(keitai-l) Re: Justin Chamberlain on i-mode

- I think we need to think about the mobile Internet not just from a short 
term perspective where
-  simple and interesting contents are important but also from a long term 
perspective. In the long run, the value of the mobile internet will be a 
function of the number of linkages between sites just as the linkages 
between sites on the fixed-line internet are critical. Mobile phone screens 
will become bigger and the growing use of other types of handsets (PDAs, 
e-mail handsets) to access the mobile Internet will make these linkages 
indispensable. If Docomo continues to restrict the linkages between official 
and non-official sites, I-mode will never become the truly valuable system 
that it has the potential to become.
-
- (Jeff Funk)

Ren Kuroda wrote:
I don't actually think this holds true for wireless. I honestly think the 
value
of a wireless network is in the quality of contents, not the quantity.

Which is why a limited walled garden of only 650 quality sites is much 
better on
a cellphone than thousands of random sites...

Then again your point of networking people to each other (vs people to
information) is relevant -- email on i-mode is successful partially b/c 
it's
connected to ALL email networks by default (note for example J-Phone can 
only
SEND to any email address; to receive from a non-J-Phone email address you 
need
to sign up and pay extra).

r en


Zimran Ahmed wrote:

> The problem with walled gardens is when they fragment a network into
> several smaller networks. Just as Metcalf's law states that the value of
> a network grows by the square of the size of the network, as you make 
the
> size of the networks smaller the value of the network FALLS by the 
square
> of the size.

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