According to a survey on The Future of the Internet III by Pew Research, the following were predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020:

- The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.


- The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.


- Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.


- Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing arms race, with the crackers who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.


- The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.


- Next-generation engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.

Today, we see a lot discussion around topics such as mobile marketing, mobile advertising, mobile search, SMS services, barcode technology, mobile video, augmented reality, touch screen technology, location based services (LBS), and the list goes on. However, I believe we are still only scratching the surface of what mobile has to offer. Who knows what the next 10+ years of mobile innovation will bring us. I am not sure about you but I’m certainly excited.

Isn’t it time to rethink our perspective on mobile? What do you think?

In case you missed the event, I co-presented on the topic of mobile recruiting with friend and fellow mobile enthusiast Chris Hoyt (AKA – RecruiterGuy). Oh, and while you are visiting his site, you might want to take a moment to read his most recent post, “What I learned (and taught) at Camp…”. Great stuff as usual. Finally, if you don’t already, I would highly encourage following Chris on Twitter. He’s definitely worth the follow…

Check out the Mobile Recruiting slideshow below…

Enjoy!

Interesting commentary from ReadWriteWeb…

The next big trend for social networking is the rise of the mobile social network. Gen Y’s cell phone addiction has given way to a proliferation of these mobile networks, each one trying to be the MySpace of the mobile web. The number of users on these services is growing fast – in fact, a new study by InStat is predicting that by 2012, there will be nearly 30 million “millennials” in the U.S. using a mobile social network of some sort, and a ComputerWorld report confirms that worldwide, that number will soar to 975 million by 2012.

Mobile Social Web: 975 Million Users By 2012 – ReadWriteWeb.

Interesting post from Scott Gordon on RecruitingBlogs.com:

I honestly think that this is outstanding. I want to hire her..and hire her now. The recruiter at what ever cell phone provider she uses should be on her like stink. Who better to market their devices other than a girl that can send 484 text messages per day??

I don’t have kids but I can only imagine what I’d do if I were her dad. A monthly cell phone bill of $2900 bucks. 484 text messages per day – to FOUR – of her friends. Grrrrrrrand total per month – 14,528 text messages that generated a 400 page phone bill.

WHY is her dad so friggen happy??

Interesting usage trends follow. Recruiters take note: When you’ve got initiative there are no limits! OOOOOO…YOU ARE SO GROUNDED!! OOOOOOO!!!!

Google, Yahoo and MSN/Windows Live were the most popular websites in 2008; Yahoo Mail, Google Search and Gmail were the top mobile websites; and the Motorola (MOT) RAZR V3 series was the most popular cell-phone handset, according to The Nielsen Company, which released its annual “Top 10″ internet and mobile website rankings for the year.

The article has some interesting stats and tables.

Top 10 Internet and Mobile Sites, Handsets – Seeking Alpha.

Social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, are seeing huge boosts in traffic thanks to mobile phones, with average users checking their profiles more than eight times a day, says new research.

Mobile phone network Orange said 640,000 of its customers are accessing social networking sites through their mobile phones, accounting for 166m page impressions every month.

Individual users will check or update social networking sites a total of 260 times per month, an average of eight times per day.

Social networking site addiction drives mobile internet access – Digital News – Brand Republic.

Startups to Secure the Millenials – NYTimes.com.

Ployme connects employers and casual workers using mainly SMS.

What’s often forgotten in the hullabaloo over social media is that SMS is an effective and widely used communication tool (refer graph). AIMIA’s recent ‘Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index’ report found 84% of Australians considered SMS an expenditure item. In other words – regular SMS usage is universal.

HRO Today surveyed a broad range of Software as a Service (SaaS) providers to find out what goodies they are bringing to HR and how these tools can help organizations vastly improve services, make data more accessible and help HR professionals spend less time on administration and more time on important things.