Mobile Web News, Week of August 13, 2007

August 14, 2007 on 7:27 pm | In Mobile Web News, Web Design |

 

 

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Facebook on Your Mobile!
The cloning between desktop web and mobile web continues. Now Facebook has a special version for the iPhone. It’s slimmed down (no apps, no groups, no privacy settings), but at least it’s a beginning…
Source: Informationweek

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Skype on Your Mobile!
According to GigaOm, you can cut down your phone bill just like you do from your desktop. Using IM+ for Skype by Shapeservices.com, you log onto Skype from your mobile and call landlines and other mobiles using the SkypeOut service (which you should have an account for). You have to download IM+for Skype from Shapeservices and install it in your mobile first. There’s a one-week trial after which you have to pay $15 for the program.

I downloaded the trial, installed it in my Nokia N95, logged onto Skype and dialled a landline in the US. I couldn’t connect. I’m having this kind of bad experience with every app I download…

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12.3 Million Users in the US and W. Europe Accessed a Social Site in June
Out of that number, says mobile media intelligence firm MMetrics, 7.5 million accessed from the US, with MySpace getting the most hits. MSN Live Spaces was the site of choice in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. All this just proves the item below (so read on!).
Oh and yeah, this was reported by MarketWire.

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Social Networking Will Be the Biggest Mobile Web Earner by 2012
The revenues from social networking, dating and personal content delivery services will rise from $572m in 2007 to more than $5.7bn in 2012. Social networking will be pulling in 50% of that lucrative pie.

This was forecast by Juniper Research, the famed high-technology intelligence firm. Juniper also predicted that the social networks will be free and ad supported. 600 million people will be using social networking sites by 2012. That’s one helluva happy hour!

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