Crowd surfing the UCLA campus, hmmm now there's a thought. Well that's just what SmallPlanet is doing with 'CrowdSurfer' on Nokia 6600 and 6230 phones utilizing Bluetooth radio signals and GPRS connections to SmallPlanet.net.

According to the Business Wire press release— Social Networking Graduates to Wireless at SmallPlanet.net:

"This is true location-based, mobile social networking," says SmallPlanet's Ken Torimaru, who led the development of CrowdSurfer. "We are giving users the option to know when friends are nearby and to meet new people with whom they share some common, previously invisible connection, and we're doing it in the real world; in real time, in real place."
... Like most advances in consumer information technology, such as the Internet itself, the location-based mobile services that will figure prominently in the coming "mBoom" come with risks as well as rewards, such as potential misuse and loss of privacy. "We are very focused on privacy issues with this application," says Heaney. "We are rolling it out slowly and methodically, and with the maximum  amount of filters and controls that allow users to determine exactly who, if anyone, gets to 'see' or 'find' them at any given time."

So let's see—Someone turn on the socialight, then let's get a CrowdSurfer to go out and Find Friends, so we can play some Dodgeball, over at the WINKsite. Hey, it is a SmallPlanet after all, and getting smaller and smaller all the time. mBoom here we come… (-:=