Diploma Inflatie, Master in twitternomics?

Het moet niet gekker worden. Binnenkort kan je een  jaar durende cursus bij de Birmingham City University volgen op het gebied van social networking sites als communicatie en marketing tools. De cursus, die begin volgend jaar start, werd bekendgemaakt door middel van een geïmproviseerde video op de website van de universiteit.

Jon Hickman, de studie coordinator, zei hij had een goede reacties van potentiële studenten had ontvangen. Bij ons komt het over als een te vroege 1 april grap. What’s next?  Een Master in Twitternomics?

Millennial generation & mobile social

According to In-stat: Mobile social networks are quite popular with the Millennial generation, just as social networking is, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com . Blogging, photo and video sharing, location-based socialization services, games, SMS, and IM will eventually be combined to afford the mobile user the entire social networking experience from a handset application, the high-tech market research firm says. The mobile handset will simply become an extension of the user in most aspects of life.

Nice quote about Mobile Social Networking

Kent Ferguson, Client Services Manager, Nielsen Mobile: “Social networking is already a global phenomenon, and mobile could be the next big thing in the space. Large numbers of people are interacting with their social networking profiles while they’re on the move. There could be increased consumer demand for mobile social networking driven by the flat fee price plans offered by the leading operators that give subscribers unlimited mobile Internet access.”

Opera Web Survey

According to Opera’s survey of the more 11.9 million Opera Mini users in March, almost 41% of mobile traffic now goes to social networking — up to 60% in some countries, including the US. Compare that to about 6% of total web traffic for social networks outside of the mobile web. That’s not overly surprising, though, given the recent proliferation of new smartphones aimed at consumers (or at least phones that can view the full web), made ultra-chic over the past year by Apple’s iPhone. Says Opera, 3/4ths of mobile web traffic is now to the full web, rather than WAP or .mobi sites, which are quickly becoming out-moded.

Number of mobile social networking users exceeded 50 million

A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media concludes that the number of mobile social networking users exceeded 50 million, approximately 2.3% of the global mobile user population on December 31 2007. Some of thee users were registered in multiple mobile communities, engaging with friends, having fun and sharing their passions with others. With only low investments from mobile network operators, the growth in users and community registrations will continue at a CAGR of 30-50%, depending on the type of community and the region. By 2012, there will be between 12.5% penetration of mobile social networks among mobile users globally in the most conservative scenario, approximately 23% in the high growth scenario. source

Mobile social geolocation for the Blackberry by GyPsii

GyPSii connects people and content to places and networks. GyPSii is part of GeoSolutions B.V, a subsidary of Geosentric, a publicly quoted stock on the Helsinki Exchanges (OMX), GeoSentric Oyi. GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web. It is a UGC (user generated content), social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications – for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a geo-tag (location data) – place and track each other in their select communities. Find people and places, points of interest, map and navigate to them all. GyPSii for BlackBerry smartphones is now available for download at the GyPSii website – www.gypsii.com or directly through your BlackBerry Browser at gypsii.com/m Here is a demo on a Nokia N95

Mobile Social Networking Platforms are popping up like mushrooms

Juice Wireless, the US based mobile marketing company launched JuiceCaster in Mumbai on Friday. JuiceCaster is a mobile application that offers unified mobile and web social media application for tech-savvy Indians and IT professionals. source: http://www.cxotoday.com/India/News/Now_Social_Networking_Goes_Mobile/551-86468-912.html

Movius Interactive Corporation, a global leader in messaging, collaboration and mobile media solutions, was unveiled today as the new corporate brand of the former IP Unity Glenayre.

Along with the new corporate identity, Movius is also introducing the company’s strategic direction for the next generation of mobile media and messaging solutions. For complete story: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16383/545/

Loomia announced the launch of SeenThis?, the first major Internet application that allows people to bring their existing social networks with them directly onto the pages of third party content sites across the Internet. SeenThis? enables audiences to automatically discover what’s most popular with their friends and groups from leading social networking sites– while a user is visiting a content site or social network. Loomia’s initial launch partners, The Wall Street Journal Online, NBC Universal, and CNET Networks, are leading the trend toward convergence of social networks with the rest of the Internet. Source: http://www.901am.com/2008/loomia-unveils-application-with-wsjcom-nbc-universal-and-cnet.html