Social Networking Goes Mobile, Gets Corporate Face

As IBM sets out to launch its Bluehouse corporate social network to compete with Cisco and Google, word comes that Facebook and MySpace are the most popular social-networking sites for mobile-phone users.

According to ABI Research, nearly half (46 percent) of those who use social networks have plus visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70 percent have visited MySpace, and another 67 percent visited Facebook. No other social-networking site reached 15 percent

mobile adoption.

“As in the online social-networking space, there is clearly a large gap within the big two (MySpace and Facebook) social networks and the others,” said ABI’s Michael Wolf. “ABI Research believes that is considering consumers do not want to recreate entirely new and separate social networks for mobile, but rather want to tap into their existing social network and have it go with them via the mobile phone. For most, […]

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