HAGEN, Germany, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org) has appointed Peperoni Software GmbH as a Committee Member for the upcoming workshop on the future of social networking in January 2009.

Back in 2001 already, the German Peperoni Software GmbH (http://www.peperoni.de) from Hagen, has developed a platform for the mobile and fixed-line internet for mobile social networking named http://www.peperonity.com making them the formal inventors of mobile site building. Peperoni will join a total of approximately 12 committee members that will have the task to evaluate the most pressuring issues that social networking faces in a converging world.

CEO Maciej Kuszpa is very glad about this election: We are very proud about being appointed as a jury member. This approves our current and previous work. Marcus Ladwig, COO of Peperoni GmbH adds, We are delighted to see the most important organisation in the web realize the difference in challenges that mobile and web-based audiences are facing. Mobile Social Networking is a mass market phenomenon and the workshop will definitely benefit from our experience we started to gather back in 2000 already.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) who has invited the most important players from the online and mobile social networking space is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Peperoni's community has one of the largest mobile-focused social networks under the brand name http://www.peperonity.com with approximately 10 million unique users and half a billion page impressions per month. They have a long track record from on-portal cooperation's with O2 (UK) and T-Mobile and now foster mass-market availability and penetration for their off-portal mobile community services by entering alliances and listening even more closely to their audiences.

The high level goal of the W3C workshop (http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/cfp.html) is to bring together the world experts on social networking design, management and operation in a neutral and objective environment where the social networking history to date can be examined and discussed, the risks and opportunities analyzed and the state of affairs accurately portrayed. The workshop title is W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking.

For further information please contact: Maximilian Stollbrock, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / Public Relations, E-Mail stollbrock@peperoni.de , Phone +49-2331-484737-55, Fax +49-2331-484737-70. Peperoni Mobile Internet Software GmbH, Leibnizstr. 1, 58097 Hagen, Germany.

For further information please contact: Maximilian Stollbrock, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / Public Relations, E-Mail stollbrock@peperoni.de , Phone +49-2331-484737-55, Fax +49-2331-484737-70.