In this BBC Technology report Spencer Kelly talks about the movement towards social networking sites on mobile devices. As the mobile revolution has been expected for a couple of years now with many touting 2007 as the year of the uprising, this article makes for interesting reading.
Kelly also talks about how IBM are envisioning Second Life persona’s interacting directly with mobile devices on the ground. Microsoft has been talking for years now about blurring the line between the desktop and the Internet but this concept seems to be heading towards blurring the line between reality and virtual reality!
However, I’ll not get too carried away just yet as the mobile web still hasn’t managed to conquer its two biggest hurdles, i.e. bandwidth constraints and the eye watering cost of any sort of substantial mobile surfing….
