Many people think the 3 keywords of internet services are ‘Mobile’, ‘Local’, ‘SNS.’ After the strategic success of YouTube, it gives us the fact that power contents and SNS is the important factor for success. And someone said photo is the last niche for category-typed SNS. It may be right.
‘Instagram’ is very famous mobile application which enable users to share photos and follow another users. Users comment their opinion each other. It is potential to grow into the powerful SNS. And other case is ‘PicPlz.’ Its service concept is focused on location based photo-sharing. It has a critical problem why users find other users’ pictures.
Though it’s vague how to succeed gathering customer power, it could break out.
Related article : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/technology/11photo.html?_r=1&ref=technology