Google starts Mobile Social Networking, via SMS service on orkut

"With orkut's new SMS feature, you can scrap your friends, look up their contact information and receive scrap notifications. Now you can send scraps from the bus, bar or bathroom, and your friends can get notified of those scraps when on bicycle, beach or bed. Along with the standard orkut features, we've included a few hidden goodies for the adventurous to find."

This is the first step towards social networking via sms. Soon with Location Enabled Services, you could be able to find friends in any area etc. There you go , Google !!!

33 Billion SMS Messages on New Year

It is estimated that there were 33 Billion SMS Messages on  new Year.
Considering that the current world population is around 6.6 Billion, that's a lot of messages.

So it seems, SMS is the communication of choice when it comes to sending greetings !

Getting local search on the mobile

Finding the local content using a search engine is at the heart of Mobile search.



Intrestingly there are applications like 877-520-FIND.



This is like Yellow pages on your mobile

If you are searching for a shop in near vicinity, Just sms the name shop/biz you are looking for to 877-520-3463.

And service is free of charge and Ads. So how do they make money ?



"However surprisingly it's turning out to be much tougher to find a
local pizza restaurant than it is to search the globe. There's a lot of
effort going into Local Search and it's tough to stay on top of it and
see the wood for the trees"



That sums it up.

Service providers blocking url's clicks by sms? A Open problem.

One of the easiest way of sharing a link , is just send it as an sms. But some of this links can automatically download some malicious code taking down the entire network with it. And that is the reason that service providers are so wary of these features and have blocked it.



But, this is an intresting proposition for security services on mobile phones. With more and more interesting sms applications,service providers will have to open up there shackles and strengthen themself using strong mobile security services.

powered by performancing firefox