Mobile Choice Blog

Kylie Minogue launches her own social network

Feeling lucky, lucky, lucky? Well, you should join Kylie's new social network then. It's called KylieKonnect, and it's been created for the star by a company called New Visions Mobile. As you might guess from their name, mobile is an important element in the site.

Fans will be able to register, then create a profile and blog or upload photos from their mobile phones. We assume they have to be Kylie-related, so get set for a splurge of hotpants shots. Maybe. Kylie herself will maintain a profile on the site, which will be regularly updated with news.

Check it out via the link below, although we wonder if people have time to set up a profile on a new social network, no matter how big a fan they are of La Minogue.

KylieKonnect website

Facebook sued for sending saucy texts

Well, we assume they were saucy, anyway. An Indiana woman is sueing the social network for sending her unsolicited texts containing "explicit language and unsettling remarks", after her mobile operator gave her a 'recycled' mobile number, which had previously belonged to someone who'd signed up for Facebook alerts.

Even worse, she says she was charged 10 cents per message she received, and couldn't block them without blocking text messages that she DID want to receive. It'll be an interesting court case: and certainly shows one of the pitfalls of the US operators' policy of recycling numbers fairly quickly. Earlier this year, someone was given Paris Hilton's old number, and was promptly deluged with calls and texts from not-so-well wishers.

Anyway, we want to know what the unsettling and explicit remarks were. Don't pretend you don't too.

(via MocoNews)

Orange offers Bebo Mobile for £3 a month

Have you got a Bebo profile? If not, your children probably have: the social network is extremely popular with younger internet users here in the UK. Earlier this year, Bebo announced plans to go mobile in partnership with Orange, and that partnership has just been extended with a new subscription deal.

For £3 a month, Orange customers can sign up to Bebo Extra, which gives them unlimited access to Bebo's mobile internet site without paying any data charges. They'll be able to send comments via SMS, receive notifications back in return, and also send Bebo Mails by text.

It sounds like a good deal, although we wonder if this sort of thing will be free in the not-too-distant future, once users are on unlimited data contracts, and the social networks have advertising on their mobile sites. MySpace is working with Vodafone and O2, while Facebook has an operator-neutral WAP site, so mobile social networking is clearly on the up.

Bebo website