Asian innovation in mobile social networking
For a change, over the weekend, I stumbled on an excellent presentation, What Asia can tell us about mobile social networks, from O’Reilly’s conference, Graphing Social Patterns East, held in June in Washington DC. The presenter was Benjamin Joffe who resides in Beijing where, among other things, he’s the founder of Mobile Monday Beijing. Some of his numbers may be a year old, but the impact is clear. Asian services like QQ (740M registered users), CyWorld (used by 90% of young Koreans) and Mixi (10M mobile users in Japan) typically started before Facebook, have many more features, and are profitable!
