Cellphones to become the next big social platform
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Forrester Research describe the move of MySpace.com and Facebook.com social networks from the Internet to mobile phones like this: A single technology couldn’t start a trend by itself. But a bunch of teenies could spark one. That was a couple of months ago.
The social Web is moving towards cellphones. Among the signals, there’s Helio which now providing MySpace to its customers, and Yahoo for Mobile landing on Hutchinson 3G mobile. Our regular readers already know that we totally agree with this analysis. Technology Review (thanks Jason for the tip) insisted on this trend:
“There are two trends happening here: on the one hand, we have this explosion of user-generated content, and on the other hand we have the mobile operators deploying and diffusing a payment infrastructure,” explained Mark Donovan, senior analyst at M:Metrics, a Seattle firm that monitors mobile commerce.
“The areas where we have seen the largest growth [in mobile-phone usage] center around creating, connecting, and sharing ― people taking pictures, capturing video, sending those files to the Web, and chatting through instant-messaging,” he says. “Mobile subscribers shouldn’t merely be treated as passive consumers.”
But there still is a lot of consideration before social networking getting beyond the Internet. One of the biggest difficulty is the lack of standards. Although a handful of mobile carriers and vendors are working on a Linux open-source operating system, it would take at least a year before seeing a multi-platform operating system that could ease and lower the costly developments of a new applications for mobile.
Time will tell. But once a bunch of kids will do blogging and video gaming on the same website using different mobile phone, that’s it, you’ll be in Mobile 2.0.
Jul 3, 2006 | By Nuno
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