Interesting, interesting indeed. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [liberationtech] facebook sim card Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:16:21 +0200 From: oli <oli@cryptosms.org> Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu hi there, i would be happy if anyone knows details or can point me somewhere to get to know more about the facebook sim card: http://fr.sitestat.com/gemplus/gemalto/s?tel_facebook&ns_type=pdf http://gigaom.com/mobile/facebook-sim-card-uses-sms-gemalto/ do you know of independent technical documents, academic papers or other good sources of information? fyi: this is one of the ways how facebook is getting access to new users that are using so called "simple phones", the ones without even j2me capabilites. and this user group is huge in many parts of the world. if you are interested in the general trajectory and technological set up of facebook how to reach more mobile phones, this text is really good: http://qz.com/5180/facebooks-plan-to-find-its-next-billion-users-convince-th... fb has developed solutions for all the different types of phones and uses the fast growing mobile telephony market e.g. in some african countries to lock-in users at their first contact with mobile media. thanks, oliver -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech