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 Zygo turns your mobile phone from a person to person into a group communications networking device.
Zygo is a mobile social networking service for groups of people in the real world, and a unique mobile media platform for the brands that want to reach them.
There’s a million and one reasons why groups get together; friendship, shared obsessions, shared knitting patterns, whatever, each to their own. But when they’re on the move the one problem that all these groups have in common is the frustrating number of individual texts or calls it takes to keep everyone up to speed.
Source: Textually.org
No more! By simply adding a single Zygo number to their contacts groups can instantly share their messages, news, plans, schemes and witty one-liners with their chosen few.
Zain, part of the Zain Group, the leading mobile telecommunications provider in the Middle East and Africa, launched a first-of-its-kind social networking service in the Middle East, under the name of ‘Watwet’, in partnership with the Amman- based TootCorp, a leading Arab web 2.0 media company based in Jordan. This unique service is available exclusively to Zain’s customers through SMS and it enable’s them to always stay in touch with their friends and colleagues, wherever they are. Watwet launched its social networking and mini-blogging service on February 17, 2008 through Watwet website that is considered one of the newest social Arabic websites specialised in social networking. This new service, that links both the mobile and internet services, is expected to attract a high number of youths and university students. All internet users can constantly stay in touch with their friends by visiting Watwet at www.watwet.com and create their own walls.
Zain customers in Jordan will have exclusive access to the mobile services of Watwet via SMS and MMS; resulting in increased instant interaction and ease of use. Watwet will allow people to send one message to all friends using their mobiles or internet, the messages will be received online and through email to all users, while free SMS notifications will reach Zain users only. People will be able to receive messages for free, while sending SMS will cost 3 piasters per message and MMS will cost 9 piasters per message, no matter how many recipients. Zain is providing a diverse database of services through SMS and MMS in the fields of entertainment, news, stock and exchange prices, instant translation and on the social level as well.
Source: AMEInfo
LinkedIn, a network of 19 million professionals, has launched the mobile version of its site available at m.linkedin.com from mobile Internet browsers. The service supports the iPhone, the iPod touch, Blackberries, and other phones. The beta release, announced by the company is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. Members will be able to search profiles and bio information; research contacts they may have in common with other professionals; invite people to join networks; and receive updates about connections. A final version is expected later this year.
Type on your mobile : m.linkedin.com
Source: Moconews
Loop Mobile , a mobile community venture headquartered in Sydney, Australia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a joint venture with Radical SoftNet, a subsidiary of India based Telemart Communications. Radical SoftNet will distribute and operate Loop’s MOKO mobile community service in India.
Source: Contentsutra
More than half of Americans embracing mobile data
Americans are adopting new technologies, entertainment platforms and user-generated content with growing fervor, according to a new Deloitte & Touche study “State of the Media Democracy.” According to Deloitte & Touche, millennials (consumers ages 13 to 24) lead the new media charge, with 46 percent embracing their mobile handsets as entertainment devices–84 percent of millennials send and receive text messages, compared to 57 percent of the total consumer population. In addition, 56 percent of all consumers snap photos with their phones, including 37 percent of matures (users 61 to 75). 60 percent of trailing millennials (consumers ages 13 to 18) rely on someone else to pay for their mobile service, and 25 percent of leading millennials (young people 19 to 24) are still depending on financial support as well.
Deloitte & Touche also notes that demand for user-generated content is surging across demographic lines–51 percent of all consumers now consume UGC, led by 71 percent of millennials. 55 percent of millennials and 42 percent of Generation X-ers (ages 25 to 41) read blogs, with 62 percent of the former and 41 percent of the latter tuning in to YouTube and related video sites. Forty percent of all consumers now create their own entertainment, including movies, music and photos–millennials dominate the discussion at 56 percent, but 25 percent of matures are now creating UGC.
Source: Deloitte Report (PDF)
Mobile advertising agency AdMob has announced the development of an advertising platform for social networking service Facebook’s mobile site. According to AdMob, the platform is targeted to third-party developers creating applications for Facebook users, and represents the first monetization solution for Facebook Mobile developers, who will retain full control over which ads appear in relation with their apps. AdMob will issue the code for a sample application, dubbed AdMob Footprints–developers may use the sample as a springboard for additional software creation.
Source: Cellular News
Whrrl is a new mobile network that lets you aggregate information as you visit different places in life. It’s generally like a location review service that’s wrapped up in a map mashup and a social network.
If you’re on the north side of town and you’d like to find a restaurant or a local museum, you can access whrrl on your mobile and do a search based on your location. From there you can filter search results based on ratings, users, activity type, price, hours of operation, distance and neighborhood.
If you go to a location and would like to review it, you can “check in” and write your review (this is in a wiki format), give it a rating, and this is all incorporated into the Whrrl database for other users’ benefit. Add some images if you’d like. People like to look at pictures. Locations can also be bookmarked, so you can check them out the next time you’re on that side of town. If you’d really like to be kept up to date with what’s going on around you, check out your newsfeed. This consists of activity going on with your friends.
Currently, whrrl supports AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile customers in the USA, on about 10 phone models. There will also be plans for charging mobile users for use of its location-based service.
Source: Mashable
Dashwire is a new mobile network with a web presence that essentially acts as an extension of your mobile phone. It synchronizes with pretty much everything you do on your hand set, saving messages, images, videos, ringtones, checking your ringtones, and more. This gives you an easily accessible way in which to handle activity on your mobile without actually having to use it.
While other services enable you to send text messages from the web to another user’s cell phone, messages sent from Dashwire will appear to others as having been sent from your cell phone. You can even configure certain aspects of your cell phone, such as assigned ringtones to friends, through Dashwire
Source: Mashable
Wireless communities and consumer services provider BuzzCity says 54 percent of delegates surveyed at the MoCollywood 2007 conference never use the premium mobile content services they market and sell.
The survey adds that among the mobile operator, media player, content owner, developer and retailer execs in attendance, 56 percent said they employ mobile web services on a daily basis, but rarely if ever capitalize on mobile TV and music services.
Another 39 percent of respondents anticipate that within three years, mobile advertising will lead revenue generation–30.5 percent anticipate flat monthly fees will replace current pay-per-download charges. In addition, 72 percent of respondents believe that mobile social networking services remain in their infancy as an emerging niche, and are little more than an extension of existing online sites.
Link: Full Press Release
Source: Fiercewireless
Google has acquired Zingku, a mobile social network which lets people create and share things via mobile, instant messenger and web browser—it’s integrated with a personalized website that lets people move things back and forth between the web and the mobile reports Google Operating System. There are also group messaging services and syndicated feeds.
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