Hmm, sounds like a band.
I've been calling this new crop of
services—
Mobile Social Networking—in my posts here on The Social Software Weblog. Not nearly as sexy as MoSoSo though,
no?
By the way, I am still working on my mobile services survey report—I have been on the road a lot lately and next
week I am flying off to Nice to give the keynote speech at iDate
(July 15-16, 2004—if you are in the Nice area and think you might be able to attend then register before July 10th for
a discount—that's tomorrow!) Then, when I return to the states, I plan to dive into finishing touches on both the
mobile report and the YASNS timeline.
Met Dennis Crowley at SuperNova, nice guy. Dodgeball is getting excellent press coverage—Wired, TIME, The New York
Times, Newsweek, and here… (-:=
Today I found a tidbit in this month's Wired Jargon
Watch on MoSoSo:
MoSoSo
Acronym for mobile social software, a Friendster-like service for cell phones. Coined after the launch of Dodgeball.com, the first MoSoSo provider.
Dodgeball may well be the first to use the newly minted MoSoSo acronym, but the first Mobile Social Software provider? (maybe, as they advertise their 'Alpha launch' as 02.15.00.)
There's a nifty list of Mobile Social Software applications on elastic space (along with a brief description of each service listed there).
Here is a partial list of services that will accompany my soon to be published MoSoSo survey:
ActiveMatch, AirCQ, asphaltgames, awaRE, BEDD, Beliefnet Mobile, BuZZone, CrowdSurfer, dodgeball.com, Encounter Bubbles, Flickr, Fluidtime, IcyPole, ImaHima, Jabberwocky, JAMDAT, Mamjam, Meetup, MobiLuck, mobster, Mooble, modus, MTONE, PeepsNation, Plink Mobile, Pocketster, proxidating, Proxpro, Saw-You, Serendipity, socialight, Socializer, Speck, Traces of Fire, tunA, Wavemarket, weemee, WhoAt, WiFi.Bedouin.
If you have any more services to add to this list, please do. Thanks… (:=
1. http://www.plazes.com
Plazes is the first global location-aware service, connecting you with the people and Plazces in your area and all over the world. It's basically nothing short of being the navigation system for your social life. Plazes is using Local Networks (LANs) as a unique identifier for a location. It does not rely on any mobile phones or GPS. Instead you run a little application called the Plazes Launcher on your computer. It identifies the network you're in. So for Plazes you are where you are connected. After starting the launcher, your browser pops up and provides you with information like geo-location, links, photos, etc. for this specific network i.e. Plaze. By being at a specific Plaze users also publish presence information to others at the same Plaze and their friends anywhere else. Every user has a personal profile so discovery and search is easy.
Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by felix petersen