Jack and His Friends Are on the Move - Cingular and MySpace
By Wade Forst on Thursday, December 21st, 2006MySpace is finally mobile!
If you are one of the many that might ask, “Why in the world would someone need to have remote access to a social website like MySpace?” you might be dating yourself. MySpace is far more than a place to host your favorite pics, songs and friends; it is now the town hall, the water cooler and even the Email client of choice.
Plans are made, groups are created and friendships are re-kindled. Cingular understood the importance of connecting its’ users with this powerful social media website to create mobile 2.0 (kidding)… actually maybe 3.0 if you consider how text-based communication changed the mobile industry.
So what will be different? Cingular customers can now update their Blogs remotely, upload new photos via their camera-phone, add new friends that they just met and delete those pesky ones that are “off the list.” Consider this addition the Blackberry for the Generation Y and younger crowds.
So what does the future hold for social media? Expect your content to be delivered faster and friendlier over a broad range of devices and mediums. Now, let’s sit back and watch what happens between Orange and Google. (Google phone anyone…)












I also recently read that Yahoo and Motorola are doing something similar. Apparently in Q1 of 2007 Motorola will start loading Yahoo email, address book, search and local search features on their phones.