There are, frankly, far too many mobile startups in the world, many with unpronounceable names and blurry business models. Last year, there were 178 mobile social networking firms all claiming to be the next Facebook, while there’s now a roughly equivalent number of mobile VoIP startups. Hell, they could just be the same companies with frantically-rewritten mission statements when The Buzz moved on.Anyway, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some good ‘uns out there. VentureBeat has just announced the 30 participants in its MobileBeat conference, hailing them as the cream of the mobile technology crop. And while some are over-familiar – Facebook gets in, strangely – the full list is well worth a look.To pick out a few of the more interesting ones: Jibe Mobile lets you discover and share web content from your phone, mBit is a P2P file-sharing service, Whrrl is location-based social networking, and Xumii aggregates all of your social networks and IM clients on the go. Numobiq is also intriguing, being a technology that claims to turn normal mobiles into smartphones.
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