I feel like I’ve been hearing about the mobile Web everywhere lately. Even my most technologically inept friends browse the Internet and check their emails on the go. Just yesterday I read an article on GigaOM called “Go Mobile Young Millenials, Go Mobile,” which highlights a report on mobile Web usage for social networking purposes by those ages 8-27.

The report, researched and released by In-Stat, forecasts that by 2012 more than 229.5 million people worldwide could be using mobile social networking services.

Social networking aside, IBM estimates that by 2011 the number of mobile Web users worldwide will approach one billion, a 191 percent increase from 2006, according to a study released last week.

So what does all of this mean for entrepreneurs, web developers, and business owners?

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