Friending Without Benefits? But Facebook Keeps On Forging Into the Mobile Market!
In an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about an alliance being discussed between Facebook and Nokia, came news about the pair working on a deal to deeply integrate the hot social network with the handsets of world’s largest maker of mobile phones.
Although BoomTown has seen this movie before-a similar mobile deal with a Nokia (NOK) investment in Facebook was being bandied about a year ago-expect more noise than ever when it comes to social networking sites and mobile devices in 2009.
As you can see from the chart below (click on the image to make it larger), Facebook ran MySpace past the number of unique visitors via mobile phone in the early fall of 2008 and kept climbing.
Said the Journal article: "In December, Facebook had seven million U.S. mobile users, compared with MySpace’s 5.7 million, according to Nielsen Co." (Full disclosure: MySpace is owned by News Corp. (NWS), which also owns Dow Jones, the owner of this site.)
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