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Monday, October 30, 2006
Mobile user-generated content to thrive
Informa believes that mobile access to user-generated content (Web 2.0 sites if you will) will be big business, and that existing brands in this market will lead.
I believe so too, but I also believe there are possibilities for mobile-only or mobile-enabling services to pop up all over the place and take a slice of the market. E.g. ShoZu is such a service: Without actual image archives ShoZu would be of no value.
Actually UGC can change news media as we know it. If most people read news at aggregation/popularity sites like digg, reddit etc the original news sources might be left behind from an end-user perspective, serving those that choose what news to highlight. Maybe even TV, radio and magazine news will get an element of UGC to try to stay on top.
Of course mobile UGC also applies to blogs, chat and other services, including those that aggregate several of the known methods of UGC, like MySpace.
News | Mobile UGC set for major boost - NMA
I believe so too, but I also believe there are possibilities for mobile-only or mobile-enabling services to pop up all over the place and take a slice of the market. E.g. ShoZu is such a service: Without actual image archives ShoZu would be of no value.
Actually UGC can change news media as we know it. If most people read news at aggregation/popularity sites like digg, reddit etc the original news sources might be left behind from an end-user perspective, serving those that choose what news to highlight. Maybe even TV, radio and magazine news will get an element of UGC to try to stay on top.
Of course mobile UGC also applies to blogs, chat and other services, including those that aggregate several of the known methods of UGC, like MySpace.
News | Mobile UGC set for major boost - NMA
