tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18266737.post1481962777721020603..comments2007-03-28T16:13:40.584+01:00Andrew Girdwoodhttps://profiles.google.com/107146049219041450350noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18266737.post-7148646719608423122007-03-28T16:01:00.000+01:002007-03-28T16:01:00.000+01:00Hi Andrew,<BR/><BR/>Alfie here from moblogUK. You met a colleague of mine, Jonathan Allen, who pointed me at this post.<BR/><BR/>Really interesting, I completely agree with the take on IM/SMS, but I think that with Super SMS/IMS/SMS 2.0 that a lot of the thinking that Pitch/Carat may have been making on this will be superceded by what people *actually* want to do with their phones, and what their phones are *actually* good at doing.<BR/><BR/>Web-like experience on mobile are frankly, crap, and they will remain to be so. It is in persistent presence functionality that value can be given to the user through the mobile, which of course is where SMS/IMS, and IM come into their own. Just two thoughts:<BR/><BR/>1) IMS - Integrated messaging; super sms, or SMS 2.0 - basically forget all the protocol based traffic - sms, mms, gprs etc - and just give people a unified inbox. This is coming up and will play a big part in how people treat a) messaging, and b) persistent presence stuff like twitter<BR/><BR/>2) As I said, I think it's the persistent presence stuff that is going to make mobile 'killer' for social networking; comment/post happens from a friend, you receive an sms, or even mms in IMS, you respond in text or pic/video, that is then put into the post. The user experience is seamless and they're still entirely "connected" to that post and their network, it's just that in practice the experience is much more similar to sending an SMS than it is to browsing a site.Alfie Dennenwww.moblog.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18266737.post-49480901492782937382007-03-28T03:48:00.000+01:002007-03-28T03:48:00.000+01:00Hello Andrew,<BR/><BR/>I am very interested in this post - I am an Australian PhD student researching women and mobile social networking. I have just started my studies and interested in executing a trial that will analyze behavious patterns of women using mobile phones. I will appreciate any thought you have on this. Cheers, Orit.<BR/>womenandmobile.blogspot.comOrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980451849512387447noreply@blogger.com