MySpace and YouTube on your mobile? Pretty cool. This headline from Reuters definitely caught my eye today:
Oz to Bring Social Networking to Mobile Phones
Privately-held Oz Communications, a maker of wireless messaging technologies, will announce on Wednesday a new product allowing people to access social network sites over their cellphones...
..."Clearly the user experience will not be the same as on a desktop (computer)," Mogensen said in an interview. "But the mobile phone has other attributes that are so appealing we think it will fly."
The growing use of cellphones embedded with digital cameras will encourage its use as a device to share photos and video on the spot, he said...
A social networking service would appear to users as an icon on a cellphone menu. Selecting the icon would bring the customer to a list of the most popular networking sites among hundreds of nascent Internet communities.
"If a new community arrives and becomes a major hit, our solution allows mobile operators to introduce that new community," Mogensen said.
Guess I'd better add Web service to my mobile at long last. Not only does this sound like a lot of fun to mess around with, but it'll be interesting to see where and how the marketing opportunites appear on the very small screen.
The service launches in 2007, and you can view a demo here.
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