Mobile Social Goes Loco

A big piece in the NYTimes about social going mobile. Social is spreading even faster than initially thought.  Only in its early stages of maturity, it has already leap frogged into mobile – and in a big way.  I’m feeling that Helio Ocean, which was designed with mobile social (with myspace in particular) in mind.   As WAP 2.0 becomes the defacto platform, smart developers will be popping out of the woodwork to develop new, exciting mobile destinations using common XHTML. Not a place to make instant revenue, but a place for dreamers to catch like wildfire and be bought into google’s ecosystem. Twittr, a Rails application, is the first to be widely addictive in a way that Dodgeball, Socialight and others haven’t yet figured out. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/technology/30social.html?ref=business