Mobile Content
Social Networking
List of social networking providers that offer mobile phone-based
services for sharing personal content, such as files, photos, notes, messages
and blogs, with other people.
Remotely access and share your content from your cell phone. Share access
with anyone, wherever you are. Most services are free (excluding wireless
carrier fees) and let you control who sees what content. Use the mobile
Web addresses on your cell phone.
- America's
Best Mobile Pix – Submit your photos for a chance to win prizes.
View and vote on pictures from your Sprint Picture Mail account. By
FunMail, creators of America's Best Mobile Pix.
- Cyworld – Popular Korean-language
social networking service. Create your own "virtual room."
Access from cell phones. Also Cyworld
Japanese and Cyworld Chinese.
Owned by South Korean-based SK Telecom.
- Facebook Mobile
– Popular social networking site offers mobile Web, uploads and
text.
- Facebook for iPhone –
Facebook site customized for use with iPhone handsets.
- Friendster Mobile –
Popular online social networking service offers mobile service in the
Philippines to Sun Cellular, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications
subscribers.
- JuiceCaster Beta –
Create content and blogs to share with your friends on your cell phones.
- mobikade – Ad-funded mobile
social networking service with free content such as games.
- Mobile Faker – Got
an awkward social or work dilemma? Schedule a Faux Call for your handset
to rescue you. InstaLife: Wallpapers to create fake boyfriends, girlfriends,
pets and lives. Rejection Lines: Creative and humorous lines to end
bad dates.
- MocoSpace – Free mobile
phone community. Chat, forums, relationships, and share files.
- Motorola Share
– Remote access and content sharing service for owners of select
Motorola handsets.
- MySpace Mobile – Very
popular social networking community. Downloadable Java client for mobile
access for AT&T (Cingular) and Helio subscribers.
- Twitter – Social networking
and micro-blogging service allows users to send text updates" via SMS,
instant messaging or Mobile Web. Mobile Web: http://m.twitter.com.
- WattPad – Read and share
user-supplied stories and text files on your mobile phone.
- WebDate Mobile – Popular
singles and dating site in North America has a mobile feature.
- Yahoo! Mobile: Photos
– Upload, save and share your photos via cell phone. Turn your
favorite photos into screen-savers.
- Yahoo! 360° –
Send text and photos from your mobile phone to your blog. Also see Yahoo!
Mobile: Mobile access to Yahoo! 360° Blog.
Note – There are two markup languages used to design mobile
Web pages and referenced above. Your mobile phone browser may or may not
support them:
- HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) – is Openwave's
proprietary Web markup language. HDML pages can only be viewed on Web-enabled
mobile phones that use an Openwave browser. HDML was developed before
WAP. It uses Openwave's Handheld Device Transport Protocol (HDTP) instead
of WAP.
- WML (Wireless Markup Language) – is an open Web markup
language developed by Openwave and based on HDML. WML pages can be viewed
on any mobile device that supports WAP. WML is supported by almost every
mobile phone browser around the world.
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