Joi Ito on the mobile internet

Just about everyone I talk to is very excited about mobile Internet. In 2006, the Japanese government proudly announced that more people used the Internet through their mobile phones than through their computers. Online services are all talking about their “mobile strategy” and VCs are flocking to fund the latest “mobile startup”

I don’t think there is anything wrong with mobile or with some of the great new mobile applications and devices, but we have to be careful to remember that most mobile networks that actually work are built on infrastructure that is operated by a small number of mobile operators who use a lot of regulated and closed technology.  read on>>>

Mobile social network app using the iPhone as their marketing tool

http://www.groovr.com/ The iphone has a browser, So what?

Linkedin starts mobile network

Type m.linkedin.com in your mobile browser and login. Finally linkedin is mobile

Twitter / Dodgeball

I use twitter. And I do not know why. I am still waiting for Dodgeball popping up in Amsterdam. Check out this article why!

Mobile Social Networking service Bing will be launched

Buongiorno has revealed plans to roll out it’s Mobile Social Networking service (called ‘Bing’) in several countries, including Australia, New Zealand, India, and Indonesia. This is after successful trials in South Africa and Austria, where 380,000 users were sending over 5m messages/week, and registering over 850,000 downloads.

Ifob social networking for the iphone

I am a crackberry addict but for you guys with an iphone there is a special social network just for you!

iFob is software which turns iPhones & laptops into wireless Icebreaking Beacons. You download iFob and then take about 30 seconds to put in your tagline, something like, “I like coffee,” and then when you go anyplace where other people have iFob installed on their iPhones or laptops, your “I am Here” taglines get exchanged with each other.

iFob isn’t a MySpace, dating or a Facebook site. iFob is not a site at all.

With iFob all the virtual crud and un-reality disappears because the broadcasting and receiving is ultra close by and local: people only see taglines of others who are in the same physical places. “See,” means that your iFob software will light up and show a list of all the other iFobs who are right there, right now, in the same hotspot.

“iFob?”

A definition of Fob is any small key chain thing you put in your pocket. The “i” is because it is for iPhone and iPod and you and i. Of course iFob works on PCs and Macs too, but iPC sounded too much like “I am P.C.”, which you and I are not.

Social networking meets voip

An excellent article about social networking and mobile voip at http://www.xchangemag.com/articles/519/cosial_networking_meets_voip.html

It is Friday night in Amsterdam, have a nice weekend!