As you have already noticed we hold great respect for the social music player Tunewiki.
As long as a music player Tunewiki works like a charm, one click and you can watch the song video clip, and the revolutionary auto lyrics display.
But the social features where less intimate and except for the “top played songs by country”, the social information was not much of use, until today.

Tunewiki was fully launched on the OVI store and fully completed a race to a “cross platform” app (except WinMo and WebOS, yes that’s a hint).
The new version of Tunewiki includes a Twitter like feature that allows users to share their musical taste with others by displaying the playlist of songs they have played.
Secondly Tunewiki have worked with Flyscreen (a company that lets users place widgets on top of the homepage screen) for a Tunewiki widget.
We think that Tunewiki social essence is just starting to really pay off for the users, and the social info is now more useful, although we think that there is still a place for innovation.
For the new “cross platform” we wish that more OS’s will be added as the time passes by and more users can tune-in.

watch the new feature attach:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rt3y762Q1k[/youtube]

Mobiles To Replace Digital Cameras

It was back then in 2002 when the first mobile phones with cameras gradually became a “must have” feature.
In those days those mobile phones began a new era, the era of the MMS.
soon after the mobile phone equipped with a camera transformed the digital photography for ever. Since then, the MMS did not succeed in most markets, mobile services professionals learned about the spontaneous behavior of mobile photography users (as they shoot for fun pictures that are usually are not meant to be printed), and that the mobile phone with their physical attributes cannot replace digital cameras in terms of quality even in cases where they are equipped with good optics from Leica or Carl Zeiss.
2009 now draws as the year that mobile phones aim (again) to officially replace digital cameras (Not all of them, of course).

The  new Samsung i8910 or the Omnia HD equipped with: 8 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash, geo-tagging, Face detection, Smile Shot, Blink  Shot, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) and HD video recording at 24 fps is one of these devices that aims to do so.

But Samsung is not the only one, there are  the Nokia N86 , Sony Ericsson W995 and the soon to come Sony Ericsson Idou with 12 megapixel camera.
Moreover the mobile phone will flourish where the digital camera failed at Geo-Tagging and in connected enviorinment and photos based contextual awareness.

True iPhone Killers

From June 29, 2007 when the first iPhone went on sale until those days the iPhone did not  have the honor to  fight against an appropriate rival.
The amazing multi-touch screen, the full web browsing experience, the slick and intuitive UI and the apps ecosystem all those did not get a comprehensive answer from the manufacturers.
But now it seems that the manufacturers succeeded in fully understanding the success of the iPhone and to create true competitors to the iPhone.
The Nokia N79, Samsung Omnia HD, HTC Diamond2 and the Palm Pre that will probably hit the market on march this year.

Mobile OS War

Now after the missing piece of the puzzle is revealed, and the WinMo 6.5 was ofically announced, the mobile OS war have began.
Microsoft, Nokia and Google are fighting to power more and more devices, and Apple, RIM, and Palm that are trying to create the best OS using thier own devices.
All of them aim at the devlopers, they all offer them a great way to sell their apps and to create apps ecosystem just like apple did.
The day we will choose our mobile device by OS is not far, HTC and other manufacturers are all playing the game.
A game that will do good  to devlopers and to consumers as well.

Social networks have been the greatest phenomenon in the last two years.
Well known Facebook have recently celebrated its 5th birthday with more than 150 million users.
The success soon invaded  the mobile web and for example 15 million users entered their account on Facebook via a mobile device.
In addition, the most popular sites on mobile are social networks , they are even more popular than that on PC internet.
Like it or not the phenomenon has come to the mobile, big time.
Recent developments and the launch of Google Latitude will soon determine if the mobile device will become the “Facebook Phone” too.

As ReadWriteWeb mentioned location based social networks are already available on an increasing number of carriers, but all of the services have yet to hit the mainstream.
The lack of GPS-enabled devices and application awareness contributed to the situation.
Moreover, the mobile social network do not have a web presence, unlike Facebook that grew from the web to  mobile, Loopt and brightkite that have started their way on the mobile.

The evolution of social networks will definitely take place in the mobile world.
That is why  Google Latitude is a true innovation. the Geo Information comes as an additional information for an existed social network, in this case Google “Social Networks” (Google users).
The data will help you locate friends that are already a part of a relationship that is based on email contacts, close friends, etc.
While chatting with a colleague, the information can save him an SMS because he will know already where you are.
The mobile device is used as a tool to enhance the connections and communication ways, connections that are taking place on the web.

Another advantage is that Google can bring  Latitude to the masses by itself or with the help of developers.
The service will automatically be installed on all HTC G1 devices, and will hit all Android based devices from day one.

The launch of Google Latitude was just the opening shot, more and more mobile devices equipped with GPS receivers are soon to come,  and giants like Nokia are already working (and working) on its “Latitude”.
Then the main fight will start, will it be the major web social networks like Facebook that will take control over our mobile devices or will it be Nokia or Google.
Nokia’s intentions for it’s social network is still unclear , but it cannot ignore the momentum of web social networks like facebook, My space etc .
One way or another it seems the “Facebook phone” will be available sooner than we thought.

The web 2.0 was referring to the social and content rich web.
Mobile 2.0 is a common term that is used to describe many things.
It was first referring to the contextual aware network with M2M (Machine-to-Machine) direct communication.
Now it is mostly use to describe the mobile interface of the Web 2.0.
The mobile is usually used as an access channel to the web-based applications and services (there are some pure mobile services but they are too significant).
The Mobile device is a multimedia creation and consumption device for several years now.
It is only logical that the mobile device will take a part in the content creation for the Web 2.0 / Mobile 2.0 services.
Many services (like flickr) provided the means to upload to the web content from your device.
It was usually done with pictures and content that only requires a low bandwidth.
Others like many facebook applications, used a mailing mechanism with MMS (Multimedia Messaging Services) but MMS only supports files up to 300Kb so no good video of over 10 seconds can be sent and it is not immediate (just like in mail).
All solutions lacked immediacy (like you can create an immediate content with your webcam).
Qik and Flixwagon are two competitors who are battling for the title (And no, I did not forget Kyte).
Until today the battle was more or less around “who supports more devices” nevertheless, Flixwagon’s recent announcement on its partnership with Nokia may change the rules.
Nokia, with its services portal (OVI) intends to create one place where all Nokia users could upload all of their content.
With the help of Flixwagon, Nokia hopes to create the “mobile youtube” but only for Nokia users.
Qik from the other hand is still focusing on bringing the service to any device, smartphones and low-end devices as well according its latest announcement.
The new Nokia 5800 is coming with a download catalog where Qik application can be found that’s not much but it indeed is a good sign for Qik.
Both Qik and Flixwagon have yet a long way to go, until live broadcasting will turn from a niche product and go to the mainstream.