Focussing on mobile user generated content, Peperoni Mobile & Internet Software GmbH has been a pioneer in exploring the possibilities of the mobile internet and making them available to end customers since 2001. They have great expertise both in on-portal and off-portal applications and provide for the largest network of mobile sites and profiles worldwide. Mobile network operators increase data ARPU and MMS revenues by launching white-label solutions, brands raise their profile and mobile application manufacturers will drive traffic to their site by advertising into their large user base.

Buongiorno is turning the boat around. The 12-year-old Italian digital content provider, which began as an email newsletter, is “making a huge play” in the mobile social network space, or as Buongiorno’s head of innovation Marcus Thornley told mocoNews.net, “making the move to mobile 2.0”.

The company has already laid some of the groundwork. In June 2007, it launched its mobile-only social network Bing, aimed at 16-to-18-year-olds, and now available in a mix of 11 European and developing countries. As of March, members were exchanging over 20 million messages a week, with Bing amassing over 1.2 million logons.

One of the smaller announcements made in conjunction with the Nokia N79 and N85 was that of a new application, dubbed ‘Nokia LifeviNe’ (we’re not sure why the N is capitalized). From the information and screenshots we were given at the launch, it looked like just a prettier, finally renamed version of Nokia SportsTracker. While the application is not actually available (why announce it, then? It’s an app, for pete’s sake), Ms. Jen, who we’ve linked to before, but has now apparently joined on to contribute at DarlaMack.com, has been given the unique opportunity to test drive the new application.

In case you haven't heard of it before, Nokia lifeviNe is a new geo-tracking-photo-and-video-and-music application. What is basically does is track your travel route using your device's GPS and 'listens' for any pictures or videos you take , or any music you're listening to, and tags it to its location on your route.

Nokia's LifeviNe project has been renamed, it seems, to just Nokia ViNe: Jeff Clinton provides a detailed walkthrough of the application and service, for automatically logging your photos, videos and listened music, for sharing with the world, while Ricky Cadden asks whether the application makes sense, pointing out that it doesn't give much that's new and worrying about possible battery drain implications. I'd echo some of his worries, preferring to simply geotag my photos and upload them to Ovi or Flickr or similar. What do you think of Sports Tracker's evolution?

Skydeck, the online service that helps track who you call and text with your mobile phone, has raised a $3 million first round of financing to expand its service onto various mobile devices.

Skydeck launched at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference in July, and won an award for boldest idea. It creates a sort of social network for your phone calls — showing whom you call the most and when.

It does things like remind you to call your Mom if you are used to calling her frequently, but haven’t called her in a while. (This “reminder to call” feature was actually asked for by one of VentureBeat’s writers, Dean Takahashi, during the MobileBeat conference).

We met with mobile social network mocospace at Mobile Web Europe last week. I had spoken to Jim Gregoire on several occasions via email but this was our first meeting. I went in with guns blazing and I started off by asking “is there really demand for a pure mobile social networking platform; “why does mocospace only target foreigners or immigrants and what is the business model”.

When I first tried mocospace I found that there was a large foreign following. Being an immigrant myself I didn’t think that there was anything wrong with this –but for mobile I was wondering if a social network should be cornered into catering for one social segment.

Jim talked me through the success of mocospace and said that times were changing. Early adopters were social economic backgrounds where there was no PC in the home or the PC was shared by several but now – with the sponsorship and cult movements from within the community the audience is not as specific.

So then the business model and this is where my jaw dropped. Music is a huge business on mocospace and fan and cult followings enable creativity. So this just blew me away.

The company now holds a total of 63 patents and has 194 applications pending. This newest TCS invention allows presence information to be provided at the same time that location information is being requested of a wireless device. The company explains that the Presence information is the status of the wireless user such as “available” or “unavailable” or “busy.”

Hänsler told CNN that although the service will remain free for users, ultimately aka-aki intends to sell profile space to commercial ventures. "A shop or brand can have a profile at aka-aki and you could 'meet' a shop, or a shop could tell who is passing it every morning and maybe offer that person a voucher for something, or tell them when they have special offers," he said.

