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Google shutters Dodgeball, an SMS-based, location-capable effort
Search giant quits work on the mobile social network
January 15 2009 - 1:24 pm ET | Colin Gibbs | RCR Wireless News
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Google Inc. will pull the plug on Dodgeball, cease development of its microblogging service Jaiku and slash roughly 100 jobs as it streamlines [...]
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. Check [...]
Name: Brightkite Tagline: The location based social network Australia: yes works here iPhone app:
Description:
Location-based social networking
Discover who visits your favorite places. Join the community in real time.
Track your friends
See where your friends are and what they’re up to, in real time.
Meet people around you
Meet real world friends. Reveal your location, befriend, and chat with people [...]
Name: Imity Tagline: Social Situations to Go Australia: iPhone App: well, it’s bluetooth, so no.
Description: (now part of Zyb)
Social situations to go. Imity uses your mobile phone to sense people around you.
Your pocket radar
If Imity is active on your phone, you don’t have to do a thing. From your pocket, it will sense other Imity [...]
Name: Groovr Tagline: The Groovr has Arrived. Australia: yes iPhone App: yes
Description: Like brightkite, a location based “whats on in the ‘hood” style network for both web and mobile.
groovr is based in Los Angeles, California and was created in an effort [...]
Name: Dodgeball Tagline: See your friends more Australia: No iPhone App: Not Yet?
Description: Only works in the US at the moment. But it seems you message in your name and location, and Dodgeball tells you who is nearby. If you message in a ‘crush’, youll be told when the love of your life is [...]
Name: iSpott Tagline: Mobile Scavenger Hunt Australia:No iPhone App
Description:
Receive a SMS of for example “apple and orange”, take a foto. Most creative one gets the votes from the community. Win prizes. scavenger hunt.ispott is an online community featuring the world’s first mobile scavenger hunt games, group TXT messaging, photo albums and more - all [...]
Name: JumpClaimer Tagline: Use your mobile phone to map your travels. It’s as simple as an SMS.
Australia: iPhone App
Description: Remember when your grandparents sent postcards from strange and exotic places around the world and you would stick a pin on the map to follow their progress? Welcome to the Internet version. The mobile phone is [...]
Name: MeetMoi Tagline: Location Based Mobile Dating Australia: No? iPhone App:
Description: Fill out a profile. Then - presumably when bored or in a strange city with the husband/wife at home - message your location in. “331 West 4th Street 10014″ (NY service). Up pops 3 messages of possible hotties nearby. et voila, true love. Ok [...]