Tim Berners-Lee warned about walled gardens for the mobile internet saying that it “needs to be fully and completely the internet, nothing more and nothing less. It needs to be free of central control, universal, and embodied in open standards” further, Berners-Lee says: “The Web is an open platform on which you build other things…It’s very important to keep the Web universal as we merge the internet with mobile.”
As conclusion, mobile internet must use the same standards as they are known for the regular internet. Berners-Lee supports also open standards.

sevenval:

Jan Webering just finished a interesting speech about mobile 2.0 - advertising models, CPM and usage of the mobile internet. In Europe more than 30% of mobile phone users have used or use constantly the mobile internet. He praised iPhone and gPhone approach as a great support in the global development of mobile internet. Also the big & bold advertising of mobile internet (mainly by o2, vodafone and t-mobile) have raised the number of unique users. He outlined that a convergent solution is the key for media companies instead of stand-alone solutions for mobile and / or internet.

In addition to the existing 350 vicinia users, you have now the unique
opportunity to become a member & tester of the youmato alpha release.

Just go to youmato and enter your email address.
150 out of all applications will be selected within 4-6 weeks for the
exclusive alpha test.

The limited alpha membership will include some nice gimmicks and a
outstanding platform about people, party, places. You can help us sharping
the product.

Be a part of it: apply on youmato

Tags: youmato, vicinia, lifestyle, web20, social, network, places, party, community, people, nightlife, MoMB, deutsche-startups

youmato is to be the first real global but also true local web 2.0 community platform aligning the three important Ps in live such as people, parties and places.
Speeding up time to market youmato recently aquired vicinia (www.vicinia.de) aiming to hit the markets as soon as possible.

youmato is all about ease of use, best of breed usability, a bag of new functionalities and of course mobile convergence.
Uploading and/or importing new contents will extremly easy to be managed.

Having closed a content deal with a site called future4, the team already started uploading available top content into youmato´s content repositories.
Hence the closed alpha phase invitations will be sent out in due course. Followed by a closed beta end of 2007.

youmato intially will become available across Europe to be expanded into Asia, the US and Australia.
Targeting families, friends, jet–setters and back packers witihn an age bracket from 18 to 50+ , youmato will connect/ reconnect people across continents providing top locations, parties and places to be.

Where does the name “youmato” come from?

“Mato” is the name of the mark used at the japanese art of archery called Kyūdō (弓道:きゅうどう) meaning the way of the bow.
The different rings within the mark, which is youmato´s logo representing “you” (in the center) “me” (around you) and “the others” (in the outer-ring).
The logo as such is seen by the youmato team as an analogy for the entire social network Web 2.0 experience.

After users have learned how to use social networks, they will move to youmato targeting their friends and contacts as a kind of natural life style evolution.

coverages and listings in English:
[MoMB] Museum of modern Betas

coverages and listings in German:
[Deutsche-Startups.de] http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2007/09/05/aus-vicinia-wird-youmato/

Tags: youmato, vicinia, lifestyle, web20, social, network, community, nightlife, MoMB, deutsche-startups