The Phonebook is Getting Social


One of the emerging stories at this years 3GSM in Barcelona was social location. Clearly  Nokia has something going on in making the phonebook social. This effects for example Eniro / Hitta.se and other yellow page styled firms in search for a web 2.0 presence. 

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