Yes, LBS without having to enter my location manually :) - Sean Alexander
yes, i agree. first one to figure this out correctly is going to win big. much larger opportunity than twitter via sms or Facebook on the iPhone - Michael Gartenberg
I agree. This may evolve in places like India & Africa where people have access to mobile, but not PCs. Or so ISTM. - shelisrael1
I'm really looking forward LBS on the 3G iPhone. Twinkle is fun for now on the 2G iPhone, but the user-base in Toronto is quite small. - Granteezy
This is what I like about twitter - how good it is in SMS. - Soulhuntre
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It has the potential to be bigger then Web based social networks. I wrote my thoughts on it here, including some monetization strategies. - Ross Maguire
What interests me is how often the market leader technology is ignored to court the "wow" factor of the A-listers. The iphone is, statistically, a trivial part of the market yet companies liek Qik will pander to it long before building a Windows Mobile version - to get the Techcrunch link. - Soulhuntre
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Blue Pulse is cool but i want more than that... i've already invested in too many social network, anything new must play with all of them - Michael Gartenberg
Look at the adoption rates Gennefer.. it's already happening. many so called smartphones are free or little cost. Even the mighty 3G iPhone is down to $99 - Michael Gartenberg
It will be interesting to see where the innovation comes from. The web 2.0 crowd is just starting to think about the mobile space. The mobile folks have suffered under the domination of carriers, awful devices & OS's, and related afflictions that they are just getting over the demoralization of the past decade or more. I think it takes a while to start to "get" the new possibilities in mobile. In many ways it is the opposite of the PC based Internet, and simple location enabling is not enough in my view. - Dean Terry
The space will really only open up after next February when the 700MHz spectrum opens up for next-gen mobile devices. Wait. - Andrew Feinberg
Gennefer, i'll bite.. Name some names? what phones don't cut it? why? and what's a smartphone for that matter :) - Michael Gartenberg
Just looking at it, but BluePulse doesn't seem to know where you are. And you shouldn't have to tell it. Just to start, mobile social apps should know where you are, where you've been, what / who is around you, and then eventually begin creating & filtering persistent place & people based data. - Dean Terry
not sure i'd call the latter two phones smartphones, it's way i stopped using the term in research... meets a tech definition but not a logical.. i'd argue that most WinMo devices and the iPhone are as powerful as the n95 - Michael Gartenberg
@Dean Terry: Totally agree. And just want to add: Jaiku's S60 mobile client does the things you describe -- it's a very cool mobile app. - karen2
You know how in some films the place is a central character itself? That's what it's like in mobile. Whereas the Internet is an abstract non-place where we're supposed to forget where we are, place matters in the mobile experience. In my view this will be a big part of the "unexploited intersection" that Michael hints at. - Dean Terry
Brightkite seems promising, but virtual interaction, games & searches on mobiles are still too cumbersome - Roger Penguino
twitter would be much more interesting if the "via" was not a device/user agent but instead a set of geo-coordinates for an interface like brightkite. brightkite needs to be geo-aware to be viable long term. these 2 services seem to be where the communities are now but they are largely redundant. twitter's poor service has hurt them in expanding the metadata associated with a tweet. brightkite is adding twitter like functionality of late, we'll see who wins or whether another player emerges, like loopt - rob zand
