Zynga, the largest social gaming network, announced today the launch of “Live Poker,” the first truly live game on the iPhone. This mobile version of Zynga’s popular Texas Hold’Em turns the iPhone into an always-on social gaming device.

The number of social networkers accessing Facebook from their mobile phone has tripled since the start of 2008.

Use of Facebook mobile products has grown from 5 million active users at the beginning of the year to 15 million, Wayne Chang, an engineer on Facebook’s mobile team, wrote on a Facebook blog.

iVisit combines audio-video conferencing, instant messaging, presentation and desktop sharing into one powerful unified communication solution. It works on desktop computers and mobile devices, enabling cross carrier and cross platform connectivity.

Our breakthrough peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology dramatically reduces the cost of unified communications and online meetings. 

DialPlus enriches the standard phone call experience by automatically and simultaneously providing dynamic, contextually relevant visual information about the called or calling party before the call is answered, during the call and after the call is over. DialPlus makes it easy for users to engage in mobile social networking or to get information about a business they’re speaking with, such as directions, menus and reviews.

With tons of friends on Facebook from New York to Sydney, RSS feeds from cooking sites to the Wall Street Journal, and messages from your Aunt Martha, your boss and everyone in between, who has time to manage all of these information streams efficiently, especially while on the go?

With the help of our smart AI engine, my6sense is able to make sense of this fire hose of information and keep you from losing your mind by helping you to better manage your information sources and enable you to discover and interact with the people and data sources that matter the most.

In essence, Soocial enables you to sync contacts (and contacts only) between computers, over 400 types of mobile phones and web applications like Gmail and Highrise. Soocial also provide tools to manage these contacts, backups, and keeps your current address book in sync and up to date with all your devices. Up until now, the service only supported the Mac OS X Address Book client.

It’s easy to stay in touch on Ovi. Keep your contacts and calendar up to date on your mobile, PC and Ovi.com. Invite your friends to share your photos, videos, files and more. Get to where you want with Nokia Maps, face a new challenge on the latest N-Gage game, or take a listen to the latest song on Nokia Music.

Today, we launched a new admin tool which allows us to more efficiently deal with spam when we spot it. Our support staff can now more easily review and suspend spam accounts as well as visibly change the content on the profile to read, “This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity,” so that others may be warned.

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu and Christophe Hocquet from Moblr, who are using Taptu to power their social media site.  Taptu have now “officially” launched, even though they have been live for some months now.

Taptu is unique in that they are targeting almost exclusively the mobile user.  Steve’s vision for Taptu is to have the best possible mobile search experience - tying in the social media aspects of all that content flying around today on social networking sites and making it simple to find and share.

Digital Millennials are the first real post-PC generation; their smart phones are not only their primary digital device but some would say their primary means of discovering what it means to be a social being. For brands, millennials’ perpetual connectedness via mobile phones and social networking profiles has been their most salient trait for about five years. 

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He’s made some unexpected discoveries along the way.

[Make sure to checkout the new Familiar Stranger mobile phone application:]
Our previous formal studies and anecdotal observations guided a design for a personal, wearable, wireless device that would capture and extend the essence of the Familiar Stranger relationship.  These devices can either be attached to fixed objects, such as a bus stop platform, or carried/worn by individuals.  Each device is wireless and emits a short range (20m) radio beacon with a random but unique identifier.  The wireless transceiver on the device allows each to be able to detect and record all of the other nearby beaconing devices. As two people approach one another, each device transparently detects and records the others unique ID.  Over time each device accumulates a log of unique entries of people that have been previously encountered.  There is no central server that stores, manages, or processes the data.  The logs are unique and stored only on each individual device. Using this data there are several previously identified social factors that can be extracted and displayed.

October update for Mobile Monday Beijing of our popular presentation at O\’Reilly\’s \"Graphing Social Patterns” conference in June 2008. See how leading Asian mobile SNS are faring compared to Facebook, and learn how they do it.