Aka-aki is currently focused on Bluetooth technology, because it's so widespread in cell phones, but the GPS technology in Apple's iPhone is even more exciting, because of its ability to pinpoint the position of its users outdoors, with the iPhone's wi-fi detection performing a similar function indoors.

Mobile social networking is soon becoming a buzz word in India and why not after all India does boast of over 300 million mobile subscribers and social networking is a fad that has moved from Orkut To Facebook but hasn’t died down in India. Infact Indian social networks boast of some really big numbers being added to their database these days. Mobile social networking is limited to the small mobile screens and what you can to with tiny key pads and get your message across. One has to create a different experience on mobile than what’s on the web. Internationally location based mobile social networking is something that many iPhone developers are working on.

At BSI we usually play around with brands and products to see if new ideas would generate new business. For the last 4 months we are working on a project in Japan to see if the Japanese and Pacific Rim Culture accept a branded mobile social network – namely a Hello Kitty Mobile Social Network. Based on heavy mobile coding and several dummies tested we found out that especially women would appreciate such a service and even accept other brand partners within the Hello Kitty network.

IF NEWBAY was truly at the leading edge of mobile lifestreaming, wouldn't someone from the company be evangelising on Twitter or Jaiku? Newbay software is smart enough to gather all social networking activities in one place. I would like this on my Nokia E90. I would like Newbay to entice me via tweets or Jaikus. I'm Topgold on both. Press releases from NewBay also cite Friendfeed but where is NewBay's room on Friendfeed? If your game is social networking software, you might want to swim with 400 Irish already using microblogging services.

Friendster Text Alerts is a new technology to cover all activities of network users Friendster, and then sent directly to the phone via text message or SMS (Short Messages Services).

Friendster Text Alerts is the second in mobile phone technology that offers the completeness of the mobile site Friendster, which has been successful before, namely m.friendster.com, which has been launched in May 2008 and then. When Friendster launched Text Alerts, users can subscribe to receive text messages from friends, new messages, comments, bulletin, and so forth.

I have long believed that location-based mobile social networking is central to how technology will connect us. The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people’s familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is – finally – ready to take off. Here is a very quick review of the past, present, and future of the space.

The concept of a connected address book really takes hold in the mobile space when it’s a pain to navigate the web to look someone up. Yahoo has their oneConnect client for the iPhone. LinkedIn and Plaxo also have mobile interfaces.

So who is going to build the most compelling mobile address book? What are the most important elements?

Yahoo! is preparing to launch a social-networking application for smart-phone users called oneConnect, following successful previews in the US.

The application will allow users to integrate all their contacts from their Yahoo! Address Book and selected social networks onto their smartphone.

They will then be able to send instant or SMS messages, post their status, and view the latest activity from social networks. An initial version is due to be released in the US on Friday (September 26) and a UK version is due to follow early next year.

The initial version will support Bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.

We are a social network that allows you to keep in contact with your friends and associates, share, push and pull content with all the other social places - including, but not limited, to Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Blogger and more - which means from youmeo you can manage and update your identities with one login. We have just over 400,000 users now and we aim to exceed 1 million registrations by Christmas."

“Social, athletic, upwardly mobile” young men — “bros,” to some — looking for a venue to share stories of weekend revelries and exchange tips on romantic endeavours need search no longer.

Brobible.com, a national organization with an emerging chapter at Yale, will launch an online forum Oct. 15. Its tagline: “Every Bro Has A Story.”

And apparently the stories of Yale’s “bros” are worth telling.

Mobile social networking site Moko is in the process of electing its first President and is calling on its 100,000 Australian members (known as Mokies) to step up to the task by posting a nomination video of themselves on the Moko website. The potential candidates are then whittled down until a President is elected — the winner will walk away with AU$10,000 in prizes.

I have a good vantage point of the mobile social networking opportunity: The largest social networking providers, wireless carriers, content providers and OEMs are using my company’s Anthem platform as the backbone of their mobile social networking strategies and roadmaps. I more or less know what everyone is planning in this space up to about 18 months out. Everyone is doing something similar, yet everyone is approaching it very differently, (if that makes sense) and the end result is going to be a very rich user experience.

JuiceCaster, the mobile social media application, partners with Photobucket, which will enable JuiceCaster users to instantly post mobile videos and picture messages from their mobile phones directly to their Photobucket account.