Everyone is creating application for iPhones and Blackberries these days, so a trio of University of Michigan students thought why not them, too?

The School of Information students (who recently graduated) ended up creating Troubadour Mobile last year. Two of the team are now heading out west for jobs with the likes of Microsoft but one of them plans to stay in Ann Arbor and make a go with the start-up. Gaurav Bhatnagar hopes to develop the technology into his full-time job this year.

Troubadour Mobile's application allows iPhone users to quickly connect with family and friends. It hopes to create three more applications by the end of the summer. A whole family of applications should be available by the end of the year. And that's not long after when the founders were trying to decide whether to focus on Blackberries or iPhones.

"We knew something big was going to happen, but we couldn’t nail it down," Bhatnagar says.

Source: Gaurav Bhatnagar, co-founder of Troubadour Mobile
Writer: Jon Zemke