Locle allows you select the friends with whom you want to share your location. It also lets you update your location manually or disable it in case you do not want to be found. If you use Facebook, it lets you retrieve your friend list.

Features:

• Share your location and view where your family and friends are from your mobile phone or computer.
• You can import your Facebook friends and invite them to use Locle.
• Manually update your location or temporarily disable it.
• Share your location with selected people.
• Similar tools: SeeMyWhere, Loopt and NavXS.

Check out Locle @ www.locle.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• SeeMyWhere: Share Your Real Time Location With Others
• Loopt: See Where Your Friends Are From iPhone or Mobile
• Spokeo : Find and Track Your Friends
• Scred : Track Shared Expenses
• Sailwx: Real Time Ship Tracking

Loopt also provides you with detailed maps that show where your friends are and what they are doing. Furthermore you can easily share your location, photos and comments with your Loopt friends. And if you’re looking for some nice place in the nearby area you can check out all the cool places recommended by your friends.

To get Loopt on your mobile, simply register by going to the Loopt sign up page. Enter your information, and an invitation link will be sent to your mobile, just follow the link and install software onto your device. Other methods are also listed, to learn more visit Loopt help page. Individual installation guides for iPhone, BlackBerry, Verizon (non-BlackBerry), MetroPCS are also available.

Feature overview:

• Turn your mobile phone into a social compass
• Supports over 100 phones.
• Get alerts when your friends are nearby.
• Share your location, status and photos with others.
• Explore recommended places by friends.
• Easily turn it off you whenever you want.
• Supported wireless networks: At&t, Sprint, NexTel, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile, MetroPcs and Verizon.
• Service is available in United States only.
• Similar website: Brightkite.

Check out Loopt @ www.loopt.com

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• Locle: Share Your Location without GPS
• SeeMyWhere: Share Your Real Time Location With Others
• NavXS : Track your Friends’ Location from a Cell Phone
• Wishpot: Create Wish Lists by Adding Items From Any Website
• Waze: A GPS App To Avoid Traffic Jams

Skydeck can also analyze your call history and generate a social relationship graph showing the strength of your relationship with others based on the frequency and volume of calls, whether the calls were one-sided or reciprocal and how recent the calls were made.

Features:

• Track your calling behavior & relationships with others.
• Manage your calls online. See when and who called and how long it lasted.
• Search through your SMS message archives.
• Search your call history.
• See available talk time minutes and text messages.
• Currently available only in the United States.
• Absolutely free!

Check out SkyDeck @ www.skydeck.com

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• AddressBookOnline: Web Based Address Book
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YouArchiveIt: Backup iPhone SMS Messages Online
• WorldTexting: Send And Receive Text Messages On Your Computer
• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book

How does it work?

(1) Sing-up, verify your mobile number and create your virtual business card.
(2) To send someone your card, text his/her phone number (or email address) to 762763.
(3) The person receives your business card (or bizCard).

Features:

• Crate a virtual business card and share it with others via SMS.
• Edit and manage your contact information online.
• Add personal details, images and social networking links.
• Currently works only for US phone numbers.
• Standard SMS fees (from your mobile service provider) may apply.
• and more …

Here is a sample of bizCard that people will receive:

Check out rmbrME @ www.rmbrme.com

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• DropCard : Your Virtual Business Card
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YouArchiveIt: Backup iPhone SMS Messages Online

When you visit the website it allows you to download a plugin for your AIM messenger which further facilitates the process of checking your friends’ updates within your AIM chat window. The updates appear as alerts in your chat window and you can read them instantly or at a later time.

We have seen such features in multi-protocol IM clients like Pidgin and Digsby but this time it has been introduced by AOL itself and hence AIM fans need not rely on third party products or log on to other sharing sites again and again to check their friends updates.

Check out BuddyUpdates @ www.buddyupdates.aim.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• Twitsay : Send Voice Messages to Twitter
• Mail2.im: Forward Important Emails to IM, Mobile or Twitter
• Heysan: Chat with Friends Online from Mobile Phone
• Dexrex: Store AIM, GTalk, MSN, Yahoo, Skype Chat History Online

Slandr Features:

• Read replies and direct messages.
• Search through all recent Twitter postings (powered by Summize).
• Edit your location and view the locations of the friends.

For iPhone users there is something else though. If you’re on an iPhone then you should try Hahlo, which is basically an iPhone alternative to Slandr.

