Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Web, tagged business, LBS, location, Mobile, mobile search, mobile social networking, search on June 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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Another one in the “What I want…” series. I’m focusing on ‘Local Search on mobile’ and not ‘Search on mobile’ because people searching from their mobiles will usually be doing so on the go and hence would mostly be focusing on local content like searching for something or someplace close by (or someone, [...]
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Stumbled upon this post by Josh Lowensohn which talks about a new service in town….Adocu
It’s a Twitter clone. There’s no 140 character limit, but spaces are not allowed, you have to fit everything in one word like “whatingodsnameisthis”.
They call it Nanoblogging.
I’m a bit skeptical about this but then I was skeptical about Twitter as well [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Usability, User Experience, Web, tagged business, location, Mobile, mobile social networking, scenarios, Social Networking, User Experience on May 27, 2008 | 20 Comments »
In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had discussed how mobile can extend the reach of a social network and open up new ways of socializing. 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 [...]
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In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had written about the values mobile phone brings to a social network. Social networking, by definition, is about people that want to keep in touch with their friends and share info among them by the hour. Now, you can’t expect someone to roam around [...]
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When I first came across Twitter, I couldn’t understand it. So I can put 140 characters on a web site to tell the world what I am doing at the moment… Who cares? And why would I want to know what others happen to be doing at the exact moment they decide to share it [...]
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With international favorites like Facebook, Orkut (yes, it’s back) and MySpace gaining traction in Indian markets, it’ll be really difficult for the “me too” websites with a “follow the leader” mentality to hold out in this space. In a product where the content is 100% user created, a country specific product seems out of place.
Big [...]
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Social networking via the mobile phone is a big buzz these days. MOBILE user generated content and social networking was worth 3.45 B in 2006 (don’t have access to current numbers but I bet it’ll be more than double that). New services for mobile phones have been developed that allow people to create, develop, and [...]
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