Is Mixer The Mobile Social Location-Based App We?ve Been Looking For? Maybe?

In the last few months we've seen the rise of location-based mobile networking the likes of which some people envisioned a while ago but few executed on. And the executions are patchy but often interesting. Banjo aggregates geo-tagged information from other services like 4sq, Twitter etc. Sonar uses your 4sq checkin and looks at social ties on other platforms. Circle alerts you when friends are nearby. Trover lets you share photos of cool discoveries. Highlight allows users to broadcast their profile wherever they go. Then there are professional event networking apps like Mingle, Bizaboo and Schmooze. So far we've seen apps which let you converse around a location randomly with stranger, like flirting app Badoo. Sometimes that hasn't ended well. What's required is something which is vague about location ("close by" is good enough), has real people and provides open conversations to prevent abuse. Something like a location-based bulletin board. Mixer, on iOS, might just be that app [download it here].

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