Mobile Trend Topics
A few 'curated links' from my recent mobile trends research. The Read It Later analysis is particularly interesting.
Read It Later asks ‘is mobile affecting when we read?’ and answers with a data-driven ‘yes’ based on their crunching of ‘100 million articles saved by Read It Later users across all major web and mobile platforms.’ Complete with graphs suggesting among other things that the iPad isn’t quite a mobile device.
Facebook mobile use continues to expand (explode?). 150 million Facebook users in 2010, more than double the 65 million of 2009. But more important - each of those 150 million mobile users create twice the activity of desktop users.
Facebook could potentially be accessible on any GSM phone in the world, with the Facebook for SIM card infrastructure. No web browser or data plan required - the application supports all the text-based portions of Facebook transmitting over SMS. Interesting development indeed, not only for its novel use of SMS as remoting protocol, but because it expands the reach of Facebook as ‘second internet’.
