Mobile Social Networking and Instant Messaging
Another highlight at lift08 was the talk from Pierre Bellanger, founder and CEO of Skyrock.fm. Skyrock.fm is the leading social network in France with approximately 20 million users. From his perspective the biggest opportunity for growth is by bringing social networking and instant messaging to the mobile phone. Simply transferring concepts from the desktop to the mobile phone won’t do the job – the context when using your computer as well as technology and interface are completely different from mobile phones. You can see his speech here:
