Posts Tagged ‘Social Mobile’

Waze app is a high-end navigation tool and also a social, fun experience that is free and completely user-generated. I had a chance to visit the Waze office in Israel and talk with the VP of Community and Operations, Fej Shmuelevitz, about how Waze has grown as a result of immense community engagement.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Booyah, creators of the increasingly popular mobile social “check-in” game MyTown — currently exclusive to the Apple iPhone — have added another campaign partner, this time the Travel Channel for their Food Wars TV show. Food Wars travels to different cities and has two establishments battle it out over who serves a best particular dish, [...]

The USPTO just granted Apple a patent for iGroups, a mobile social networking application that could have immense value in this arena, especially if the relevant features are released as part of a public API for the company’s mobile devices – namely iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Social Times takes a look at some of [...]

Social game developer Playdom has marked its entry into iPhone applications with the release of Mobsters: Big Apple. It links your mobile game to your online game, which is currently on MySpace. Already a social game, Mobsters was rather popular on the MySpace network, making the new iPhone game an extension of the online game version.

That means there’s a more seamless continuation of game play for users, whether they’re online or on their iPhone. It’s a smart move, as it carries over the social and gaming aspects of Mobsters, maintaining the sociability of the game itself.
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