Cellphedia, an SMS application using ideas from Wikipedia and dodgeball, has already been mentioned twice here in may (check here and there).

But now, in “Cellphedia Melds Facts with Mobile Smart Mobs” from E-Commerce Times, Howard Rheingold said that Cellphedia was another example of the convergence between technologies such as cell phone, computers and Internet.

“The phone gives you instant communication wherever you are,” he explained. “And the Internet enables you to connect with people who share an interest. Combining that gives you the ability to create something like Wikipedia with a social network.”

“It remains a question about whether she’s going to get a sufficient critical mass,” he noted. “Wikipedia works because there’s a sufficient number of people working on it.”

Finally, read this post to look at examples of questions and answers stored on the Cellphedia central server.