aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, February 11, 2008

Facebook phones

Not yet. But soon. In the meantime, these plugins make your phone Facebook aware:

CityWare, was launched last summer. If you get close enough to another person who is also running the plugin on their phone, you are provided with a link to their profile the next time you login to Facebook. It was developed as part of a research project also called CityWare, partly funded by HP, Nokia and Vodafone.

Kostakos is working on more plugins, one of which really brings social networking and phones together.

Called Little Bird, it gets your phone to update you with information from your friends’ profiles whenever you meet them. “When you walk into a room, a message on your phone tells you what events your friends in the room are attending in the near future,” explains Kostakos.

Via Andrew Sullivan, “Online cruising just took a quantum leap forward.”