To access Slandr from you mobile device @ http://m.slandr.net

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• Posty: Desktop client for Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed & Others
• Zapr: Share Files Over The Internet From Your Desktop
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory

Before you can get started, all you need to do is create the Twitsay account. For this you’ll need your twitter username and password, and the phone number that you will be calling from. Depending on your location there are four different numbers you can use to call Twitsay:

• From United States call +1 646 912 7676
• From United Kingdom call +44 845 867 6679
• From Germany call +49 180 1020 650 681
• From Austria call +43 720 702 580
• More countries coming soon.

Once you leave the message it will appear on your Twitter account. Both you and your followers will be able to listen to it.

Keep in mind that while the Twitsay service is absolutely free, you may be charged by your services provider (for making a call) at standard local rates.

Go to Twitsay @ www.twitsay.com

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• Pockets: Send Voicemails to Twitter Users
• Pinger: Free Voice Messages to Any Mobile
• NetworkText: Text Messaging for Groups
• Chir.ps: Record Yourself & Share It On Twitter

One of the coolest features is the option to instantly publish voice recordings to any desired blog or social netwroking profile. All you need to do is dial provided number and record your message. Within a matter of seconds the message will appear on your Utterz profile, on your friends’ profiles and all other places you decided to distribute it to. Yu can also publish pictures and videos by simply emailing them to go@utterz.com.

Features:

• Share your thoughts, images, links, videos with friends and other Utterz users from your PC or mobile.
• There are about 25 dial-in numbers for different parts of the world. New numbers being added.
• Post to utterz by emailing your video, voice recording, picture, text message to go@utterz.com.
• You can post audio messages even from a landline phone.
• Automatically distribute your Utterz messages to your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc.
• Utterz widgets : Show any number of your latest Utterz messages on any of your wesbites.
• Share your messages only with friends or with everyone.
• Receive and reply to messages from other directly from mobile phone.
• Rate, save/tag, and comment on publicly shared Utterz.
• Access Utterz profile from mobile device at m.utterz.com.
• Utterz is a free service, though depending on your mobile contract regaular charges may apply.
• For additional details and howto’s see Utterz FAQ page.

[Video] Utterz Intro (from Utterz Co-founder)

Check out Utterz @ www.utterz.com

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• twitTangle: Organize Twitter Friends by Priority and Type
• TweetRush: Check Twitter Usage and Stats
• TweetManager: Automate Your Twitter Account

Features:

• Send group messages from instant messenger, email or mobile phone.
• Add contacts and create as many groups as you need.
• Manage and edit groups online.
• Group members are free to opt out from the froup at any time.
• IM support: At the moment Chatterous supports only GTalk.
• Coming soon: MSN, AIM and support for other instant messaging networks.
• Mobile Support: Works with US carriers only (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin and Alltel).
• It’s free

Check out Chatterous @ [ www.chatterous.com ]

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• BuddyStumbler: Meet New Friends Online For a Chat
• BigString: Virtual Instant Messenger and eMail Shredder
• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• WeBuzz.im: Online Multi Client IM Service
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together

Swaggle Features

• Send free SMS messages to groups.
• Create as many groups as you like.
• Accessible both from web and mobile phone: create/join groups, invite people, send messages etc.
• SMS commands: Use short text commands to add contacts, create groups, join groups etc.
• Avaialble only within United States

Check out Swaggle @ www.swaggle.mobi

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• textPlus: Send Free Text From iPhone & iPod Touch
• Tatango: Free and Easy Group Messaging System
• Peekamo
• NetworkText: Text Messaging for Groups

1. Access, retrieve and update profile information (ex. LinkedIN, Facebook): update your Facebook ’status’, get ‘un-read’ messages from your Facebook inbox, get someone’s profile info from LinkedIn, and lots more.

2. You can also use MoDazzle as a directory service: get driving directions, restaurant reviews, location of the nearest Starbucks, and so on.

MoDazzle Features

• Access your profile on: LinkedIN, Facebook, Lavalife, Salesforce.com, Hoovers, and VentureSource.
• Additional services: latest news, Stock quotes, weather forecasts, driving directions, nearest Starbucks locations, restaurant reviews, flight updates, yellow pages. See how here.
• Invite friends from your Yahoo Mail or Gmail address books.
• Use MoDazzle from several email addresses or mobile phones.
• Note: Modazzle is a free service, however depending on your mobile contract standard text messaging fees may apply.

Examples:

For instance, to update your Facebook status you can either send an email to ‘fbprofilestatusupdate@modazzle.com’ with your new status message in the subject line, or send an SMS message to ‘22553′.

