The sun is shining, the breeze is brisk, and it’s a good day to be outdoors.
Say what you will about the mobile revolution — and come down anywhere you like about the state of the mobile web in the United States. (Yes, we’re behind. Nations with less invested in fixed wiring leapfrogged, and rightly so.) The real benefit of Mobile Computing with regards to Social Networking is not the shifting of space, but of time.
I write this not from my PC, but from a Blackberry on a mobile browser. It’s a beautiful fall day, and I’m able to bang out a sentence or two in between watching the kids on the playground. I can share my thoughts closer to the time I actually have them. Who knows how many really great ideas evaporated before they were adequately transcribed?
The Mobile Web gives users the freedom to be inspired where the inspirations should emerge – closer to where we live and recreate, instead of where we toil and work.
Raw thoughts can be just that — raw. But I can take it. I’m in a good mood. And I think I’ll move over there to the shade…
I believe that you have captured the essence of the mobile web. If social media is about two-way conversations, we may want to pause and think about our ongoing personal approach to life and the unrelenting quest for continuous learning and the ways and tools for expressing ourselves. I have often carried pen and paper to capture the moment of creativity and inspiration … the advent of mobile web is about expressing the internal in the external moment of the present. The recent purchase of an iPod Touch (no iPhones in Canada at the present) has revealed glimpses of what the future holds. I look forward to more of your insights as the future of mobile web becomes the present.