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Nokia’s Plan To Enter The Micro-Blog Business: Create Our Own And Put In All The Decks

by Jason Wilk on November 7, 2008

Friend View is Nokia’s experimental mobile location and micro-blogging service that also works via standard web.
The application uses the built-in GPS, network triangulation, or manual updates to decide where you are.
Once logged-in, it pinpoints you as well as all your friends who are on the service.
Instead of Twitter’s ‘What Are You Doing’ question, Nokia asks ‘What’s Up’.
I’m guessing this will roll out in Japan first as a test.
With Nokia as the smart phone leader, and also having the power to move this app onto every deck they manufacture, will this become an immediate threat to mobile social networks like Loopt and ever-growing Twitter?

by John Jorgensen on November 6, 2008

Follow him at http://twitter.com/al_gore.
As off 10:28 pm PST he has 5,203 followers and 3 posts, the latest of which touting his upcoming Digg Dialogg interview with Kevin Rose to be broadcast on http://current.com/digg on Friday @ 10pm.
All of his posts so far are “From the web,” blatantly exposing himself as a complete Twitter n00b for not using a desktop or iPhone client.
I spent about 10 minutes trying to come up with a clever title for this post, including such gems as “An Inconvenient Tweet,” “How to Win a Nobel in 140 Characters or Less,” and “Not Now Tipper, I’m Twittering.”

by Jason Wilk on November 5, 2008

Twitter’s joint venture partner in Japan, Digital Garage, launched Twicco, a service which let’s Twitter users create groups and then subscribe to them.
FriendFeed has the service already in the US (amongst other features Twitter needs), but it still can’t seem to beat them.
How long until we see this in the US?

by David Heyerman on October 2, 2008

by glu on September 12, 2008

Edmodo is a private platform for teachers and students to connect outside the classroom.
Strong emphasis on microblogging for class updates and private messaging from teacher to student or vice-versa (student to student messaging restricted.
Target education levels are K-12. The platform is closed off in order to address the privacy concerns that many teachers have with Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Does the educational sector need a platform that is segregated from the larger social networks?