READ WRITE WEB -- June 9 --With
975m Mobile Web users expected by 2012, mobile social networking is a potentially
very lucrative market. Here are 10 mobile social networks to keep your eye on.
Dada - a mobile SNS that enables users to update personal blogs with
pictures and video, download mobile entertainment, connect with and
meet other local singles in real time and stay in contact with all
their friends
Strands - started out as a music discovery mobile SN service. It enables its users to find music and
network with their friends via their mobile phones
Itsmy - MySpace for your phone
Frengo - In addition to extending support for
the Open Social and Facebook platforms to the mobile phone, the Frengo
toolkit allows developers to monetize applications via the company's
social advertising platform or via premium SMS.
Twango - combines online storage with social networking, allowing users to
organize and share photos, videos and other personal media
Shozu - enables users to share
videos and photos via their mobile phone
Brightkite - allows for user's network of friends to keep track of
where others may be at any moment
Zyb - aims to be a mobile contact organizer for user's social network
Groovr - The only feature we
found remotely unique is a city's Explore page on Groovr. All of users'
posted items are sent to the corresponding cities Explore page.
Fon11 - Developed by MoBlast Technologies, Fon11 could become
the hottest mobile SN for the iPhone. With a nice UI and great features
like the ability to see just how far away users' contacts are from
them, availability status messages, visibility
settings and more, it seems Fon11 has a lot more to offer than the rest
of the pack.
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READ WRITE WEB -- Aug 1 -- According to a rather speculative report by ABI Research, location-based social networks like Brightkite, GyPSii, and Loopt could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013. While we have little doubt that mobile social networking will be a big market in the future, today's reality is rather bleak. Most of these networks don't have many users and the chances of finding your friends on them are relatively low. Mobile social networking is only going to really grow once the big social networks like Facebook, MySpace, or Orkut, release location-aware applications for mobile devices. FULL ARTICLE @ READ WRITE WEB 
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