Mobile Ministry Magazine: Social Networking on Windows Mobile Smartphones

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Social Networking on Windows Mobile Smartphones

A recent posting over at the Mobile Gadgeteer talks about a new application for Windows Mobile smartphones called SLAM (Social, Location, Annotation, and Mobile). Much like Facebook or MySpace, SLAM allows for people to connect over various subjects and geographic areas.
Image: The SLAM Map, via SLAM

One of the more interesting aspects of this is not so much that it another social network application, but that it is facilitated within the use of smartphones. In my opinion, applications/services such as social networks are only best used when you can connect with a person in person as well as online. A recent article that I read spoke about a person who had a lot of "friends" via MySpace, but that person just found themself at the computer all the time. They never were encouraged to actually go out and commune with people with those networks. By using a phone/smartphone as the agent for interacting with the application/service, a social network can then take on the personality of actually going out and being social.

Visit the SLAM website to download SLAM for your Windows Mobile smartphone and let us know what communites you get started.

Am I the only one who thinks that something like this could really make into a church of a different kind. Tis interesting...