The Future of Mobile Social Networks

Insights on Mobile Social Networking When we at Peperoni started to build our first solution for the mobile web back in 2000, I saw the business potential of mobile data technologies, but I must admit that today I am pleasantly surprised and very glad about the technological and economic progress in our mobile industry. And weiterlesen…

W3C Social Networking Workshop (2nd day), Barcelona, Spain

Real Networking around virtual Social Networks The second day at the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking started with three lectures; ‚Adding Context to Location and Adapting the user experience according to context‘ by Julian Pye (Vodafone Group R&D Germany), ‚Sentient Computing meets Social Networking‘ by Simon Hay (University of Cambridge) and ‚Capturing, Using, weiterlesen…

W3C Social Networking Workshop (1st day), Barcelona, Spain

Does Social Networks need Standardization? I joined the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona/Spain, with the high level goal of bringing together the world experts on social networking design, management and operation 🙂 After Registration and welcome by Christine Perey and Dominique Hazael-Massieux the workshop started with four Presentations on Appropriate weiterlesen…

Olivia Hilton from Jumbuck in Interview with inbabble.com

Olivia Hilton on mobile chat in interview with inbabble.com Hey! Today I saw an interesting interview on inbabble.com with Olivia Hilton (Jumbuck) on mobile chat and I just couldn’t resist to smile on this text passage: A fast thinker, Olivia Hilton isn’t afraid to make honest statements about her mobile dating competition, such as Mobiflirt weiterlesen…

How big and valuable is a community?

One of my personal interests and tasks at Peperoni is to track the development of our industry sector (Mobile UGC / Mobile Social Networks). Furthermore people (mostly investment bankers 🙂 ask me often how big and valuable our community is – but honestly, it’s not easy to answer this question satisfiable. In our and other communities weiterlesen…

CopyCats – our companions

Mobile is our business… The phenomenon ‚CopyCats‚ isn’t new for us, because they have been constant companions for us since the beginning of our mobile business back in 2000. For example there was a company called IMOCOS International Mobile Content Service AG in Osnabrück providing a wap search engine and later on a similar mobile user generated weiterlesen…