Here’s 7 of the best/scariest mobile social networking applications currently in development for the Android platform.

NavXS

[singlepic=23,128,240,,right]Navigation Exchange Service (NavXC) enables you to build a network of online contacts who’s positions are continuously tracked and exchanged between each client. This allows the user to track the movements and whereabouts of their contacts at all times – in real time and in relation to their own movements.

Other options include the ability to define ‘Locations’ and share them with other users on your contacts list. These shared locations can be used for example to ‘Map Bookmark’ a new bar you’ve just found enabling you to both share this new discovery with others and also to keep a note of its location for the future.

http://www.navxs.com/

Commandro

[singlepic=24,128,240,,right]Commandro is a geo-centered social networking application which allows you to keep a track on the wherabouts of your friends. Commandro has many built-in features that give you the options to set alerts for specific friends and activities, for example you could setup an alert to notify you when your friend Jane appears within a specific radius of a designated location.

Commandro will even continue to run in the background when the ser interface is not running, this enables the application to still gather and report the necessary data. Once the UI is re-started this data will automatically be updated into the system

Other features include, instant messaging, an invite system and a favourite places bookmarking option.

http://commandro.net/

Pocket Journey

[singlepic=29,128,240,,right]Pocket Journey is like have your own virtual tour guide, the mobile application connects your current location to a global community of voices from people who have visited that specific location before you.

This allows you to call on a wealth of knowledge from these users and quickly know everything about anywhere.

Pocket Journey is aimed at any age group of people wanting to explore and learn in detail more about their tourist locations or simply find out more about their own local areas from real people who’ve visited.

http://www.pocketjourney.com/

ZInfo

ZInfo is an application that enables you to share information and location based events with other users in your contacts.

This allows you to stay up-to-date with your contacts, know their locations, their routes, and enable you to find out and keep track of the web 2.0 services they’re using. ZInfo also provides quick image sharing between groups and users.

Here’s a video of ZInfo in action (a higher quality demo can be found on their website)

http://infosword.com/zinfo/

ShoutEm

[singlepic=27,128,240,,right]Shout’Em is an application on which users can quickly and easily create their own mobile social networking service.

The Shout’Em platform can be used by anbody, whether you’re a large corporating looking to provide a new service for your existing user base or a single person wanting to build up your own community for friend

The idea behind Shout’Em is to allow users the ability to build their own social networks without the need to worry about technical details, scalabilty etc. Shout’Em provides the tools and services to get you started without any of the headaches

http://www.shoutem.com/

Snap!

[singlepic=28,128,240,,right]Social Networking on Android Phones or Snap! s it’s known makes it easy for you to find and meet other Snap! users with shared common interests along with staying in touch with friends and colleagues.

Snap! gives you the ability to tie your cellphone number to a specific social networking site. This allows you to receive instant notifications from these groups to let you know when members are in your physical proximity. Here’s some examples of when Snaps! meet new people function could be useful:

* Exchanging phone numbers with business partners.
* Locating people from your hometown at a festival.
* Searching for potential dates in a bar.

http://www.snap-project.net/HomePage

KudoStar

[singlepic=10,128,240,,right]KudoStar is a social rating system for Android, allowing you to connect your contacts and favourite locations. The points system places positive and negative KudoStars on these places and contacts which can then be shared amoungst other Android devices and also between other social networking websites.

KudoStar also uses Google’s open social platforms aswell as Facebook’s F8 to virally spread this collected data with other users.

http://www.kudostar.com/

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