User:Zinni.s

Social Networking is spilling over to mobile from web

Rise of social media has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information.Of late i have been obsevering the trends in social networking space, and especailly the mobile applications giving its users advantage to chat and communicate with friends and family around the world.There are numerous mobile applications that reaches out to people who are interested and passionate about networking.Most of these  applications  focus on building online relationships between people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Like most social network services they provides a variety of ways for users to interact, such as sms and instant messaging etc. These applications use highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. They let the user discover, chat, read and share information and content. The engagement of a user comes in terms of contests, communities and space where users can post his/her own content.The potential lies in the ability to transform people from content readers on mobile phone into publishers in an amazing way. The capability to cater to a global audience instantaneously with almost zero cost at the user end places attracts millionsof people to these applications.

One of the application is called Rocketalk. The application is good. It enables the user to to meet people, shoot vidieos and post them in the gallery. The best part is a user can chat friends using all three -voice,video text.

There are other applications too, like Nimbuzz, Ebuddy etc. each one of them offers instant chatting facility. The applications can be downloaded from either  Wap site or Website.

with the rise of moible applications, slowly but steadilty the mobile advertising is  also gaining popularity since mobile is new  and still an unexploreded way for the advertisers to advertise their products. The USP of mobile applications lies in their ability to reach the user on a media where he/she won't miss it or ignore it.