Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Posted by Roberto
10:39 AM
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POCKET PEERS, PEERCHASING
CIRCLES OF TRUST AND MOBILE MEMORIES
In their modern forms and with their new functions, mobile phones are moving on to become storage and display systems in which items of interest are shared.
In Japan, the MIXI entertainment community ("MIX"+"I") for maintaining remote friendships and relationships (similar to Friendster, Myspace, Orkut) has seen the number of its members reaching 3 million (increased by about 6 times over the past year and it has grew from 2 million to 3 millon in only 84 days). One of the features that its users enjoy most is the Ashiato feature: the trace / footprint automatically notified in the Ashiato log whenever someone visits one's personal page, which makes it easier to initiate a discussion.
These ideas of circles of trust, communication with distinct (but flexible) boundaries, of calls as group events rather than two-way exchanges, all point to some fundamental changes in the definition of mobile-phone conversation.
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