Five shiny new mobile social networks
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These five mobile social networks are all vying to be the next hot thing. See how they stack up.
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Public chatter on mobile phones is annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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TechMeme really likes Friday evening's Monkey piece, it's been #1 for almost 24 hours. Even if people still use the Social Graph term, it may have done some good by asking the question -- what's the difference between a network and a graph? In math there is no difference, a network is a graph and vice versa.  I got one thing wrong, apparently the term came from Facebook, presumably as a way of separating what they do from their predecessors.  Dan Farber reported in May. "Zuckerberg describes the Facebook core function that the new third-party applications can tap into as a 'social graph,' the network of connections and relationships between people on the service." Google Trends comparison of "social network" vs "social graph." Fred Wilson posted a comment pointing to a post where he wondered what the graph thing was all about. His post was one that inspired me to write my piece. Buzzwords and phrases are useful if they describe something new. For example, I remember when platform was new, but I didn&#185;t object to it, because it explained a concept that we needed a word for. Today it's still much in use, and there's little or no confusion about what it means. I was doing audio blog posts before we had the term podcast, and I totally got behind it because we needed a word for what we were doing. But social graph is not needed, it makes something simple sound complicated, and we totally need it to sound simple if the problems are going to get solved. They&#185;re not trivial problems, they&#185;ve been there since the Internet outgrew academia and started being used for commercial purposes. Another problem with new names for old things is that it tends to push aside the pioneers and makes it sound like newcomers are not also-rans. Fred had a reasonable gripe as a backer of Wasabe when Mint started getting credit for being a first mover. At least they didn&#185;t have the chutzpah to try to make it a trend and give it a buzzword.  Someone is being pushed aside with the term &#179;social graph&#178; likely some competitors of Facebook like MySpace and LinkedIn, and some pioneers are going to lose credit for their innovation if it takes root. It may still take root, but I felt I had to say something. BTW, the title of the post contains a grammatic error because I changed the title to monkey from something else and didn't look carefully at the resulting title.
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Members of social networking services  like Facebook will soon be able to update their profiles by  simply making a phone call, instead of having to type on a  computer keyboard.
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Comment is free: Indra Adnan: Social networking has turned relationships that were easy to distinguish into one amorphous web.
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Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one&#39;s every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day.
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Answer yes or no. This new social-networking site is based upon your responses to all kinds of questions
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The Web used to be a place where we went to seek information. But with the rise of social networks, we're barraged with a constant stream of data, requested or not
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Anybody who thinks innovation in the social networking realm is tapped out should think again. MTV is getting into the game with some big-name backers.
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Blog: Prototype software sends recent images taken in the vicinity of a Flickr member to that person's mobile phone and keeps people up to date with contacts' Flickr photos.
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Latest version of mobile phone browser adds social networking features, improves functionality.
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The best things in life are currently being subverted by a SymbianOS worm that's actively spreading on mobile-phone networks. Beware, therefore, of Beauty, Sex, Love and such, at least if they come to you in MMS.
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Imagine turning on your mobile phone to watch breaking news or an entertainment program. The idea could soon become reality following an announcement last week that five of the world&#39;s largest mobile phone
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InfoWorld - The Web 2.0-social networking phenomenon's seemingly irresistible force field has ensnared yet another niche: travel.
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Web 2.0 moves into your neighborhood as firms vie to deliver local content to your cell phone
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Good Mobile Messaging 5 adds custom options and shortcuts for enterprise use.
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What draws workers to MobiTV? A hot technology, a cool company and maybe even a big payoff