More evidence this week of the link between a strong social engagement strategy and device use. In the Business Insider they've some interesting data points on the impact of social on mobile use patterns.

Users of social media mobile apps spend an average of 9 hours a month (about 18 minutes daily) on the services, according to recent Nielsen data from March 2013. That monthly time-spend climbed by about 13% in eight months.
By comparison, desktop and laptop PC users of social media spend about 6 to 7 hours a month on social networks. That time-spend hasn’t budged for about two years.
Finally, users spend a little over 1 hour a month visiting social media sites on the mobile Web (HTML5 pages in their mobile browser, rather than stand-alone “native apps” written specifically for Android and iOS phones).

Making sure you have a clear and focused mobile strategy is paramount and the Viafo Services Gateway ensures that you maximize this way to engage with your clients.

We've been working on making a piece of our technology available to everybody and today we're ready to go live with the early Alpha of our API Monitoring product.

Current oAuth status for major web services

One of the challenges we've faced is knowing when the 3rd party services we support breaks or changes in such a way that it would break our product, or a client's application. We also wanted to know what latency levels the different social networks operate at. As we didn't find what we were looking for, we went off and built it.

Currently, we're showing you the averages for the last week. But if you're interested in having more access and the ability to look at the performance of other APIs, then drop us a line at info@viafo.com to register your interest.

The current version is monitoring a number of common web APIs, Social Networks and some carrier APIs. Over the next few weeks we'll be adding more, and will be shortly launching a premium version.

Take a look at http://viatests.appspot.com.