SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - As high-speed wireless networks become ubiquitous, portable devices will become an essential way to stay connected to friends, family, and shared experiences. Call it the "mobile you" - a personalized set of social and entertainment services that will be available anytime, anyplace.

Some of these are already starting to appear, in the form of mobile TV and streamed audio that turn phones into broadcast media receivers. Going forward, however, the most compelling mobile content may come from users themselves.

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Just as TiVo (Research) lets couch potatoes "time-shift" to watch their favorite TV shows whenever they want, mobile networks will allow users to "place-shift" as well.

Whether stored remotely on a home computer or archived on a network-accessible server or simply grabbed from the Web, personal content of all types - music, video, photos, blog posts - will be accessible everywhere.

It will also be shared, as wireless networks are harnessed to social-networking tools to enable the exchange of real-world experiences, almost in real time.

So if a college student attends a concert, he'll be able to share more than just photos and sound clips; by comparing location information against his contact list, he'll be able to find out which of his friends are also at the show. Likewise, mobile gaming will become a more social experience as network connections turn the real world into a sprawling game environment.

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