games online for mobile? sounds nice but expensive... i dunno much of the technical requirements but you might find difficulty since signals are relatively not stable...

The idea is cool enough, but the poblem is if you have a wacko on your line: you don't want to change number everytime.
Tommy

tommy: good point. much like credit card companies generate a one-time use credit card number for its clients, upon mutual agreement users can send sms msgs through our service.

for example

citydweller alias msg

you can always change your alias when you meet a wacko. ;)

saigon: when i used the word "game"...i didn't mean "video games"...rather it's a simple game of communication via pictures/sms.

I think it's a good idea. Online dating has proven fairly popular and lucrative on the web, and moving it to mobile opens new markets. I think Tommy's point about privacy would be critical. I also think a feedback system would be important to catch and evict people who misrepresent themselves. I've never used dating sites, but my impression is that the popular ones go far beyond a hot-or-not model because too many people misrepresent themselves in pictures but are less likely to lie on personality profiles.

(round two) thansk for the correction.... yes agrees with Vanhees..i hate stalker (even women do stalk too)! ;-)

To many social problems with privacy.

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How does it make money?
Are people really want to pay for this? Or do they prefer to keep playing their offline games wich they have on their cellphone? (I think so.)

People have no problem paying for SMS messaging so if this is used as the medium for the game it is easily monetized. There would need to be a server component as well keeping track of the players and their locations etc. It does sound potentially dangerous but then, so is meeting people randomly by any other method.

It might work but I can't get excited about this idea. I have two immediate negative thoughts about it:

1. isn't there a big shortage of women in the dating network world?
2. stalkers and security and privacy issues

I also regret that people can't just meet each other in person, but that is a different issue.

And it's too bad that the decision whether to meet would be based upon the person's picture. Beauty is only skin deep.

Still, trying to look at it as a commercial venture, I guess if you can solve items 1 and 2 above it would probably work.

Sorry to be so down on this idea but it does not grab me; I see too much risk to personal safety.

Sounds a lot like http://www.meetmoi.com get a url and sign up as a partner. Founded by the guy who started sixdegrees.com one of the first social networking sites.

Part of the idea, is of course to do this in China and I don't know how wat google is in chinese, so I don't know how to find out if it already exists.
there might be a big market.
Tommy

As stated before, the biggest drawback would be misrepresentation. I have been on dating sites where the people were using others photos. Lying about all things about themselves. I would much prefer the old style stuff- face to face.
Sounds feasable (sp?) though.