mixd, from Yahoo!, purports to make it "easy to create mobile text groups and to share your mobile pix and videos with your friends."

Yay, someone delivering that use case I was moaning about back in May...

It had to happen: "FakeYourSpace is an exciting new service that enables normal everyday people like me and you to have Hot friends on popular social networking sites such as MySpace and FaceBook. Not only will you be able to see these Gorgeous friends on your friends list, but FakeYourSpace enables you to create customized messages and comments for our Models to leave you on your comment wall. FakeYourSpace makes it easy for any regular person to make it seem like they have a Model for a friend."

Cell phone as artistic platform (via Textually): "Up until now most people are used to take pictures with their mobile camera and use that as wallpaper. Thanks to FlashLite - an application that does all sorts of animated magic and is now so common on Japanese gadgets - artists take over this tiny screen and create their version of an animated wallpaper, screensaver or calendar. Or they even create designs for the menu trying to find new ways of customizing the mobile user interface."

They can indeed, and I hope they do. But our experience, sitting in the middle of a hub for Flash development and trying to provoke some excitement around this, is that there's limited enthusiasm for mobile Flash amongst the wider Flash community.

Vodafone's Social Connections: "Wireless-phone giant Vodafone (VOD) will let customers use their mobile phones to gain access to online social networking services, BusinessWeek.com has learned"

About time too. Vodafone have for a long time made it difficult for social networking services to connect with their customers, thanks in part to concerns about access to adult content and the need for moderation.

Changing Mobile Gaming Habits: "Mobile phone games are played on the move (61%) almost as much as they are played at home (62%). Also, mobile phone gamers are making the most of their idle time with 56% preferring to play while waiting."