Mobile Web 2.0

In 2007, student researchers from the College of Engineering are studying the use of Web 2.0 business models in the mobile phone industry. The study will be under the supervision of Professor Joel West of the College of Business, building upon his previous research on both open source software business models and the mobile phone industry.

The study is part of a two semester (quasi-thesis) project on the emerging social networking (or social media) value network. The students are studying more than 100+ companies that are applying some form of social network (or user-generated content) business model in the mobile phone industry.

The two student researchers are

We are excited to be conducting this study on this important emerging area of the mobile phone industry, and look forward to posting preliminary results from our study later this year.

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Related Information

Information available on this site includes:

Other related information includes his prior research on the wireless industry, and mobile phone-related blog entries on his OpenITStrategies blog