MocoSpace.com should keep looking over its shoulder because the competition from safer alternatives MySpace, Facebook, and European startup ZYB just got stiffer. MocoSpace.com is easy to use, though how many people will adopt MocoSpace over the range of other possible services is open to question. It says 76 million people have mobile in the US 6.7 percent of them use mobile chat or dating applications, according to Telephia and M:Metrics, respectively. MocoSpace users can create profiles, upload and share pictures, www.mocospace.com chat, IM, blog and otherwise communicate from within the application. According to a recent report from Openwave on the North American mobile social network market, MocoSpace members spend an average 6.05 minutes per session - much longer than they spend with social network leaders MySpace and Facebook.
MocoSpace is targeting a variety of users and also companies looking for ways to advertise. MocoSpace is a mobile social network. When Arrington says, ?That might just give some runway to new startups focused solely on mobile,? MocoSpace.com uses browser detection to deliver either a PC formatted html page or a WAP2 (xhtml-mp) or WAP1 (wml) one depending on your browser’s capabilities. The browser detection seems reasonably good although I got the PC version on Opera Mini which was only marginally usable.