Bulk cellphone calls

Two bits of mobile social-networking news: one a service already available, the other coming to a phone near you. You've heard of bulk emails to all your friends and your kids' bulletins on MySpace – well, now there are bulk cellphone calls to all your friends at, for example, Foonz.com. People set up a free account at Foonz.com, create your contact list on the site, and use your access number to get prompted through making a group call to everyone on your contact list. Here's coverage at the Sudbury (Mass.) Town Crier. As for finding mobilely social friends, an up and coming development is the social phonebook, not only providing phone numbers but physically locating and showing where friends are at any given moment. Helsinki-based Jaiku "takes the user's contacts and adds presence, location, and availability information to the normal static listings," according to the Mobile Tech News at Brighthand.com. Super convenience, but think about all that information (about, say, a teenager) somehow getting into the wrong hands. Food for parental thought.