Comments on: Mobile social networks, don’t go it alone

By: Tech guy

Tech guy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:37:44 +0000

Mobile user don't find it interesting to use social networking sites and me 2 instead of talking to friends and other ppls.

By: Friend

Friend — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:12:24 +0000

I'm interested in seeing what happens with friend.io which is a new mobile social network for the iPhone that was just launched about a week ago. I'm thinking they can compete with their geo location / GPS cell phone tracking to show where friends are.

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:14:59 +0000

Privacy is still a major issue of location based platforms. MagnetU who provides an amazing mobile social networking accessory that match and make new connections with people around you overcome the privacy challanges and make mobile social networking in a really enjoyable way. No need to install any application on your phone. I just bought it in Taiwan and actually it works with all operators in the world and does not require the high data plan cost.

By: ziv

ziv — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:44:00 +0000

People are carrying their cell phones any place, any time, most of them are social network members, do they can recognize each other? not really!
with NearConn – cellular social network it possible. the system Search your close environment and You will get relevant information about facebook members / other people that are in your close environment.
But lets talk about more value that people can get from carrying they cell phone – to every one we say: “CellYourSelf”.
NearConn is the best way to “CellYourSelf “, so your phone can represent you (will act as your poster), you can Turn your profile to a personal billboard to promote your self in a personal / business matter.
http://www.NearConn.com

By: Jaun

Jaun — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:16 +0000

mozes.com isn’t a website for snomping on. it looks good though.

By: neilm

neilm — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:37:41 +0000

I use mozes.com and it’s quite reasonable, only the standard text rates. I use it for my networking. It’s really neat!..I get all my music updates from there. I think they’re branching out to mobile marketing too. They are quite innovative. Maybe you could try that too.

By: durrani

durrani — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:01:03 +0000

its free when advertising is not involved. a well established service dosnt need to spam. you have to have a very well known name to be able to charge for a service on the net and be big. peekamo.com is the only proper mobile social network out there, and theres going to be more.

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:56:59 +0000

Some interesting comments,

"Free" is not always the only business model. People are happy to pay for things they want and pay a premium for things that are easy to use, convenient and don't subject them to spamvertising!

In the world of mobile content little/nothing is free it is particulary important for social networks to look to deliver value which (take it from me!)is a little more challenging with a 2in screen...

Som

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:40:39 +0000

support peekamo. its a valid and trusting mobile network that offers free text messaging. i dont undeerstand why people are so hesitant to such a service. i know mmost thuings in life are hard to believe when you tag the word frewe with the business, but try it out and see instead of being so ignorant.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:04:02 +0000

Andrew you were on the money. I never saw it that way when I read the article, but upon reading your comment and a second read at the article your points are absolutely correct.

Well this article was a waste of time, but a good lesson learned nonetheless.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:24:48 +0000

I think we are all in agreement that the mobile phone is the next big step for social networking. However what I can't agree on is this article bizarre notion that it takes big money to be successful in the social networking arena.

If we consider Myspace to be the Microsoft of social networking it would make the smaller social networks somewhat of an Apple or Linux. The market is big enough for everyone and each social network comes with it's own 31 flavors. Just have a look at the wikipedia list of 200+ social networks.

Capitalizing an article based on Myspace constant growth and denouncing other social networks' ability to grow and be successful would be like saying "Apple doesn't have a chance at success in a Windows dominated world." Hello, has anyone heard of this thing called an iPod? Great little gadget that nobody expected, from a company who holds about a 5% share in the computing industry. And Linux, the little operating system nobody knows how to use but finds its way into almost all major financial institution as the founding layer for all of our daily financial transactions.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses, and someone of us still haven't learned our lesson from the .com days of thinking and researching before speaking and acting.

Just something to think about before you all go ot and start buying MySpace "stock" because GigaOM said it would be leader in mobile social networking.

GigaOM, this is truly disappointing coming from a blog who's sole purpose is to introduce, help and support internet business, small or large, not just the big boys, I get enough of that on TV and the newspaper. Let's keep it real.

Serenity now.

By: vince

vince — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:46:18 +0000

hi all,
nice that everybody speaks about mobile communities:

we (http://wap.itsmy.com) are live and the no.1 in usa by mobile homepages, due to the fact that applications definitely a good thing, but just i know arround 80 companies prod. appli`s, and we have learned that users like 100% easy services, into the mobile web.

and by the end, nothing is live, just move to the mobile web and have a look, ìt`s realy not entertainment what happens!

best Vince

By: Ekalavya

Ekalavya — Wed, 09 May 2007 06:19:31 +0000

We recently did an article on ‘What is it which is going to drive GPRS usage in India?’ – and it’s undoubtedly going to be a social networking site like Orkut.

Even a graphic imaginary slide of how the Orkut WAP would look like:
http://www.watblog.com/?content=detail&id=697

By: mobilefreak

mobilefreak — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:31:25 +0000

i Agree to that but i would also like to add that social networks related tomobile are not the only side of coin there are lot more companies coming in other fields of mobile like content resellers i.e http://www.youpark.com

Then you can see lot of whitlabels being provideby these content reselers these social networking communities like Mobihand

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:54:49 +0000

Have to agree with Yaromir here. Relative to a startup, I'm pretty sure that Myspace wouldn't find building a mobile application very "cost-prohibitive".

By: yaromir

yaromir — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:06:32 +0000

Could Mr.Conahan elaborate more about the “cost-prohibitive aspect” of existing social networking sites building their own mobile applications? Is it a proved fact or just an aspiration to sell your own solution instead?