Mobiles reviews - social networking

Bebo heads Mobile with Global Head apppointment

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:38:38 +0000

Social networking site Bebo has appointed Sean Kane as it’s “Global Head of Mobile”, as the site looks to grow it’s 45mn members. Bebo recently linked up with UK Operators including Orange, T-Mobile, and O2 Ireland - and has got Kane on board to develop compelling mobile experiences Kane comes from a social networking platform provider [...]

JupiterResearch: Social networking, SMS use impact effectiveness of email marketing

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:17 +0000

JupiterResearch has found that rising popularity of social networking sites and other forms of communication including text messaging and mobile phone use are beginning to impact the effectiveness of email marketing, particularly the numbers of consumers that say promotional messages inspired purchases. According to a new report titled “The Social and Portable Inbox: Optimizing E-mail Marketing [...]

Garmin and GyPsii sign multi-year agreement

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:08:35 +0000

Garmin has signed a multi year global agreement with GyPsii according to a statement from GyPsii. As we are aware, Garmin is known for it's Sat Nav hardware, whereas GyPsii is a "geo-location and mobile social networking provider". As per the agreement terms, GyPsii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, development licenses and GyPsii [...]

UK: leading mobile social networking!

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:37:20 +0000

Nielsen Mobile has just released stats showing that the UK leads Europe in mobile social networking - apparently 810,000 subscribers visited social networking sites on their handsets in Q1 2008! Facebook was the most popular SN site in the UK, with myspace in second place - which is the opposite to what was found in the [...]

Frengo launches interoperable mobile social apps…

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:04:02 +0000

Now we mentioned Frengo on IntoMobile when it launched some time back, but now "Social mobile services" company Frengo has announced a "suite of applications that interoperate across popular sites Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut and Bebo, enabling users to interact with existing contacts as well as discover like-minded individuals regardless of their particular social networking [...]

Spike Lee and Nokia take film Mobile

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:51:45 +0000

Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with Mobile phone video footage from "everyday people", in what he is apparently calling the "democratization of film". The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts - an "assignment" will be announced online for each act, adn [...]

Ammeon's Commune: multi-cast video communities via mobile

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:23:11 +0000

What is it with UGC-TV? You mention one company, and suddenly a whole load come along! Ammeon is announcing what is apparently the "birth of a unique new communication medium", called Social Mobile Broadcasting. Ammeon's Commune platform basically combines interactive mobile TV with communities and social networking, to delivering an e2e solution designed to complement unicast, [...]