Check out MoDazzle @ www.modazzle.com

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• Trumpia: Last-Minute Event Planner
• 3Jam: Text Messaging Conversations for Groups
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile
• TextMemos: Free text message reminders.
• TellMe : Free Local Directory Assisstance

MobiLuck – Feature List:

• Share your current location with your Mobiluck friends and Messenger contacts (MSN, GTalk, etc.).
• Receive alerts when one of your friends is in close proximity.
• Chat with MSN contacts right from your phone (coming soon: support for your Yahoo, AOL, Skype and GTalk contacts).
• See all nearby MobiLuck users. Send them messages and photos for free.
• Choose between different visibility options: 1.visible to everyone, 2. visible to friends only, and 3.invisible.
• Supports over 200 mobile phones. See if your phone is supported here.
• Available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Deutsch, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic languages.
• Note: Mobiluck is a free service, but depending on your carrier plan data transfer charges may apply. For additional info go to Mobiluck FAQ page.

Check out MobiLuck @ www.mobiluck.com

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• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Trumpia: Last-Minute Event Planner
• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• MoDazzle: Access Facebook Account via email or SMS

Jaiku Features:

• Receive Jaikus (aka status messages) from friends and Post you own Jaikus.
• Add blog feeds to Jaiku, so that everyone in your friends list can instantly see what you have posted.
• Comment on Friend’s Jaikus.
• Text presence updates directly from mobile phone.
• Install Jaiku Mobile: Use Jaiku as your phonebook, Browse and post Jaikus, Add comments, Share your location and availability, Share your calendar events, Share who you’re with, etc.
• Put a Jaiku presence badge on your blog
• Got Questions? Check out Jaiku FAQ page.

Jaiku versus Twitter

Visit Jaiku @ www.jaiku.com

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• Twitter
• Tumblr: Easy Way to Blog and Share Stuff
• Trumpia: Last-Minute Event Planner
• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Pownce: Quick File Sharing + Group Messaging

ZYB Features

• Upload and share pictures with contacts directly from your mobile phone.
• Synchronize and Backup your phone contacts, text messages and calendar online.
• Connect with people on your phone’s contact list.
• Send free text messages to your contact/s.
• Everything you share, send or say in comments appears on your ZYB profile.
• Follow-up on updates from your friends (pictures, shouts, etc).
• Transfer data from your old phone to a new phone.
• Multi-lingual: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Danish, Dutch and Deutsch.
• Find out whether your phone is supported here. For additional questions go to ZYB faq page.

Check out ZYB @ www.zyb.com

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• Mobical: Backup Mobile Contacts, Address Book and Calendar
• DashWire: Synchronize and Backup your Mobile Phone to Web
• Bloove: Contact Manager for Your Mobile
• Anywr : Contact Manager + Calendar
• Vufone: Backup Your Mobile Data

Just text to 33033 and you can blast group calls, send music, jokes and text to hundreds of people instantly right from your phone, and much more.

Kadoink features

• Add friends (from mobile) and Create different friends groups (team, family, work, etc.)
• Send Group messages, Make group calls, Schedule messages/calls, Record calls, etc.
• Hide your phone number under so called mobile kTag.
• Keep everyone up-to-date on what you’re up to via ’status’.
• Send and share music tunes with one or a group of friends.
• Supported Phones: Any phone that can send and receive text messages and voice calls.
• More Questions? Go to Kadoink How It Works? page.

Check out Kadoink @ (www.kadoink.com)

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• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Trumpia: Last-Minute Event Planner
• Rondee: Phone Conference Calls
• MoDazzle: Access Facebook Account via email or SMS
• Mobiluck: Social Networking on Your Mobile

Peekamo Features

• Send single and group (upto 7 people) text SMS’s from your PC. You can also do the same from your mobile but in this case regular rates apply.
• Higher privacy: Messages are sent using peekamo ID, but people are able to respond back.
• Mobile social networking option allows you to connect to people either through the phone or online
• Unlimited text archive: Archive/Print your text messages
• and more …

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• textPlus: Send Free Text From iPhone & iPod Touch
• TextMemos: Free text message reminders.
• Tatango: Free and Easy Group Messaging System
• Swaggle : Simple Group Text Messaging

Features:

• Send single or group mobile text messages (1 message goes to entire group) right from mobile.
• Access your Zemble profile to create custom friend groups, i.e. classmatess, party, etc.
• Option to reply to Zemble sent messages either as reply all-to the entire group- OR reply only to message sender
• Zemble keeps track of all messages sent through it for future reference
• Create a profile on zemble and join or start various social networking communities

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