Foursquare is not the ball game played by four players. What I am actually refering to is the popular social networking game create by Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai, Harry Heymann, Nathan Folkman and Mike Singleton with design help from Mari Sheibley. The game is basically played by “checking-in” to different places that you go to. With the help of a GPS equipped mobile phone like the iPhone (although it works with an iPod touch the detected location is not as accurate), you can check-in to these places.

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Skype is a very popular service that provides voice communication, chat and file transfer functions over the Internet. The Skype services like voice communication is free for Skype-to-Skype calling. Skype also allows video calls on it’s desktop versions of the software. The good news is now Skype has released a native mobile app client of it’s popular service for the Symbian mobile platform which has been under beta testing the latter part of last year.

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This year, I’ve decided to spend more time using my connected phone for my online life. I’ve been taking it a step at a time. First I started using my Symbian based Nokia 5800 to post my tweets on Twitter using an excellent app called Gravity. Then, I’ve setup my mobile phone so that I can use it as a mobile 3G router that I can use to connect to the Internet from my notebook and netbook. This pass couple of weeks, I’ve been using a mobile app called Mobbler that lets me listen to my Last.fm radio stations.

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It has always been a pain trying to get a mobile phone to tether and allow your computer to use the phone’s 3G data connection as a way to connect to the Internet. Tethering via bluetooth is such a pain to setup depending on how your mobile phone likes to connect to your computer. Cables are a messy thing. You’re in luck if you have one of those Symbian mobile phones with Wifi ‘coz the JoikuSpot mobile app offers a painless one-click way to configure your Wifi-equipped Symbian mobile phone as a 3G router.

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I’ve decided to spend a lot more time online starting this year, in order to do that one of the things I’ve decided was I need a very good Twitter client on my Symbian based Nokia 5800 mobile phone. I’ve tried out several Twitter clients for my mobile phone (I’ll write another post on this because these Twitter clients do have their own merits) and I found Gravity from MobileWays to be the best fit for my needs.

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When the Nokia N900 computer phone came out, one of the features that is lacking is MMS. Today, the first MMS app for the Maemo powered Nokia N900 is now available for download. The MMS mobile app is called fMMS. The Maemo app, developed using the python programming language, allows N900 mobile phone owners to send and receive MMS using a graphical frontend.

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Online scrabble has revealed a whole new world of game possibilites embedding real world maps into the game experience. Nokia is doing it for a car racing game on mobile phones – OVI Maps Racing. I pretty excited about the what I think will become a new trend in car racing apps — unlimited tracks using real world maps.

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The Firefox Mobile team has made available Release Candidate 2 for the Maemo open mobile platform. You can download and install the new mobile Firefox version on your N900 computer phone by visiting the site http://firefox.com/m.

Firefox mobile for the N900 is currently the only mobile web browser that offers full desktop web browsing experience on a mobile device. It allows you to view even Adobe Flash content on the mobile browser.

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The popular notetaking mobile app, Evernote, gets an update for the Android. Evernote is a mobile app, that provides a free service that lets you create audio notes, text notes, image snapshots and even upload files. The service also offers a premium / paid version which allows you to upload any type of file.

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Chris over at Chili Technologies has started working on a FourSquare app that will run on the N900 mobile phone’s Maemo platform. For the uninitiated, FourSquare is a web service that lets you “check-in” your location when you visit certain places like restaurants, coffee shops, bars, homes, offices. People who checks-in the most number of times in a location gets to be tagged as the location mayor. FourSquare, together with partners, also offers incentives when visiting certain locations.

The FourSquare Maemo app called barrioSquare is in it’s early stages and uses Python and QT bindings for Maemo. Chris is looking for help in developing the mobile app. If you’re interested you can contact him here. Once the barrioSquare app is up and running, FourSquare will be one of those location-based social app that will be available on major mobile platforms.