Mobile Behavior: an Omnicom Group Company

Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom [ReadWriteWeb]
The development of social media, as a user-defined and generated trend, is somewhat parallel to the boom of the open-source technology. The idea behind both is more control for the people actually using them.

YouTube Experimenting With 3D Web Videos [TechCrunch]
A YouTube engineer has been playing around with the addition of 3D viewing capabilities to web videos. One video is currently available, it even has a drop down menu to define the type of 3D desired.

Why Japan’s Smartphones Haven’t Gone Global [NYTimes]
While we've exported lots of cool things from Japanese culture--from sushi to Hello Kitty--their cutting-edge mobile phones still don't translate. The problem comes from the devices actually being too advanced for foreign markets, many features are thus rendered useless or simply not adapted to what users expect in places like the US.

The App Market Will Be As Big As The Internet In 2020 [The Business Insider]
By 2020, there will be approximately 10 million mobile apps across all platforms and manufacturers. That number will make the app industry as big as the rest of Internet.

Social Networking: Everyone is Doing it, All the Time [Mashable]
Social networking is the number one online activity amongst all age groups in the U.K., a comScore study shows. The second activity is instant messaging.

The Most Engaged Brands On The Web [TechCrunch]
Starbucks, Dell and eBay topped a list of  the 100 brands that are most active on social networking sites.

Mobile Internet--the Final Frontier for Game Vendors [CNET News]
As online and mobile overtakes traditional console gaming, Nintendo and others may need to break down their walled gardens and figure out how to converge their games with mobile devices and cellphones. The time will come when people won't shell out for both a DSi, Wii or XBox and a mobile phone.

World Poor Spell $7.9 Billion in Mobile Cash [Bloomberg]
As we wrote about in SMS Money Transfers with Africa's M-Pesa, mobile is becoming the standard for money transactions in emerging nations.