By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Social networking site Bebo has appointed Sean Kane as it’s “Global Head of Mobile”, as the site looks to grow it’s 45mn members. Bebo recently linked up with UK Operators including Orange, T-Mobile, and O2 Ireland – and has got Kane on board to develop compelling mobile experiences
Kane comes from a social networking platform provider called Intercasting Corporation, which Bebo already had close ties with. He also has had other heavyweight appointments in Vivendi and MP3.com previously.
Mobile is key play now for many of the social networking providers, as they drive to make access ubiquitous to their platforms – let’s see what cool stuff Bebo comes up wiith now!
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career
when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the
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He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
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