Informaton on Social Networking going Mobile
Mobile phone users on UCLA campus are experimenting with SmallPlanet’s new CrowdSurfer technology, a social networking system that transmits relationship information up to 100 feet away using Bluetooth radio signals.
“This is going to change sociology forever,” says Vic Downing, President of the strategic advisory firm Global Advantage, Inc. The application goes well beyond the online friend of friend networking popularized by sites like Friendster and Google’s Orkut.com according to SmallPlanet CEO Hunter Heaney.
Dodgeball, which offers similar functionality, but based on different technology, has been live for a couple of months.
On Ecademy they were talking of Ecademy Radio and I was asking for GPRS based, WAP sites based networking. Was I going too fast into the future? I am still waiting to use my Nokia 6600 for social or business networking.
Jay
Comment by Dhananjay Parkhe — 6/2/2004 @ 7:36 am
I’m just not sold on this yet. a) I’m really not paranoid, but I’m just not crazy about the idea of letting everyone know exactly where I am all the time, and more importantly, b) mobile phones are a horrible input device for anything other than numbers. I probably won’t be trying this until I get a wireless PDA! ;-)
Comment by Scott Allen — 6/12/2004 @ 4:00 am