Post by warner123 on Feb 27, 2024 7:15:47 GMT 2
Apple, Microsoft, Google: all the hi-tech big names are looking at this market with great interest. Nokia and Tim launch their own mobile social networks. In the wake of the successes of social networks such as Facebook or MySpace , various companies are putting platforms on the market for sharing images, music, contacts, thoughts, appointments and everything that can be digitized and packaged to end up in a mobile phone. Many new social networking applications for mobile phones, therefore, also because this market, despite the current financial and economic crisis, still promises well. According to Nielsen Mobile, in fact, in Europe 30% of mobile phone users who belong to at least one social network use their mobile phone to access it anywhere. The number of social networkers on mobile phones will go from 50 million in 2006 to 174 million in 2011, according to a study by Abi Research. And in 2013 the market will reach the remarkable figure of 4.6 billion dollars, with investments aimed at consumer technologies that will probably surpMy Butt corporate ones (source: Forrester Research).
Microsoft has understood this and is calibrating its mobile Uruguay Mobile Number List strategy on entertainment and in particular on social networking. For this reason, mobile phones with a Microsoft environment have integrated applications such as Messanger or Spaces, its dedicated blogging platform. But Google doesn't stand idly by either. In its development laboratories it is trying to bring its "maps" and Google Earth into the mobile phone, that is, to conveniently view information on some places of interest uploaded by other users on the mobile phone. Mobile social networking is also booming in our country. According to the latest report from the Mobile Content Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan, in fact, the mobile communities business has grown by 15% compared to last year (7% of the overall mobile content market).
Also in the document from the Milan Polytechnic we read that "social networking sites are becoming an indispensable part of the digital lifestyle. Almost all social networking sites have added the ability to connect to communities via mobile phone, allowing you to access profiles and share content on the move." One of the reasons for the success of mobile social networking, as highlighted by Luca Predolin, Buongiorno's marketing manager, and which could further shift the attention of the "always on" generation towards this type of communities in the future, is the possibility of knowing , through GPS technologies, where the members of your social network are, at all times. According to the New York Times, this would be precisely the advantage in the hands of mobile networkers compared to web-based ones: reading in real time what their friends are doing, what emotions they are feeling and finally moving from being virtually "with them" everywhere to knowing exactly where they are.
Microsoft has understood this and is calibrating its mobile Uruguay Mobile Number List strategy on entertainment and in particular on social networking. For this reason, mobile phones with a Microsoft environment have integrated applications such as Messanger or Spaces, its dedicated blogging platform. But Google doesn't stand idly by either. In its development laboratories it is trying to bring its "maps" and Google Earth into the mobile phone, that is, to conveniently view information on some places of interest uploaded by other users on the mobile phone. Mobile social networking is also booming in our country. According to the latest report from the Mobile Content Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan, in fact, the mobile communities business has grown by 15% compared to last year (7% of the overall mobile content market).
Also in the document from the Milan Polytechnic we read that "social networking sites are becoming an indispensable part of the digital lifestyle. Almost all social networking sites have added the ability to connect to communities via mobile phone, allowing you to access profiles and share content on the move." One of the reasons for the success of mobile social networking, as highlighted by Luca Predolin, Buongiorno's marketing manager, and which could further shift the attention of the "always on" generation towards this type of communities in the future, is the possibility of knowing , through GPS technologies, where the members of your social network are, at all times. According to the New York Times, this would be precisely the advantage in the hands of mobile networkers compared to web-based ones: reading in real time what their friends are doing, what emotions they are feeling and finally moving from being virtually "with them" everywhere to knowing exactly where they are.