Mobile Entertainment is today's theme, so Steve Largent started off this morning's keynote with some stats about how people are entertaining themselves on tehir devices:
- monthly MMS grew by 125% in the past year
- there were 472 million MMS messages sent in June 2007 alone
-carrier data revenue reached $1.5 billion in the first months of 2007
Steve also announced that October 13, 2008 will be the 25th anniversary of the first commercial wireless phone call, and that to commemorate that date, CTIA is asking folks to vote on the Top Ten moments in wireless on their website.
Dustin Moskowitz, Co-Founder, Facebook
Dustin Moskowitz started off his keynote by talking about the evolution of the company. Considering facebook's gaining popularity in the business community as a networking tool (the over 35 demographic is the fastest growing), it probably would have been just as appropriate from him to have spoken yesterday.
Dustin began by talking about the company's "unprecedented" growth, in both the US and abroad. There are now 49 million active facebook users with 200,000 users joining daily. With such widespread adoption, facebook has become an effective multi-media communication tool, and like all communication, people want to be able to use it on the go.
Currently, facebook supports SMS, MMS, and mobile web, and Dustin announced that they are adding two new mobile applications.
- the ability for third pary apps to have 'boxes' on mobile profiles
- the ability for third party app developers to communicate with users through SMS
Dustin also brought RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis and announced Facebook for Blackberry, which Mike demoed. The application will make it possible to upload and tag photos to Facebook- within the phone's camera application. It will also offer a central location for Facebook messages and announcements. It looks really great- I am going to download it as soon as I am finished writing this post!
Afterwards, the big announcements, I had a chance to sneak backstage to see where the speakers all hang out:
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