MoSoSo

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MoSoSo, or mobile social software, is software -- generally on a mobile phone or on a laptop computer -- that facilitates social encounters, or mobile social networking by associating geographical location and time with one's own social network.

The basic idea of a MoSoSo is to overlay a location and time element to the idea of digital networking. So it enables you to find people in your vicinity and at that time for social, sexual/dating or business networking. It's worth noting that the time variable is often overlooked in analysis of MoSoSo dynamics. [1]

  • iPling - Personal broadcasting, kind of like turning on our telepathy switches. You'd be surprised by all the amazing people that pass you by and can enrich your life!
  • Meetro - Meet people with similar interests in a local area to you. Works on various IP based devices.
  • Socialight - Location-based mobile social network that let's you create, share and discover virtual Sticky Notes with friends. Web, WAP, SMS and Java interfaces.
  • BuZZone - Makes it easier for people to search for new contacts and communicate using Bluetooth PDAs and laptops.
  • Dodgeball - Focuses on merging location-based services with social networks to help people connect with the people and places around them.
  • Earthcomber - Provides communities of common interests with web interface and free-distribution mobile application to create, organize, share, and discover locations, as well as locate other people by traits or interest, in a real-time point-of-interest exchange. Currently has maps and content for the USA only.
  • Festuc - Users can go to any club or bar and see who's near, use alerts on their friends or other interesting people on the network, by SMS or WAP (Spanish)
  • Jambo Networks - A group/affinity-based mososo that uses proximity to find people within the same group nearby.
  • My MoSoSo - Uses Wi-Fi's peer-to-peer "Ad-Hoc" mode to introduce you to interesting people who are within 300 feet of your location.
  • Pinppl - Application that allows RIM and Blackberry users to create a profile, upload pictures, and tag people who they like.
  • Plazes - Plazes' goal is to make sure you are at the right place, with the right people at the right time.
  • Saki Mobile - Mobile Community with online extension that allows members to interact through unified interface whether on phone or computer. Referred to by reviewers as the "Myspace of mobiles"
  • Sensor - Aims to help users form spontaneous social circles through their Nokia brand phones.
  • Winksite - Winksite makes it easy to publish mobile websites and build simple social connections via mobile phones. .
  • playtxt - Location based mobile community and social network supporting SMS and J2ME location based instant messenger.
  • SLAM - Slam is a Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group research project, developed in conjunction with the Microsoft Photo and Imaging eXperience (PIX) team. It is a mobile device-based application that enables lightweight, group-centric real-time communication, location awareness and photo-sharing.
  • yolo.mobi - A WAP, BREW and J2ME mobile social phonebook application that incorporates location and activity status, event planning, local search and group texting.
  • Zingku - Zingku enables individuals and businesses to "mobilize their passion" by leveraging their personal network through mobile, im, email and web.
  • KushCash - Is a P2P social lending community build around the cell phone user.
  • Podmo - Allows users to download event timetables and co-ordinate movements at social events.It is predicted to grow 400% in the next year.


An emerging trend within the MoSoSo community is MoSoSo advertising. There is already experimentation of this going on in the UK and Europe.


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