The Rising Hype Around Mobile Community Networks

Socia Communities are fickle. OK, there I said it. I sometimes think that we tend to get all excited about every single new concept for social networking that comes out. It’s important to remember that.

The hype around social networks and community sites going mobile is steadily increasing, and there’s a reasonable chance it’s justified. MySpace is the most famous in the US, which is busy with plans to be on every major carrier by 2007 (up from Helio and Cingular)…but perhaps the biggest is Cyworld, the Korean social networking site which gets 22 billion page hits a month. Around 92% of Korean 20-somethings have a personal page on the site, and it rakes in around US$200,000 per day, 10% of that from mobile services which allow people to check and update their site from their mobile phone.
As well as established sites going mobile new mobile-specific sites are launching. The latest is Q121, which is just leaving beta (a list of some others is at this blog…not to mention MocoSpace, nothing to do with us). The site will allow registered members to “share their interests, and organize their personal content on Q121.com Web site, then upload that content — ringtones, music, wallpaper, even video clips — to their phones… Source: mocco.news