It means that Vodafone customers can update their Twitter status by sending a text message to 86444, and will receive messages in return whenever people in their friend network post a new update on the microblogging service. Customers can also click on the links included within tweets to visit the relevant web page on their mobile phone.

3 Ireland is the latest network to adopt the Bebo Open Mobile programme, which is designed to enable third parties to offer and integrate with the eponymous social networking site in double quick time.

Specifically, 3 Ireland is launching the Bebo Open Mobile Messaging and Media toolkit, which will allow its customers to connect directly to friends by text and watch free video content.

Mobixell, a leading provider of innovative Mobile Multimedia Messaging, Mobile TV, and Mobile Advertising solutions has announced today the introduction of its Social Media Gateway Solution. The solution, which supports adaptation and streaming of social media networks' video, audio, and image content, will enable operators for the first time to offer their subscribers Social Network and User Generated Content directly to their mobile phone over the very popular MMS and SMS services.

Airwide® Solutions, (MR 566) the leading provider of next-generation mobile messaging and mobile internet infrastructure, applications and solutions, today unveiled a separately scalable Service Innovation Module designed to help operators rapidly launch high quality applications. The Service Innovation Module also enables operators to enhance existing and upcoming services with unique assets, context and intelligence while minimizing cost and without disruption to the existing infrastructure.

Motorola, Inc. today introduced Motorola Evoke™ QA4, a socially-inclined device with a 2.8" full touch-screen that keeps you constantly connected. Evoke supports different messaging styles with a full touch-screen QWERTY keyboard and slide out traditional keypad. Customize the home screen content with integrated widgets and personalized RSS feeds(1), and use the full HTML browser(1) to share pictures, videos and more online.

Cliqset Mobile for the iPhone is a social networking application built atop the revolutionary Cliqset social identity platform.

With Cliqset Mobile you have the ability to manage your Cliqset identity and interact and share information with the people you know across all Cliqset-enabled applications.

THE proposed monitoring and archiving of users’ contacts on social networking sites such as Facebook and My Space would represent yet another erosion of our civil liberties for a negligible gain to our national security.

The premise that an international criminal network would blow its cover and reveal its dastardly plans via the pages of Facebook is absurd in the extreme. Surely even the most inept of criminal gangs and potential terrorists the Home Office is concerned with would move around the web using any number of aliases and internet cafes to disguise their tracks.

First, Last.fm announced that international users (those living outside of the US, UK, or Germany) will have to start paying for radio streaming, and now they’ve effectively banned all third party mobile clients. In a post on their official blog, Last.fm is stressing that “the mobile device restriction isn’t set in stone” and that they “may be able to make an exception”.

With the power that the iphone platform has to offer, the developers are developing application for about everything. You put your requirement and there is an application already for it. One such category of applications is the social networking application. Due to the demand of the people for social networking applications, there is a flood of applications in this category and today’s application about which is talk about also belongs to the same category and is called Storyz.

Nixle and VeriSign have created an SMS social network specifically for police and municipal forces in the US. The new service allows them to communicate at a neighborhood-level to spread community and safety information.

VeriSign has created the messaging platform along the lines of other SMS social networks. Since the messages will be coming from law enforcement and government agencies, security is paramount. Nixle will be providing security to ensure that only trusted and authentic messages are delivered on the channel.

Oasys Mobile, Inc., a leading provider of premium mobile entertainment, announced today a partnership agreement with Dijit to develop and publish a Girls Gone Mobile dijit, using Dijit’s advanced social commerce widget platform. The Girls Gone Mobile dijit will be available March 26, 2009

Citysearch, one of the granddaddies of online local resource providers, is jumping on two of the hottest trends in computing: social media and mobile. Thursday's Citysearch announced an expansion from 150 local city guides to over 75,000 cities and neighborhoods across the countries. Dinesh Moorjani, senior vice president for Citysearch Mobile said the new mobile service is designed to make it easier for users to find "relevant local information from anywhere they choose and participate in the online conversation."

Britain has come another frightening step closer to becoming more of a police state than it already is.

“The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo,” says ZDNet UK.

Nimbuzz (http://www.nimbuzz.com) and Giovani.it today announce a revenue-sharing partnership. Giovani.it (published by Banzai spa), the biggest Italian-speaking social networking community portal with over 2 million active members, that integrates the Nimbuzz technology into its existing site, bringing real-time web and mobile communication capabilities to members for the first time.

Wefi, the “Hotspot” based social network is now available to download through the S60 download catalog. By the way I hope they took in to account my remarks about the potential of the client to serve as a wefi-mobilemobile social network specially, when LBS and mobile social networks are prospering.
There are two issues that disturbs me with the client, the first is that it runs on background, but that can be partly solved by opening Wefi before every search for a wi-fi spot.

As the range of mobile social networking services and applications grow, innovative companies are looking to reach a broader user base by utilizing basic mobile phone functionalities like SMS. Launched yesterday, YellowPin is enabling anyone to locate and update friends within their networks, regardless of handset capabilities. Using your existing Facebook network, subscribers can inform friends of their locations and activities – whether at a business networking event, a sports game or local pub – simply by updating their status through the Facebook online application or sending a text to 555888 with their location.

YellowPin is transforming online socializing into in-person interactions for people who want to expand and connect their online network to real life activities.

BuddyMob is a free mobile application from Kiboo for Android handsets. It provides access to a variety of social networks (Twitter, MSN, Gtalk and AIM) from a mobile device, with one log-in. Kiboo has announced a whole slew of updates to be made to the app, after feedback from BuddyMob users - most importantly that the Android app is being released for both iPhone and Symbian later this year.

The publication of the new white paper by Peggy Anne Salz, highlights that in the personal world of mobile social networks, advertising that encourages two-way interaction between advertisers and consumers will be more successful than conventional "push" style banner ads. The report suggests that virtual gifting is seen by many as the starting point for cultivating this two-way conversation.

For now, all attention is focused on Mobile Advertising For The Masses, my new-release white paper timed to CTIA and an essential read for marketers who want to tap into mobile social networks (and the ad networks they provide) to drive positive results. This time I evaluate the analytics capabilities offered by three ad networks: BuzzCity (BuzzCity), itsmy.com (itsmy.biz), and Peperonity (AdMob). I also compare the depth and breadth of analysis they provide, and examine the need for an additional comprehensive mobile analytics package to connect the dots, fill in the gaps, and give me the big picture view of what my campaigns achieved and how I might use this insight to plan and target future campaigns.

/MapZaps software and mobile social networking portal is All about Sharing with the people you know and the places they go. Expand your world with the help of friends.
o Discover places, movies, and events by seeing where your friends are going.
o Share experiences with your friends.
o Keep up with the places you've been and the places you want to go.
o Share your location with your on the go friends.