Comments on: Will the rise of mobile social networking be the catalyst to drive location based services? http://londoncalling.mobi/2008/03/will-the-rise-of-mobile-social-networking-be-the-catalyst-to-drive-location-based-services/ about all things social & mobile Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sachendra Yadav http://londoncalling.mobi/2008/03/will-the-rise-of-mobile-social-networking-be-the-catalyst-to-drive-location-based-services/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Sachendra Yadav Tue, 27 May 2008 10:34:42 +0000 http://www.andrewgrill.com/blog/?p=31#comment-59 Mobile social networking is on the rise, but it's a long way from reaching its full potential. I have gone through a couple of mobile social networks out there and they are nowhere near my expectations. So I decided to list down a few scenarios. http://sachendra.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/what-i-want-from-my-mobile-social-network/ Mobile social networking is on the rise, but it’s a long way from reaching its full potential. I have gone through a couple of mobile social networks out there and they are nowhere near my expectations. So I decided to list down a few scenarios.
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]]> By: Andrew J Scott http://londoncalling.mobi/2008/03/will-the-rise-of-mobile-social-networking-be-the-catalyst-to-drive-location-based-services/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Andrew J Scott Sat, 10 May 2008 22:13:37 +0000 http://www.andrewgrill.com/blog/?p=31#comment-26 The "m." will win because mobile related services must also offer service online in the regular web world. Who wants to use a tiny screen when they can use their 24" monitor? On this basis alone, m.rummble.com is a logical extension for www.rummble.com . Dot mobi has always been a bone of contention and will end up being another annoying extension that one feels one should buy to protect ones brand; but it will never become the defacto standard because m. already is . As for LBS services, I believe GPS will be the next ubiquitous functionality addition in the same way the camera in the phone was the last few years. Operators, as always, are behind the curve both with provision of capacity (see LBS triangulation comments in Andrews post) and their charging model for it. Other services will take their place and once they are seamless enough for users will accelerate the take up mobile services ... once the operators bundle flat rate data of course; which is the prerequisite for the mobile internet being used by the mass market (another example where the operators are holding up the entire mobile ecosystem). The “m.” will win because mobile related services must also offer service online in the regular web world. Who wants to use a tiny screen when they can use their 24″ monitor?

On this basis alone, m.rummble.com is a logical extension for http://www.rummble.com . Dot mobi has always been a bone of contention and will end up being another annoying extension that one feels one should buy to protect ones brand; but it will never become the defacto standard because m. already is .

As for LBS services, I believe GPS will be the next ubiquitous functionality addition in the same way the camera in the phone was the last few years. Operators, as always, are behind the curve both with provision of capacity (see LBS triangulation comments in Andrews post) and their charging model for it. Other services will take their place and once they are seamless enough for users will accelerate the take up mobile services … once the operators bundle flat rate data of course; which is the prerequisite for the mobile internet being used by the mass market (another example where the operators are holding up the entire mobile ecosystem).

]]> By: Alex Kerr http://londoncalling.mobi/2008/03/will-the-rise-of-mobile-social-networking-be-the-catalyst-to-drive-location-based-services/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Alex Kerr Sat, 10 May 2008 22:12:56 +0000 http://www.andrewgrill.com/blog/?p=31#comment-25 Question: Why force the poor user into another 2 keypresses ("m.") or another 10 keypresses + pause (".mobi") when lazy developers could in fact just use "domain.com" without any extension for ALL versons and serve according to the device connecting? No excuse! Are there not enough barriers to mobile web adoption already? Secondly, your point about LBS platform throughput is another great example of the dinosaur networks dropping the ball and hence why Google and Nokia for example are building their own database of Cell-ID locations which are already being used in their services, with none of this nonsense about getting the user's permission on their location - it just works. It will take the web world to show the mobile world the way to the future. Alex Kerr CEO phonething.com Question: Why force the poor user into another 2 keypresses (“m.”) or another 10 keypresses + pause (“.mobi”) when lazy developers could in fact just use “domain.com” without any extension for ALL versons and serve according to the device connecting? No excuse! Are there not enough barriers to mobile web adoption already?

Secondly, your point about LBS platform throughput is another great example of the dinosaur networks dropping the ball and hence why Google and Nokia for example are building their own database of Cell-ID locations which are already being used in their services, with none of this nonsense about getting the user’s permission on their location – it just works. It will take the web world to show the mobile world the way to the future.

Alex Kerr
CEO
phonething.com

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