Summer starts late in San Francisco, and in honor of our warm October, we’re leaving the laptops at home and taking off for the beach with nothing but our cell phones. Most early efforts at building communities for cell phones in the US have centered around adding a mobile component to pre-existing real-world or web communities. The rest of the world has become comfortable with communities that exist primarily in the cellular sphere, and now startups here are hoping the US is ready to join in. Developers are creating tools that enable mobile communities, whether that means building communities around their own products or allowing you to create your community around any common bond.
Who
- WAPtags is a mobile search and bookmarking site that is building an ad-hoc community around search results. Users can leave comments on sites, creating conversations and connections between visitors who found the site through WAPtags.
- Twitter is built to let you take an online community - your friends, blog readers, or site visitors - and make a mobile community around them. Users can send SMS updates to Twitter which are saved online and can be posted to website or sent to friends’ phones.
- TextMarks allows people to create instantaneous mobile communities based solely on text messages. Anyone can define a key word and choose an automated response when that keyword is sent to the system. But a community is created when users allow people to subscribe to the key word, then any subscriber to send messages to the group allowing anyone with a keyword, whether they know each other or not, to join in.
When
Wednesday, September 20, 7-9 p.m.
Where
CNET HQ
235 2nd Street
San Francisco
Each speaker will have 15 minutes to talk about their product, its origins, and give a brief demonstration. You will have some time to mix with the speakers and other participants before and after the presentations, so don’t be shy.
Thanks to CNET for providing us a venue that can fit about 100 people. Attendees with an appetite are asked to donate $5 to cover pizza and bottled water either at the event or in advance using PayPal.
Please RSVP in the comments below so we may properly prepare the room and food for the event. Thanks to Eric Lin of PhoneScoop for organizing this month’s speakers.
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See you all there…Is Paris Hilton attending also ( for those of you who attended the CTIA…you will understand this joke)
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do you know if taking bart with be safe at 9pm in that part of the town? I am new to SF. Thanks.
Yes, BART service at the Montgomery station is safe at 9 o’clock. I’ve been in and around that station many times late at night.
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V. cool. We’re working on a dogster/catster phone app, so hoping I can be there.
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Mobile communities…yay!!!
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