100th post: Changes in the world of mobile applications
As a blogger, I am not so productive: It takes me about 2 years to have the 100th post (about half of them are written within the past month). Look back at mobile applications I introduced in my blog, some of them have already disappeared, some of them become extremely popular and the rest also have signification changes.
My fist blog is about free SMS services. In this post, I mentioned two websites: txtbe.com and twitter.com. txtbe.com doesn’t exist anymore while twitter.com becomes the most successful microblogging service in the world though it no longer delivers tweets via SMS for free in most countries. It seems SMS is slowly being replaced by email.
I used to provide free invitation of Jaiku, another microblogging considered to be competitor of twitter, to readers of my blog. Though Jaiku has been acquired by Google, it only has about 50k unique visitors per day, while Twitter has about 30 million. I also used to give free invitation of GrandCentral away, which becomes Google Voice. And it seems that Google Voice will be part of the key strategy of Google.
My second post is about Morange, a pioneer of mobile clients for IM/SNS. After two years, it is still there but no too much movement ahead. Another company doesn’t change a lot is BetaMax: It still continues releasing similar VoIP services with new names of brands. Jaxtr is also a company I introduced in one of my early posts and now it has been bought by Sabse, what is also happened to Mobivox. Back to Morange, which is also a Java ME push email client, one of its competitor in this filed — Flurry just stopped the email and RSS services recently.
To be continued…