I’m pleased to announce our first meeting!

The event details for the next WhereWednesday are as follows.

Topic: Social Networking and Location
Place: 340 Brannan St, Suite 104, SF 94107
Map: Y! GMaps Live Maps
Time: March 26th, 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Cost: FREE!

Presenters:

Christian Wiklund - CEO Wichro on ZKOUT

ZKOUT creates a bridge that connects your online and real world social networks. ZKOUT’s main ingredients — location-awareness and inherent mobility — promote real world interaction between friends, family, neighborhoods, businesses, even strangers with common interests. To provide you with the highest, most personal level of interaction, ZKOUT lets you share as many types of media as possible, including photos, live video feeds and text messages, and allows for commenting on other members’ posts. The ZKOUT community will be built by its members. Other social networking sites typically tie their members to computers. ZKOUT provides a unique social fabric that severs that tie.

I was browsing a few mobile social networks last night and came across this funny/cute flash animation on Plazes. The main character is Mario and it shows a good use case for mobile social networking, cheering Mario up.

A few days ago some of the R&D folks from The New York Times launched Shifd. It acts like a virtual repository of random bits of information that you need to access from any device that has web access. It even has a community aspect that’s unique, you can share links to different communities like Facebook, Digg, and Delicious :-). Notes and Places don’t have a simple sharing mechanism, so I’m going to have to give it a unhappy face for this

I would definitely improve sharing of Notes and Places and also add a browser plug-in so you can highlight text or a ULR and add it to Shifd with a quick right click of the mouse.

Give a try, you can put your todo list, shopping list, as well as addresses for quick reference from your phone.

www.shifd.com

I just heard the news about William F. Buckley Jr.passing on. I was introduced to Mr Buckley in high school political science. To be honest, at first I didn’t understand or word he said, I knew it was English, but the vocabulary and his manner of speaking was on a level I wished to achieve. He is known for Firing Line, a PBS political talk show that lasted from 1966-1999.

Here’s an example of his writing.

I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free.

* Up from Liberalism (1959)

Mr. Buckley, the political body will miss your class and high bar on debate.

I was asked to comment on my experience with a mobile virus that infected my phone in Heathrow back in 2005. Take a look at this Youtube segment from the news clip.