A St. Louis student, from the University of Missouri at Rolla, has stepped in to an entrepreneurial role by starting his own social networking service.  Benjamin Roodman, a senior in computer engineering, has developed a service that is a combination MySpace.com and text messaging.  For example, users can log on, create a profile for themselves that is based upon their musical likes and other interests.  By using mobile technology, users can post photos in real time from concerts, parties, and other events, and write reviews of those events. This generates text messages, with lists of those events that are happening, for other users in that area. 

Currently there are several hundred users in his local area, but he hopes to be nationwide by March 2007. Although the bloggers at Mashable are usually quite skeptical of mobile social networks, they think ImThere is actually pretty impressive and "can see how they would attract a decent number of users." 

According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Roodman believes 2007 to be the year of mobile technology, and he would like to be on the forefront.  It sounds to me like he is definitely there!