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Social Networking From Your Cell
A small startup VCEL (Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) has unveiled a new social networking service for cell phones. All you need to do to keep in contact with your friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download a Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies. Here we go: you can exchange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You'd have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.
US only?
Splendid! Yet another way to watch my friends leave their accounts idle or away for months at a time.
Facebook.com isn't distracting enough already. Now I can assure that my productively plummets to the Earth's core.
There are only so many friends that any one person has. Friends of friends make for interesting conversation, but ultimately there is no relationship friends of friends. Extend that even further outwards towards friends of friends of friends and you are now talking about perfect strangers. It's like playing the Kevin Bacon game, but without any of the fun.
What is the benefit of having a huge social network if you're not directly linked to the people who are in the network? It's not like you can call them up and crash at their place. More time should be spent cultivating actual relationships and not trying to make a game out of creating links where none actually exist.
The real next boom in cellphone software services is mobile blogging. Snap a shot while walking and upload and comment on the picture.
Call me old-fashioned, but I can exchange comments and plan activities with my friends by - GASP! - calling them!
-"Hey, man, fancy a beer?"
-"Sure!"
But hey, at least their FAQ mentions a "tickr". VC's of the world, unite!
I can already see the next gen of this: Cells that let you call your friend and tell them you want to meet!
Gosh. I'm bouncy.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Answered my own question about the MySpace biz.
http://pub.vcel.net/how.aspx
Apparently you'll be able to check your MySpace profile for updates, amongst other things.
http://www.vcel.net/vcel_contact.php
One of their Board of Advisors is David Rogan - President Cisco Systems Capitol, Vice President of Finance at Cisco Systems?
I don't know what to make of that.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I thought the Department of Corrections was allowing inmates expanded Constitutional Rights... but alas, it is just more telephonic gimmicky crap I do not need.
So, wait. I see Verizon offering this as part of their music/video package. So I can dance to the latest tunes while shopping for clothes and scheduling something with my friends with this social networking. Wow....
Seriously. This stuff is so stupid. Why not actually use the phone and TALK to your friends?
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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A better use is vobbo's video blog + video phone integration, where you can post pictures and video from the phone to the web. Don't try to type with a silly keypad, don't try to view video/picture on limited resolution, use it as an input device and get back to using the web the way you meant to all along.
Get the media online quickly and easily, that's what people really seem to care about, anyway.
Mooniacs for iOS and Android
Sounds great! Now do these "friends" come with the service or are they separate download? Is there torrent?
Finally a way to stay in touch with all my felonious friends!
Sort of, you're closer than you think however. The *Real* next boom in cell phone services is sexual profiling. Follow me for a moment...
Imagine having everything on your cell phone. Hell, even your genetic profile. On this cell phone, you would have your stated likes and dislikes much like a match.com or eharmony profile. Also, you would have your sexual profile available too. From here, you could walk down the street into a mall or bar. Within movements, your cell phone would vibrate the closer you got to a potential prospect. If you're lucky, you would be fucking your brains out in the next 10 minutes...
Welcome to the new western sexual revolution. It's coming. Are you ready? Is society ready???
Life is not for the lazy.
If I were to remain in contact with my friends 24/7, I'm fairly sure they wouldn't remain friends for very long. And they would probably feel likewise about me.
Social networking with a phone? What ELSE is one supposed to do with a phone???
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