CMS WIRE -- July 11 -- The Social Networking Conference started today
in San Francisco. The show was also running a concurrent track on the
ever growing world of mobile social networking. To start things off, we
were treated to a keynote presentation by Britt Selvetille, Senior
Engineer of Twitter. He stressed the importance of simplicity and
remember the end goal: that we work in social networking because we
want to make people better connected. Mark Brooks, editor of Social
Networking Watch, gave us some interesting statistics on social
networking: South Korea, Brazil and China were top 3 users of social
sites. Brooks also gave some figures on who is actually making money in
the space, but theorized that niche sites are where the money is likely
to be made. Speaking to the mobile element of the conference, Brooks
mentioned that most mobile activity is in e-mail or in sending pictures
or video. Use of the mobile web is limited, primarily because the
experience is still so lacking in the majority of cell phones. FULL ARTICLE @ CMS WIRE