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April 09, 2006
Helio is your "Portable MySpace"
CNET News.com has several videos from CTIA 2006 in Las Vegas. It includes a video from Helio CEO Sky Dayton.
Wired's article Sky Dayton Gets Mobile offers additional insights into this entrepreneur and the direction of mobile technologies. Comparing American consumers to their South Korean counterparts, he says, "There's this massive group of young, tech-savvy consumers, and they're just living in the Dark Ages." The article continues,
"In addition to the handsets themselves, Helio will provide customized services. Thanks to an exclusive deal with MySpace, customers will be able to post photos and blog entries to the site directly from their handsets. Helio's music service will offer streaming as well as downloads and easy syncing with your PC. Eventually it will let you rate artists and songs so you hear what you like and not what you don't, and it will enable you to share music with friends who use Helio. Dynamic wallpaper will let you pick your interests - music, fashion, sports, financial news - and direct the handset to update itself hourly with new info. One click will take you to the Web for the full story."
It will be interesting to see how the corporate world reacts to this MySpace generation. Be forewarned.
April 9, 2006 at 08:15 PM in Moblogging, Weblogs, Wireless Web | Permalink
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Hi Rick,
This is an interesting new service for the MySpace generation. However, one of my concerns is: what will happen when the corporate world DOES catch up with this generation?
Although, I am still categorized as the "MySpace generation," I migrated away from it to Blogger. I realized that a more professional blog would benefit me most. Although, I may be the minority at this point, once the corporate world catches up, I am sure that many others will migrate as well.
I am waiting for a new social network to arise that will help the MySpace generation step into the corporate world...something between MySpace and Blogger/Wordpress, etc.
Thanks for this new incite, I am very excited to see what technology has in store.
-Christopher Salazar
Posted by: Christopher Salazar | Apr 10, 2006 4:26:57 PM
