousands of different [...]

Name: Twitxr Tagline: Share pictures and status updates from your mobile Australia:yes  iPhone App: yes Description: send photos to Twitter (chat), Facebook (distribution), Picasa (photo), Flickr (photo). Java and Windows mobile.  “an application that lets you upload photos from your mobile devices, such as iPhone or Nokia, directly onto your favourite photo online sharing site. [...]

Name: TwitPic Tagline: Share Photos on Twitter Australia: yes iPhone App Description: What is TwitPic? TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter How do I use TwitPic? You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API, or through the site itself. There are also popular twitter clients that have built-in support for TwitPic. [...]

Name: mig33 Tagline: Get the whole world on your phone Australia: yes and an Australian company iPhone App: no Description: What is mig33? Mig33 is a global mobile community that lets you keep in touch with friends and family through a variety of online services, right on your mobile phone. With mig33, you can chat [...]

Name: imobio Tagline: not sure Australia; iphone app: no Description: (from my old notes) iMobio is a hosting site for your images, videos and recordings. So if you run out of space on your mobile just send your images via MMS to the email address and keep a permanent copy. Sending an image allows others [...]

Title: Mobile Reporters Tagline: Upload and Share Your Video Australia: from Netherlands iPhone App: Description: Using mobile phone to upload news-style videos to the web Laurel’s note: I think mobilereporters.org and mobilereporters.nl are the same, but I couldn’t get Netherlands one to load. Dutch.

Name: Qik Tagline:See What Happens Australia: yes, download a mobile app Iphone App: yes through Cydia I think Description: Qik enables you to share moments of your life with your friends, family and the world – directly from your cell phone! Keep your world in the know, share a laugh, tell engaging stories. Just point [...]