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07-25-2007, 03:06 PM
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/BBLGakagTenasf/Nokia-Asks-Twango-to-Dance.xhtml
This part was really interesting!
Growth Ramping Fast
"Mobile social networking is a very strategic field for a few reasons," Karsten Weide, IDC's (http://www.idc.com/) program director of digital media and entertainment, told TechNewsWorld.
"First, we believe that mobile social networking will take off in a big way because you can communicate anywhere and you don't have to be at your desk or machine to do it," he explained. "Second, you can take high-resolution pictures and videos on the fly wherever you are, which adds an immediacy to social networking; and third, you can have GPS http://www.ecommercetimes.com/images/new/icon-inline-search.gif (http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/search.pl?query=GPS&scope=network) for location-based services, which is the notion of pinpointing people and putting them in relation to each other and to landmarks, so it can add utility to social networking.
"All all of these factors mean that social networking can be greatly enriched by being mobile," he noted.
In terms of growth projections, by 2010, IDC expects the use of mobile Internet access to triple, which will help spur big leaps in mobile social networking.
This part was really interesting!
Growth Ramping Fast
"Mobile social networking is a very strategic field for a few reasons," Karsten Weide, IDC's (http://www.idc.com/) program director of digital media and entertainment, told TechNewsWorld.
"First, we believe that mobile social networking will take off in a big way because you can communicate anywhere and you don't have to be at your desk or machine to do it," he explained. "Second, you can take high-resolution pictures and videos on the fly wherever you are, which adds an immediacy to social networking; and third, you can have GPS http://www.ecommercetimes.com/images/new/icon-inline-search.gif (http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/search.pl?query=GPS&scope=network) for location-based services, which is the notion of pinpointing people and putting them in relation to each other and to landmarks, so it can add utility to social networking.
"All all of these factors mean that social networking can be greatly enriched by being mobile," he noted.
In terms of growth projections, by 2010, IDC expects the use of mobile Internet access to triple, which will help spur big leaps in mobile social networking.