Why are Mobile Widgets Important?
MySpace and Facebook are the leading social network sites in the US with 53M and 25M unique users each month respectively*.
There are currently 35M mobile web users in the US*, and this market has grown at more than 50% per year for the last three years.***
There are 206M mobile phone subs in the US (17% use their data plans and 25% have data plans)
The Clearspring mobile syndication platform will be able to publish widgets to all carriers except Verizon when mobile launches and will offer the Verizon system before the end of 2007.
Globally, more people have mobile phones than PCs
There are 2.7 Billion mobile phone users around the world while there are 850M PCs: 800M cars; 1.3B fixed landline phones; 1.4B credit cards; 1.5B TV Sets**
*Source: Web data from Alexa and Quantcast; Mobile user data from Telephia and Comscore.
**Source: Communities Dominate Brands, book by Toni Ahonen and Alan Moore
***Source: Chetan Sharma Consulting
Companies to Watch:
Zyb.com
Mosh - Nokia's video sharing play
Facebook mobile
Netvibes is upgrading their mobile service
YouTube mobile
Yahoo! mobile
Hooqs.com - Application that allows users to easily create a video channel and post that video to a mobile device.
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