Mobile Social Networks Are the Future
Posted by Nick O'Neill on February 14th, 2008 12:06 PMIf you think about it, one of the greatest successes of Twitter has been the ability to easily communicate while on the go. You can view what your friends are talking about and participate in live conversation all from the comfort of your mobile phone. For those with little time, sites like Facebook and MySpace can be too time consuming to become involved on a regular basis. That’s why social networks are going to rapidly become more mobile.
Browse through Facebook and you’ll rapidly begin to notice that it resembles a phone book in the way that you can search through your “friends” and view all of their contact information. In a session at the GSMA Mobile World Conference, RIM’s co-CEO stated that social networking is the future of the company. He stated that social networking will soon become as pervasive within enterprises as instant messaging already is.
Mobile companies will need to either become “pipes or platforms.” As I wrote earlier this morning, Zynga has already launched a platform. It appears that the concept of building platforms that any developer can build on has extended beyond social networks and has moved into social networks and will soon enter mobile. So far the best mobile social network tool that I’ve used is Facebook for Blackberry.
There is a whole new wave of services being offered for mobile and soon enough we’ll begin seeing new mobile services appear at the same pace that new “Web 2.0″ sites have been sprouting up over the past couple years. Have you used any highly engaging mobile social networks?
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1) I use the Facebook App on my Blackberry. I mostly use it to upload pictures I take with my handset. This process is both for my network of 700+ friends on facebook to see what i'm doing in near real time, as well as acts as a way for me to capture a history of my life.
2) I use twitter's IM notification function and pipe that into Google Talk on my Blackberry. This method gives me real-time twitter updates and allows me to 'chat' back to other twitterers. Gtalk on the blackberry also queues up all tweets and lets me read them in sequence later. I follow about 300 people...and read almost every tweet ever day using this methodology.
The "future" isn't mobile though. TODAY is mobile.
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@Peter - you are right to say that TODAY is mobile - but there are still a ton of people (including yours truly) that don't have phones connected to the net.
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