Categorization of moblogs
Was interviewed by a reporter here in Sweden writing an article about moblogging.
He asked "How many moblogs are there" which is an interesting question.
To answer that we need to define - what is a moblog?
Is it
1-A persons, or group of persons, blog, updated via mobile phone? (then, it's impossible to count how many there are)
or
2- is it a publishing platform, a moblog tool, where you can create a moblog? (like http://www.mobilblogg.net/ ). Lets call them "Moblog Publishers"
That was what the question was about (I asked him)- how many moblog publishers are there?
Well -there are three types of moblog publishers:
-the clean mobloggers, (lots of community functions, example: textamerica, )
-the blogtools with support for mobile publishing (lots of blogging functionality, RSS, Ping, rackback etc- example: blogger).
-and the third which is picturesharing, . Not intended for blogging but working fine from cellphones. (lots of tagging and search, example: Flickr)
I think the reporter meant category one moblogging with his question, the "clean mobloggers".
And how many textamericalike moblogtools are there?
My guess is hundreds, but not thousands... I'm trying to keep track of them but I find new ones every day. So my guess will be about 150-200. The big ones being in English or Japanese. Smaller ones in Polish, Finnish, Swedish and so on. (just try every domain for the word moblog, http://www.moblog.pl/ http://www.moblog.nl and so on :-).
But are they blogs or are they communitys, social softwares? For most cases I'd like to answer: both, but leaning on communitys. Some lay emphasis on pictures, some on blogging. Some allow private password protected pictures and and most allows personal pages and ablums, but some don't.
Some, like mobilblogg.net, tries to do everything.
NOTE: Some Moblogs are small and closed. Open for public to view, but offers no way to publish.
I focus on the bigger ones that wants you to register and create your own moblog.
Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog
He asked "How many moblogs are there" which is an interesting question.
To answer that we need to define - what is a moblog?
Is it
1-A persons, or group of persons, blog, updated via mobile phone? (then, it's impossible to count how many there are)
or
2- is it a publishing platform, a moblog tool, where you can create a moblog? (like http://www.mobilblogg.net/ ). Lets call them "Moblog Publishers"
That was what the question was about (I asked him)- how many moblog publishers are there?
Well -there are three types of moblog publishers:
-the clean mobloggers, (lots of community functions, example: textamerica, )
-the blogtools with support for mobile publishing (lots of blogging functionality, RSS, Ping, rackback etc- example: blogger).
-and the third which is picturesharing, . Not intended for blogging but working fine from cellphones. (lots of tagging and search, example: Flickr)
I think the reporter meant category one moblogging with his question, the "clean mobloggers".
And how many textamericalike moblogtools are there?
My guess is hundreds, but not thousands... I'm trying to keep track of them but I find new ones every day. So my guess will be about 150-200. The big ones being in English or Japanese. Smaller ones in Polish, Finnish, Swedish and so on. (just try every domain for the word moblog, http://www.moblog.pl/ http://www.moblog.nl and so on :-).
But are they blogs or are they communitys, social softwares? For most cases I'd like to answer: both, but leaning on communitys. Some lay emphasis on pictures, some on blogging. Some allow private password protected pictures and and most allows personal pages and ablums, but some don't.
Some, like mobilblogg.net, tries to do everything.
NOTE: Some Moblogs are small and closed. Open for public to view, but offers no way to publish.
I focus on the bigger ones that wants you to register and create your own moblog.
Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog
posted by Muzagga at 4:07 AM
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