Vote! Why do you use social location apps?
Zedmo is presenting at Northern Voice, May 7-8 in Vancouver! We will be discussing social location apps, like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Zedmo. In the meantime, we’d love to get your feedback on why you use these kinds of applications in your life. We’ll be discussing the results during the presentation.
Users are still frustrated with the mobile web
Gomez, a web application experience management services provide, just commissioned a report on mobile web usage. FierceWireless gave the scoop on some important findings:
- 2/3 users have had problems using the mobile web
- Half of mobile web users are willing to wait only 6 to 10 seconds or less for a web page to load on their phone before giving up
- More than two thirds of respondents said they would be unlikely to recommend a mobile website they had trouble accessing
What does this mean?
People want the mobile internet faster and more reliable and are likely to give up if made to wait too long. Mobile developers ought to continue to consider optimizing content for smaller screens and slower access speeds.
13 reasons why location-based services could grow bigtime by 2013
That would be 13 billion reasons: “Mobile location-based services will generate annual global revenues of $13.3 billion by 2013 up from $515 million in 2007 according to a new forecast released by market analysis firm ABI Research.”
95 million access internet exclusively through cellular
Dean Bubley at Disruptive Wireless has taken a stab at the number of people globally connecting to the internet through all access options: cellular, wired, WiFi, and combinations of all three. The results? Out of 1.295B people connected, 700 million access the internet only through wired, 95 million access it through cellular only, and only 26 million have a mix of all three etc.
I’m dubious of the cellular-only numbers. 80 million connectors not touching a PC? This seems large, but the concept is fascinating. Certainly in developing countries this makes a worthwhile cultural observation — all the build-out of cellular connectivity over fixed connectivity. Why build fixed networks when you can skip them entirely!
How will these numbers look in 10 years? I’d venture to say that exactly contrary to my doubts above the cellular-only piece of the pie will grow the most. This has so many implications to how the web will be used and how it ought to be so much more geared for those little screens.