Is mobile social networking finally beginning to emerge? I started anticipating MoSoSo a few years back in regard to “mobile virtual communities.”
‘The rapid rise of online social communities — gathering places such as MySpace and Facebook — has done more than bring the ‚Äòpen pal’ concept into the 21st century,’ said ABI’s vice president of research, Clint Wheelock. ‘It has created a new paradigm for personal networking. ‘
Analysts with the firm are currently predicting that mobile social communities will have attracted over 174 million users by 2011, compared to a projected 50 million this year.
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@ 03:30
I was talking to a Man in a Pub (as one does), but his company was running the backoffice systems for a number of emerging mobile social networks. What I recall most was that apparently they hate people with typepad phones or PC’s as these people can just text far faster.