Mobile devices and social networking are starting to make very interesting bedfellows that can help recruiters and sourcers, if you take a look at the latest apps.

Shally and I jumped on the mobile device bandwagon a while back:  the numbers make it inevitable (4 billion wireless devices, twice the number of PCs in operation -- as pointed out so nicely by Michael Marlatt in his webinar for Arbita ACES).

For example, look at Robo.to, which displays the caller's video greeting, mood, location, latest Twitter mesages, LinkedIn name and title, recent Flickr photos and more, when the phone rings.

This "social address book" trend should grow in 2010 as more phones feature a forward-facing camera for video calls, according to Robo.to's CEO.

This and a few other related new tools were mentioned in a recent WIRED article, as reported on FT.

• Motorola's new Cliq phone's Motoblur software merges tweets, e-mail and Facebook status messages under the phone's address book contacts.
• Similar capabilities exist on the HTC Hero, another Google Android-compatible phone.
• In July, Nokia bought Cellity and its "phonebook 2.0" product merging contact information with social networks.

These remind me of Xobni, which gives your Microsoft Outlook a tie-in with social network data, conversation history and other enhanced functionality for all your contacts, including email search that's superior to Outlook's native search in many respects.  They report a Xobni Mobile release for Blackberry is coming soon.

Last but not least, you should check out what Broadlook is doing to bring Contact Capture (and eventually its other sourcing tools) to mobile devices at Broadlook Mobile.

And if you thought all that was cool, you should see how scientists are on the way to reading your mind through your dreams: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/25/brain.scans.wired/index.html

P.S.  I'd like to send a shout-out to my colleague, Shally Steckerl, congratulating him and his wife on the birth of their second child (and first son) today!