Posts Tagged with ‘mobile’

Though I like the fact that Nokia took steps to acquire its own social platform called Plazes, I'm not a huge fan of companies trying to keep up with the Joneses. Those Joneses, in this case, would be Apple, which recently announced that a similar stalker-friendly tool called Loopt will be available for the iPhone [...]

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase. There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have [...]

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack.  Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users to [...]

If you are one of the many who haven't bought an iPhone, and don't plan on buying an iPhone even with the new low iPhone 3G price, but still subscribe to AT&T, I might never understand you.  However, my misgivings about your cellular provider aside, your peculiar choices shouldn't mean you can't play social with [...]

Though Steve Jobs' keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference tends to be one of the biggest Apple events anually, today's keynote was a bit lack-luster.  Jobs announced a 3G iPhone with real GPS for a frugal $199, a fleet of iPhone Apps store products, OS X "Snow Leopard," a change to .Mac and more.  [...]

Its official: I am addicted to following Twitter .  The habit is nearly as obsessive if not moreso than compulsively jumping to my inbox anytime Mail.app for Mac shows I have a new email.  I even have SMS notifications enabled for a select group of Twitter friends on my cell phone.  Once the voyeuristic beast [...]

I am, in all likelihood, one of the most absent-minded people in existence. While in my mind I am insanely organized, the presence of some combination of my children around me most of the time means I forget a lot of things. I’ve been using my cell phone’s camera for jogging my memory for as [...]

The launch of the iPhone (shortly followed by the iPod Touch) seemed to fuel developer's desires to create mobile-specific web applications despite the device's ability to access the entire internet (without the WAP/WML limitations of most mobile devices). Many mobile web users find the wireless application protocol (WAP) too restrictive and slow, greatly limiting what [...]

Playyoo just launched a public beta mobile social networking platform that allows game developers to interface with users. Playyoo's Game Streams are an easy way to discover and download games by utilizing intelligent filtering to ensure that only relevant games from within their networks. The big draw for this service is that developers can create [...]