It has rolled out mobile sign-on features, mobile versions of its Credits virtual currency, and most recently Open Graph hooks that mobile app developers have been taking full advantage of (witness the turgid rise of Socialcam and Viddy for evidence of those features being exploited).
Recently, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have signed on, as well — but the campaign is still most closely associated with its creator.
Do singles really want to meet someone within moments of signing on to their mobile phones?
Already, Boost Mobile has signed on for Cellmania's system.
AT&T has allowed Apple unusual control over the network in the iPhone, and Sprint and T-Mobile have signed on to the Android development platform of the Open Handset Alliance.
Called Facebook Connect For Mobile Web, it will let any mobile site accept Facebook IDs for sign-on, grab social data from Facebook with permission from the user, publish items into their Facebook stream, and more.
Revar et al. describe the usefulness of single sign-on in a mobile cloud computing environment [36].
The existing services, which allow developers to quickly set up a scalable website and the backend tools they need to host their mobile apps (databases, push notifications, single sign-on, etc)., won't get any major new features.
But for the technology to work with any scale, mobile carriers have to sign on.
Ball erected a station house on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad – the sign on which would alternate between "Meridian" and "Sowashee" each day.
One developer we spoke to noted that mobile is currently where Spotify has many of its most active users (and certainly the more profitable, considering that all mobile users are signed on to Spotify Premium; although in the U.S., the radio service is free on Android and iOS).
