Survey. Palm Unveils iPhone Competitor, the Pre. Free video tutorials from Lee Brimelow on ... Mobile Enterprise Weblog: F O L E O. Social networking goes mobile. By CNN's Jim Boulden Adjust font size: BARCELONA, Spain (CNN) -- The technology executives and analysts here in Barcelona this week are trying to figure out how take all the content found on the Web and migrate it to your mobile device. There are a number of hurdles though. Most of what people find at Web sites is free to the user, whether it's silly videos on YouTube or news footage and stories on CNN.com. The mobile phone network operators like to charge for content. That couldn't be more different from the advertising supported model of most Web sites and the hyperlinked world of the Web.
So some of the deals announced this week are attempts to break down the walls. The second challenge is that so much of what is viewed on the Net is user generated content; videos, personal Web pages, social networking sites. This is the material that phone operators and handset makers want to offer. But all this content now has to be re-formatted for the phone.