http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/10/11/mobile-web-20-book/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:33:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/10/11/mobile-web-20-book/#comment-35902 Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mobile, Web 2.0, Hype, Reality, and Openness Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:59:39 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=215#comment-35902 [...] So if Mobile 2.0 isn’t about the technology what is it about? One of the primary aspect is the user generated content angle I mentioned when I posted about the Mobile Web 2.0 book. But even that term is started to get thrown around like magic pixie dust. Allowing users to make your content for you doesn’t cut it. This is about users communicating and interacting in meaningful and comfortable manner, which you as a service provider support in such a way that it both maximizes the experience the user has while generating something that you can reuse. That’s sustainable, and very very hard to do correctly. Slam together some basic XHTML pages for users to fill in their interests, allow them to put up a picture, claim to be a mobile social networking site, and then spend all the time you should be using to evolve your product shouting from the rooftops how you’re a mobile 2.0 company cause you have user generated content? No, that doesn’t qualify. [...] [...] So if Mobile 2.0 isn’t about the technology what is it about? One of the primary aspect is the user generated content angle I mentioned when I posted about the Mobile Web 2.0 book. But even that term is started to get thrown around like magic pixie dust. Allowing users to make your content for you doesn’t cut it. This is about users communicating and interacting in meaningful and comfortable manner, which you as a service provider support in such a way that it both maximizes the experience the user has while generating something that you can reuse. That’s sustainable, and very very hard to do correctly. Slam together some basic XHTML pages for users to fill in their interests, allow them to put up a picture, claim to be a mobile social networking site, and then spend all the time you should be using to evolve your product shouting from the rooftops how you’re a mobile 2.0 company cause you have user generated content? No, that doesn’t qualify. [...]

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