The mobile address book will soon become the all-important bridge between the walled gardens of social media and IM communication. Increasingly, our friends and contacts are spread across more and more “buddy lists.” We need a single repository for all our “friends”- be they business or personal – and that’s where the mobile address book comes in.

Keep your friends in one place (your mobile) and have a one-click way to connect to whichever IM / SNS / communication platform that they are members of. Address books will soon auto-update whenever your friends’ update their profiles, making it much more valuable than a list of names and phone numbers.