Facebook now on iPhones!
Heya, Keith, the day is here!
Late one foggy evening at Blowfish Sushi in front of an audience of Vivian and I, keithpr prophesied Myspace to be the first online social networking tool to jump on the mobile bandwagon. Not a bad forecast, as last year this time, media giant Rupert had just bought Myspace for $580 million in hopes of exploiting the next advertising goldmine on the internet, while a college-based site called Facebook was still a smidgen in the virtual world of hobnobbin'.
However, while Myspace was busy pondering over the issues of advanced search technologies and precision-target ads, as well as fighting off fierce competition from Youtube, Facebook slowly crept its way to the front of the race through user friendliness, auto-complete fields, easy photo upload, cross-referenced everythings, and enough add-on apps to satisfy even the most ADD-afflicted folks.
In a recent keynote speech to 800 designers and developers at the San Francisco Design Center, founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed Facebook to be the fastest growing social networking site, adding about 100,000 new users per day. And to pre-empt any trumping to be done by its competitors, Facebook struck a deal with our favorite guys in Palo Alto to make the popular socioblog tool available on the new iPhones.
So Keith, where does that bring us in the mobile media age? Factor in bluetooth, a portable social network, and a sexy gadget. How much longer before casual utterances of "Hi, how are ya, I saw you from across the room" be replaced by digital pixels, with the transcribed version on your handheld phone? Not too soon, I hope, as I'm not quite ready for the age of virtual butterflies-in-my-stomach when Mr. Right says hello. For now, let's hope to limit the Facebook affliction to traditional face-to-computer-face time and leave the virtual aspect of networking at home.
Late one foggy evening at Blowfish Sushi in front of an audience of Vivian and I, keithpr prophesied Myspace to be the first online social networking tool to jump on the mobile bandwagon. Not a bad forecast, as last year this time, media giant Rupert had just bought Myspace for $580 million in hopes of exploiting the next advertising goldmine on the internet, while a college-based site called Facebook was still a smidgen in the virtual world of hobnobbin'.
However, while Myspace was busy pondering over the issues of advanced search technologies and precision-target ads, as well as fighting off fierce competition from Youtube, Facebook slowly crept its way to the front of the race through user friendliness, auto-complete fields, easy photo upload, cross-referenced everythings, and enough add-on apps to satisfy even the most ADD-afflicted folks.
In a recent keynote speech to 800 designers and developers at the San Francisco Design Center, founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed Facebook to be the fastest growing social networking site, adding about 100,000 new users per day. And to pre-empt any trumping to be done by its competitors, Facebook struck a deal with our favorite guys in Palo Alto to make the popular socioblog tool available on the new iPhones.
So Keith, where does that bring us in the mobile media age? Factor in bluetooth, a portable social network, and a sexy gadget. How much longer before casual utterances of "Hi, how are ya, I saw you from across the room" be replaced by digital pixels, with the transcribed version on your handheld phone? Not too soon, I hope, as I'm not quite ready for the age of virtual butterflies-in-my-stomach when Mr. Right says hello. For now, let's hope to limit the Facebook affliction to traditional face-to-computer-face time and leave the virtual aspect of networking at home.
posted by ShanghaiSherry.com at
12:07 PM
1 Comments:
Your memory is incredible.
I'm not sure I recall specifically what I spoke of when I was playing Nostradamus, but some thoughts...
I may have mentioned at that time that Myspace would be the featured social network on Helio, the mobile carrier backed by Earthlink and SK Telecom.
In the short time between Blowfish and the present, I have all but given up on MySpace and have turned my social network love to Facebook.
Facebook provides users with a stronger mobile interface primarily because of its robust SMS commands that allow you to add, message, wall a friend, among other things.
Facebook's mobile controls are device agnostic since all it requires is plain SMS. Managing your profile is limited with SMS, but you can't do jack with MySpace via text messaging.
From what I read of the fbook app for iphone, it will revolutionize social networking. I don't think so.
We won't see a paradigm shift in mobile social networking for some time. The iPhone will remain coveted and sexy -- but in the minority of mobile users for now.
On the last point, I agree with you: Leave the devices at home when we're actually face-to-face. I'd hate to see us trolling match.com right in front of each other.
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