TileFile - Australian Mobile social network
Invite your friends & upload to them a continuing feed of images and sounds Indulge in the river of media that results from the combined feeds of your friends. Meet new people and share favorites as easy as "drag and drop"
Mobile Numbers for safe social networking
Give a classified ad, or dating person a "fake" number. Delete it once you have sold the dodgy item, or slept with 'em once. :P Extend the use of the number on the numbersafe website. From Bloggerati
Zong - Go Mobile: do-it-yourself Premium SMS
Sort of like Campaign Monitor but for SMS services: "Zong is the only web service that enables you to create and launch mobile services in 10 countries in under 10 minutes and generate revenues from each transaction. Zong is a service of Europe's Mobile Media solutions leader, Echovox, which has direct connections and relationships with over 50 mobile operators." Europe only?
Zingku -supercharged mobile txt and picture messaging for you and your friends
Bought by Google. Exchange "mobile flyers" with friends in a trusted manner. Nothing to install."With Zingku, things you wish to promote or share, can easily be created and fetched via mobile, instant messenger, and web browser. Our service integrates your mobile phone with a personalized web site so that you can easily move (zing) things back and forth between the web and and your mobile as well as powerfully connect with friends and optionally their friends. "
YackPack - simply connected
Think conference call but with a web page and fotos on it. When each person speaks, their foto pops up larger. Sort of a graphic interface onto Ventrilo or TeamSpeak? Not sure if there is a mobile widget for the graphic element.
Yahoo! Answers community now on oneSearch
"Yahoo! oneSearch and Yahoo! Answers both offer platforms for searching -- oneSearch with instant results to your queries from your mobile phone and Answers with the content of 350 million answers from over 95 million users worldwide. We wanted to integrate these two methods of searching because we know that sometimes you need to tap people who are "in the know" when you're trying to find a quick answer on the go." Also wikipedia I think.
Google reportedly buying mobile social network Zingku
A Google spokesman confirmed the news: "I can confirm that we acquired certain assets and technology of Zingku. We believe these assets can help build products and features that will benefit our users, advertisers and publishers. Aside from that, we have no plans to announce at this time."
Smart Mobs - book on mobile convergence
HAT TIP: thanks Fang! Howard Rheingold's site. I haven't read much on social networks for ages but I am a big fan of his. From the Virtual Reality days in fact. I haven't read much so far, but it looks like a great resource in mobile social networks.
KishKish Lie Detector for Skype and mobiles
Checks stress levels for fibs. Yep, seriously. "KishKish Lie detector is a tool which detects the stress level of the person you communicate with over Skype. Using the KishKish Lie detector, you can monitor (in real-time) the stress level of the person you are talking to which allows you to gauge the level of stress and modify your questions."
Qipit - use mobile camera to create documents
Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!
Wow, she's so clever :P « Sharing class notes with my study group used to mean standing around the copy machine. Now, I use qipit, and with one click, I can send my notes to everybody. »
Friendstribe.com
Friendstribe.com is a mobile social network. It's similar to other social networking sites except every aspect of it was designed to be used from your cell phone through text messaging. Text a keyword e.g. BLAST and message and your friends all get the message.
Mobileglu - 'mobilizing' Flickr, del.icio.us and others
- mobileGlu will pull the data from your life online and optimise it for your mobile device automatically *mobileGlu will allow you to post to your online services from your mobile *mobileGlu currently supports del.icio.us, Flickr, moblogUK, upcoming.org, Blogger, and RSS feeds with more being added as time goes on
MeetMoi- six degrees - dating
Fill out a profile. Then - presumably when bored or in a strange city with the husband/wife at home :P - message your location in. "331 West 4th Street 10014" (NY service). Up pops 3 messages of possible hotties nearby. et voila, true love. Ok I'm being silly, but that's how it works... From 6 Degrees guy.
LinkNSurf - Track and Share Mobiles on your blog
Quite beta: The easiest way to TRACK and SHARE your favorite blogs on your mobile. Link'n'Surf is the easiest way to track and share your favorite stuff on your mobile: * Blogs : Subscribe to your friends blogs from MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, MSN Spaces, Blogspot, TextAmerica and more. * MySpace Profile Comments: Stay updated with what comments all your MySpace friends are getting . * Photos: Get your favorite photos from Flickr (more coming soon) * Hot or Not, Celebrity Gossip, News, Movie Reviews, Love Quotes
KushCash - social money on mobile cell phones
Manage your social network- send and receive money by your mobile phone. "The Kush Network can be used as a social money scene to settle personal debts and keep tabs on financial activity with your KushCash contacts. You can send friendly reminders, request payments, borrow money, report loans and send payments instantly. Your friends KushCash account, along with yours, will automatically be updated to reflect all current debts and payments. " KushCash is a simple way to send and receive money via your mobile phone.