Mobile social networking is building up a head of steam, although it has to be said that much of the hype is focused on the mobile efforts of the big Web firms like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, despite the fact that a lot of the innovation is coming from mobile startups.
iPhone offers an opportunity for the latter to grab some of those column inches. Influential tech blogger Michael Arrington is already on the case, with an enthusiastic post about an unnamed startup working on a social networking app for iPhone:
“It shows you everyone around you who has it installed on an iPhone (default privacy is set to off, but can be changed). Users can scroll through nearby users, and set filters for men, women or age ranges. If you find someone interesting you can pull up their profile and ping them. If they respond you can start a chat, on the phone or in person. Of course, they can also choose to block you.”
It apparently uses the iPhone’s built-in triangulation tech to identify nearby users, in the absence of GPS. Arrington also suggests that the startup has found a way around the fact that native iPhone apps won’t be able to run in the background when you’re using an iPhone. He’s not allowed to say how though. The shots above are mockups, apparently. Thoughts?
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