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Mobile 2.0 Research

Horizon Channel

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Horizon Channel ist eine neue, freie Fachinformationsplattform des Mobile2.0 Pioniers Ajit Joakar. Dabei geht man neue Wege in der Contentaufbereitung und bietet eine Kombination von Podcasts, Blog und Wiki um einen bidirektionalen Informationsfluss mit aktiver Feedbackschleife zu gewährleisten. Hier das Eröffnungsstatement des Gründers:

Horizon Channel is an interactive, new media channel. We combine Podcasting(Video and Audio podcasts) with Interactivity(Wikis and Blogs)

What makes us different? In a nutshell, the content of our shows and the knowledge of our presenters

We are launching Horizon Channel with two shows:

Emerging Web and Mobile technologies with Ajit Jaokar and

Communities Dominate Podcast with Alan Moore and Tomi Ahonen

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Research

UCG ist langweilig…

User generated online video: consumer usage exploded in 2006 but revenues will prove slow to develop. The honeymoon period for user generated content is over

so die Studien zum Thema Online User Vidoes von screendigest

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Mobile Social Networking Research

Weiter Studie zu MoSoSo

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Ein weiter Studie zum Thema MoSoSo kann man auf den Seiten von Abi-Research finden:

Mobile Social Communities
Understanding a New Way of Social Networking

This Research Brief is part of the Mobile Content Research Service

Mobile social communities are sites where mobile subscribers can communicate with groups of like-minded individuals. These sites are growing in importance as more users of PC-based social communities discover similar communities that they can reach via their mobile phones. Recognizing that there is a growing demand from consumers to access communities, many major online social networking sites are moving to mobile as well.

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Mobile 2.0 Research

Predictions for 2007

Der Jahreswechsel ist nahe und auf verschiedenen Blogs findet man Vorhersagen für das nächste Jahr:

Alles sind sich ziemlich einig, dass 2007 das Jahr wird in dem web2.0 Anwendungen und Dienst mobil werden und so das eigentlich schon für Tod erklärte mobile Web wiederbeleben. Mobile Social Ntework werden sich entablieren oder die bestehenden Marktführe wie myspace auf mobile Features setzten. Auch mobile Werbeformen werden sich etablieren und somit gänzlich andere Voraussetzungen für Business Modelle mobiler Dienste schaffen.

Der Experte für das mobile web Rudy De Waele stellt folgende 10 Thesen auf:

1. Flat fees will become more affordable bit by bit.
2. Thus, more user-generated content will become available to the phone; opening the way for mobile users to start using new web/mobile 2.0 services on their phones, such as podcasting, RSS feeds, more user-generated content to upload and use.
3. Big Media Youth Networks going mobile – MySpace, YouTube, MTV and many more players will resolutely go mobile; allowing users to upload pictures, videos and create/consume content straight from their mobile phones. And to share with friends (including mobile forwarding functionality).
4. Mobile search – the big players will start positioning seriously in the mobile market (watch out for deals with carriers/operators and device manufacturers)
5. Mobile ads – the market is growing at a rapid pace (just watch AdMob’s ad views ticker box daily)
6. QR codes will start to enter retail markets.
7. Mobile image recognition will pop up in mixed marketing campaigns.
8. Cell Phone memory card swapping – to exchange music/video files.
9. Multiple network download hotspots become available in urban zones – enabling ‚on the spot‘ mobile download and internet access possibilities via wi-fi/wimax/bluetooth/nfc/etc…. (all build in or available immediately)
10. Rise of ’smart client‘ solutions, for convergence of content and application functionality on mobile devices in general.

Dem ist eigentlich nichts mehr hinzuzufügen und deckt sich im Großen und Ganzen auch mit meinen Vorstellungen. Was ich glaube, dass sich noch abzeichnen wird und was mich persönlich sehr freut, ist dass mobile blogging in Kombination mit mobile social networks endlich einen klaren Use Case hat und sicher auch 2007 eine Renaissance erleben wird.

Für Mobile Ajax hoffe ich, dass die Opera Plattform (aktuell auf Samsung und Nokia Endgeräten ab Werk installier) noch eine weitere Ausdehnung erfahren wird und dass Ajax am mobilen Endgerät bald ein Standard Feature werden kann.

[Update]

Noch ein paar höchst interessante Theorien zum neuen Jahr auf MobHappy

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Research

Trends für 2007

Wie jedes JAhr gibt es auf readwriteweb Prognosen von Experten für die laufende Entwicklung im nächsten Jahr. Für das den Themenbereich „mobile“ werden folgende Dinge voraus gesagt:

Mobile

– VoIP space will really hot up. Skype and a bunch of new competitors will compete and potentially disrupt the telecoms industry.

– Mobile Web may be the big story of 2007 – certainly in China, Korea and Japan; but perhaps even the US and other ‚behind the times‘ places like New Zealand and Australia. Related to this is that online/offline mobile technologies like Smartpox may become more popular in the West (they already are in Asia).

– Mobile will be a bigger development and advertising platform in ’07 (jajah mobile etc).

– Also watch for an emerging Webphone market – for example Apple’s rumored iPhone and a GooglePhone.

Courtesy of mobile Web expert Rudy De Waele, here are 10 specific trends for mobile Web in ’07:

1. Flat fees will become more affordable bit by bit.
2. Thus, more user-generated content will become available to the phone; opening the way for mobile users to start using new web/mobile 2.0 services on their phones, such as podcasting, RSS feeds, more user-generated content to upload and use.
3. Big Media Youth Networks going mobile – MySpace, YouTube, MTV and many more players will resolutely go mobile; allowing users to upload pictures, videos and create/consume content straight from their mobile phones. And to share with friends (including mobile forwarding functionality).
4. Mobile search – the big players will start positioning seriously in the mobile market (watch out for deals with carriers/operators and device manufacturers)
5. Mobile ads – the market is growing at a rapid pace (just watch AdMob’s ad views ticker box daily)
6. QR codes will start to enter retail markets.
7. Mobile image recognition will pop up in mixed marketing campaigns.
8. Cell Phone memory card swapping – to exchange music/video files.
9. Multiple network download hotspots become available in urban zones – enabling ‚on the spot‘ mobile download and internet access possibilities via wi-fi/wimax/bluetooth/nfc/etc…. (all build in or available immediately)
10. Rise of ’smart client‘ solutions, for convergence of content and application functionality on mobile devices in general.

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Mobile Gaming Research

Trend: Mobile MMORPGs

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