Monday, April 14, 2008

Social Network Through Mobile

Social Network is a famous issue/site in current technology world. It is a best way to create linkages among individuals. Having accounts and adding friends in it is not a tedious task. Most of the social networks have interesting ideas in different ways. Users can happily and easily integrate the interfaces and add their preferred features. Currently, huge number of people is using it through computers. How if social network is implemented through mobile? Will the number of users increase?

MyBlogLog came out with an excellent idea in it. It started at eTech and SXSW to use Bluetooth technology to find surrounding people at a particular moment. It is a simple way to identify people. User requires installing Java applet and relating the Bluetooth ID to the user’s MyBlogLog ID. As a return, user will be able to see all the other MyBlogLog members within a range of destination. It claims that the range could be 30 feet.

Source:http://www.techcrunch.com/page/2/

The interface shows two parts in a page. First is “People Around You” which means displaying those people are being somewhere in the range. Second is “People Encountered Most” which shows people in a closer range at a particular moment.

Source:http://www.techcrunch.com/page/2/

In my perception, I believe it is most suitable idea for office staff, travelers, and business people. They meet various types of people with different interest, culture, and habit in their daily life. Isn’t it important to keep in touch with them? So, they can easily add them in MyBlogLog in order to keep in touch instead of getting their contact information which may disappear or change anytime.

As a user of current computer social network, I think I may use it once I move into career life. So, what about you?