It is hoped that in the future, ad hoc networks will emerge as an effective complement to infrastructure wired and wireless LANs and even wide area-mobile networking services.
Then we started a mobile ad network, mobile social networking service, and mobile social games.
They are working on Android, iPhone, Windows mobile apps to become a full White Label mobile social networking service.
Origami, which itself grew out of the ashes of a private mobile social networking service called Everyme, offers families a web and mobile platform to share photos and videos and post text-based entries, as well as make announcements and organize photos into albums.
Tencent has the most expansive international plans, both through investments like the Activision buyout announced last week and by aggressively marketing WeChat, its mobile social networking service that competes with Facebook outside the United States.
That was a big selling point for Foursquare, the mobile social networking service that brought Andreessen Horowitz into its $20 million Series B funding in June 2010.
Aka-aki has been running its mobile social networking service for about two years now and says its community is growing much faster than anticipated.
Loopt has the most tightly integrated and feature rich mobile social networking service we've seen, and we've seen a bunch.
Other announced investments include mobile social networking service Pelago (which makes Whrrl) and iControl (which lets you control you home security through your home network and your iPhone).
Equintek, an international game development company founded by a group of international investors and entrepreneurs, has invested approximately $1 million in Friends Around Me, a yet-to-launch mobile social networking service with added geo-awareness.
And, in just the past few weeks, Skout, the mobile social networking service, shut down its teen service when three incidents of rape were reported involving adult users and teens who had met using the app.
