Five upcoming mobile social networking services

Great, I managed to answer my own question regarding further upcoming SN services….!

Fierce Mobile Content has picked out 5 Mobile SN services that it thinks you should keep an eye on - I've provided a very brief summary, together with links, below:

Meet Now Live - location-based, mobile social networking service which involves you broadcasting your location as you booze through NYC. A Free Beer promotion could see usage of the service sky-rocket….!

Sniff - aforementioned, LBS permission-based service which works via SMS shortcode (and Facebook). You can find your mates and get a map back to guide you to them. Strong emphasis on permissioning and "opt-in"

Trapster - a free "mobile social alert service" that enables motorists to post data on highway speed traps (a US service then!). This means that other users can be alerted and hence slow down. There is a SN element to it whereby users that post data have their credibility determined over the course of time

Whrrl - this app apparently catalogues each user's history of places visited and events attended, at the same time mapping their behaviour with colour icons that show whether the user enjoyed the event/experience or not. Of course, users can share ratings, and update stataus and/or location

Xumii - This one isn't even in the wild properly yet, Xumii enables subscribers to use their favorite communications tools and services to connect with all their social communities via one centralized application. Of course, lots extra is promised like presence notification, offline mode, media sharing, etc. Personally I think we've heard a lot of this before, but lets give them the benefit of the doubt…..

So there you have it, 5 services that are in one way or another twisting the SN concept to include/disclude various elements - most of them are trying to use location-based services, and pretty much all have a sharing element to them. Who knows which of them will be successful….?

[Via: Fierce Mobile Content]