When 3 launched its X-Series service, the buzz was all about putting the big Web 2.0 sites on your phone. Conspicuous by their absence were any deals with social networking providers however.
That's starting to change, indirectly. 3 has signed a deal with Intercasting, a social networking "gateway provider", to make it easier for the operator's subscribers to access social networking sites including LiveJournal, Xanga, Vox and BlackPlanet.
A single interface will provide access to all the sites, to make it easy for users. It's good, but it's still not MySpace, Bebo, Facebook...