A few days ago I read about a new system of making contacts with friends and places with mobile technology.

SociaLight allows friends to join up as groups so that it’s possible to find each other in a local area. The reasoning is that, in a town or city, you are probably never all that far from one of your friends – you just don’t know where they are. SociaLight tells you if one of your group is nearby, so that you can meet up in reality (not just text or phone call).

SociaLight also lets people leave ‘sticky notes’ about local places so that when someone else in the group passes by they get the note.

There will be two types of non-verbal interaction initiated by the mobile phone – tap and tickle. This works by sending different pulses of vibration to a mobile handset – for those times when a touch expresses more than words would.

All sounds very interesting. Looking forward to hearing more about this.