I often get asked from people what is coming up next with regard to the mobile space... Well everything from m-commerce that we know will be a strong win for business in 2009 - and we will see a dramatic rise in applications and mobile stores next year, through to games applications and social gadgets...
Below I have compiled a small list of companies that are breaking through from their final round of start-up funding into full on applications with a solid enough business case to take them through to their next level of a Beta launched product.
You will find everything from LIVE You Tube style applications direct from your phone through to social mash ups
Take a look... have a play and see what you may have been missing out on!!
Qik.com - is an easy to use streaming portal that lets users broadcast directly from their cell phones. The service has seen its expansion quite rapidly and is being utilized from the common users to people sending images and recordings of sessions from the World Economic Form.
skydata.com - Access to all your business and contact data right on fingertips. The app does not simply provides fingertip access to all your contact data, it automatically syncs it with your phones contact list.What this means is that as soon as you find a business contact from LinkedIn you could just hit the call button to get on phone. Connect your LinkedIn, Facebook, Outlook, Google and Yahoo! Contacts / Access CRM data from Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, Microsoft, Siebel or NetSuite / Retrieve important news, business profiles, status and location of any contact / View data one "Quick Click" from calls, emails, text and calendar events / Deploy your information in minutes, safely and securely
JumpTap is a web-based mobile search portal that allows Advertisers, Publishers and Operators to intermingle with each other at the right time with a right strategy. It allows subscribers to find desired material while content publishers and operators can retain control of their mobile traffic. Advertisers finds great scope in the service as it allows them to target the right ad to the right user at the right time.
mpowerplayer.com - App allows consumers to play games for their mobile phones through an emulator. Big game makers like EA Mobile and Sega Mobile use the firm's technology to demo their games, which customers can then buy and download to their phones. Mpowerplayer says they'll use the funds to expand the service to other social networks. Right now they're only on Facebook.
belysio.com - Social mapping service that is going to revolutionize the mobile usage in terms of staying in touch with your buddies. The startup is using location based technologies, the one which notifies you when your contact is near. The service lets you send text to those friends and automatically updates the address book.
Shozu lets you connect and publish media to your favourite social networks – in one convenient place. The one stop mobile social network is a mobile download with official support for: Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Twitter and lots more. This is allows you to manage your social networks easily from your mobile.
Tatango aims to revolutionize group text messaging, thereby allowing any group the ability to send and receive group text messages from the web or their own mobile phones for free. In a nutshell they want to create yahoo groups for SMS messaging.
vuclip.com - New features added to what was blueapple are additional feature of searching for searching for any video using the website and sending it to your phone using sms. There’s no wait needed for any encoding of the videos as vuclip’s unique technology analyses your mobile phone and the connection speed as well the screen size and adjusts the video for optimal playback, and it does all this on the fly
