Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

Time Magazine has a rather intriguing article about the future of mobile porn vis a vis the iPhone.

Several iPhone-friendly adult sites have popped up with video clips optimized for the iPhone. iPhone’s browser gives adult content companies an upper hand they’ve not previously had with other mobile carriers: restrictions by network providers.

Mobile porn is a $1.7 billion industry, but half of that income comes from Western Europe, where liberal mobile service providers allow adult content to be broadcast over their phones. With iPhone, there are no such restrictions.
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While Facebook has overtaken MySpace as the world’s number one social networking site by widening their global reach, other social networks have more significant regional strangleholds that will be hard to crack. For example, Orkut is weak in much of the world but dominant in Brazil.

The most glaring example of this regional favoritism my be in Asia, where Friendster remains the top dog and isn’t abdicating its advantage anytime soon. With many complaints about the site having been addressed, and the rapidly emerging connectivity of Asia’s nearly 4 billion residents, Friendster is a much ignored behemoth in social networking.

According to comScore, Friendster has increased its monthly unique visitors from 23 million in April last year to around 40 million this year, with the vast majority of new visitors coming from the Asia-Pacific region. Friendster doubled Facebook and MySpace in April for unique hits in Asia, and tripled Hi5 and Orkut.
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YouTube is now allowing certain users to submit far longer videos than the old ten-minute maximum that has been the case for the site since its inception. Videos of up to 1GB are now going to be shown on YouTube, which would allow for clips that approach an hour and a half in duration.

Concurrently with this announcement, YouTube is courting directors at the Los Angeles Film Festival, attempting to get young and up-and-coming directors to put their content on the site.
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It’s past 10AM Pacific time, the moment the big Firefox Download Day is supposed to start, and Mozilla’s Firefox homepage just took five minutes to load and prompted me to download Firefox 2.

Better yet, the Spreadfirefox.com site that shows us how many people over the world have pledged to participate in Firefox 3 Download Day is not loading.

This is not going according to plan for Mozilla.
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The new iPhone is receiving near-universal praise from tech circles, and there’s plenty of reasons why. It’s powerful, cheaper, and cooler than anything out there. The original iPhone reports customer satisfaction that is off the charts, and the next gen iPhone is even faster. Add to this a built-in iPhone store combined with the iPhone’s upcoming availability in far more markets than it’s in now, and it seems as though Google Android developers would be jumping ship, if only for their own good.

Not so fast. As Vasanth Sridharan reports in Silicon Alley Insider, there are a few very important reasons why Android developers are hesitant to make the leap.
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