February 13, 2007
Mobile social netoworking, via cell, taking off
While people have been using their cell phones to send text messages to friends and relatives for years, technology companies and carriers are expanding this ability to unite people with friends and strangers, writes the Denver Post.
"Chat rooms, once a bastion of the personal computer, have exploded on cell phones. The experience of typing in messages to friends, or hooking up with potential new ones is being replicated in the mobile world.
Instead of sending text or e-mail messages to friends via cell phone, mobile chat rooms let users interact with people of similar interests, for example snowboarding or local bands. It's different from sending a text message to someone you know, as messages in chat rooms appear on the cell phones of all users in that particular room.
Companies that offer mobile chat services include AirG - where ssers spend an average 59 minutes each day chatting -- on and off -- according to Fred Ghahramani, founder and CEO of AirG, - Power Chat and Upoc."
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