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SLAM - Myspace for Windows based mobile devices

Microsoft has mostly played catch-up with the likes of Google for quite a while. Even the much-hyped Vista is just that - hype.

However, SLAM, a mobile based social networking application from Microsoft Research looks promising. SLAM provides a lightweight, group-centric real-time communication, photo-sharing and location awareness functionalities on mobile devices.

Slam works via html rather than SMS. Users need to install the Slam application on their Windows Mobile based devices only. A shame, actually.

Basically SLAM is Myspace for Windows based mobile devices. One feature SLAM will soon sport is location information of people in users' Slam group.

Although SLAM is one Microsoft innovation I like, I am sure someone will copy the SLAM featue set on java and open source platform soon).

posted by Pramit Singh @ 11:16 AM