‘Web 2.0 on the go’

Cellphone bloggers and social networkers (as opposed to Web-based ones) are more likely to upload pictures and videos because they have the camera right in their hands, the BBC reports. Web-based socializers use text more because the keyboard’s at their fingertips. The BBC cites the view of a mobile-social-networking executive that mobile socializing is more about people’s lifestyles and Web socializing more about opinion, politics, etc., but I think he’s thinking about adult Web 2.0 users more than teenaged ones. The next big thing, a BBC source says, is using phones not to access social sites like Bebo and virtual worlds like Second Life, but as bridges to connect virtual world and real one. For example, the avatar of a friend of yours in Second Life calls you on your cellphone from “in-world” (because you’re not in-world at the moment), and when you pick up, you see the picture of her avatar on your phone screen (so you know where she’s calling from). Check out this thoughtful article.