Article about mobilblogg.nu

Our Swedish site mobilblogg.nu is mentioned in a monthly magazine for subscribers to Ny Teknik (New technology) and Affärsvärlden (business world).

They interview me, a PR consultant -Hans Kullin- and two of our users (mobilblogg.net/fubbick & mobilblogg.net/padde)

But most of all they write about moblogging in general - which I think is most important -There are too many not moblogging in this world :-(

But they didn't mention the English version, at all. Maybe just as good, since the magazine is distributed in Swedish only.

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Moblogging with blogger

Looks promising, I'm waiting to see when European carriers will be covered

Carriers currently supported by Blogger Mobile are Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T/Cingular

I must say I have only heard about half of them, they are not here in Europe. And we have none of their customers at mobilblogg.net.

If you are a user of one of these carriers, please send us a test moblog (MMS) at mobilblogg.net. As on all/most moblog services, its for free (well, your phonecompany will charge you for the MMS but we will not charge you anything)

Mhmm... I wonder if we support T-Mobile?

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Worlds first moblogger

Extreme times demands extreme solutions. A Dane living in a tree- protesting against the construction of a highway, created the worlds first moblog in may 2000.

It was SMS to web, and NOBODY, was interested (he tried media, he tried phone companies). Regardless of the lack of attention he received back then, he definitely has a place in the Mobloggers Hall of Fame. May your name live forever Tom Paamand!

He did not win the fight over the motorway. It's up and empty (It was built in areas not so populated in Nothern Jutland).

Update: Hmm been thinking some more.. isn't this moblogging in a nutshell? First Invented by a Danish Treehugger, and not as you would expect, by some researchteam of deep coders at Sony Ericsson or Vodafone?

Via Moblognation

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Mobile podcasting - mobcasting

So far mobliblogg.net is for pics and movieclips.

Next feature will be mobcasting. The user scenario is this:

Instead of taking a picture/record a film with the phone an audioclip is recorded with the phone. An MMS is created and text can be added.

When sent, the sound will be posted with some type of icon showing readers that it is a soundfile. It can also be subscribed to with RSS. The clip is converted to MP3 regardles ogf how it was recorded.

The limitations, as far as I can see, is on the lenght/size of the file. A MMS has it's limitations.

Therefore - e mail will still be an option for posting to the moblog.

What do you think? What is on your wish list for a mobcasting solution?

Tag mobcasting
Tag mobile podcasting

Moblogging with Opera

Quietly launched in September to Opera browser users, the My Opera Community site is attracting an average of 1,000 new members per day, the browser developer has said.

MMS is apparently the only option to post to your moblog.

I have used Opera for surfing on my SE P900 for some time now. But this I didn't know.

Growing with a thousand users a day, most users from Asia and Europe, this will be interesting to follow.

Full article
See for yourself at Opera
Via digg

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Jenny Jet moblogs

A new mobile service called Jenny Jet fuses blogging and text messaging to create an interactive sci-fi adventure.

Hmm.. good thing.. but postings about UFO sightings with SMS? Why no pictures? I'm sure it can be fun anyway, and who knows, if the game is successful new features such as pictureblogging from phone might be added.

( and while waiting, enjoy the fun at Jenny Jet, and post your UFO pictures at mobilblogg.net :-)

Read Press release and join?

Tag mobile games

Movlog used by TV

Now a movieclip taken by mobilephone made the headlines in Sweden. A tragic traffic accident was filmed by a bypassers phone, and later appeared on the TV News at TV4 and on their website.

I have no direct link to the movieclip, sorry..

Moblogers deliver breaking news

Blogs and moblogs - blog images and text sent from a mobile phone - provided the first coverage of the event. And the public rather than journalists generated much of the content.

It has ben said before, and before that it was predicted. But it's (again) nice to see that the established media acknowledge mobloggers as a source for news.

Read full Story at The Sydney Morning Herald


Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Professional use of moblogging

Realtors could benefit tremendously from using this technology to post HOT PROPERTIES and REAL ESTATE FINDS for their prospective clients. (Update: Link is dead so I removed it)

Yes they could, but DO they? No...

I know of one Real Estate Agent who used mobile blogging, but that was for a company event limited to a few weeks. A PR campaign that was sucesesful (and we did it ;-)

It might develop to something more serious, like posting pictures and information about houses and apartments for sale on the company website.

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Article from the Guardian

Don't miss this article if you are new to moblogging.

It gives a good overview and is written by an enthusiastic moblogger (it seems she is, at least) but as always there is something I find doubtful:

"You'll need a camera phone that can email - most modern mobiles will do."

hey hey... MMS will do. You are right about that most modern mobiles will let you send e mails, but at least MY experience is that people cant be bothered configuring that e-mail account.

MMS is more or less plug and play and installed from the store. You are more than welcome to try for yourself and see if it works.

Update. The author, Katie Lee, has her own blog


Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Moblog covering mobile marketing

A brilliant idea. I havent yet contributed

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Moblogging as 3G's killer app!

South China Morning Post has a good article about how content creation and moblogging could be the killer app for 3G.

From the article:
One problem the author sees for mobile blogging is one many living outside the US will have faced. While the major blog hosting providers are global in reach , often their mobile services or the capability to mob-log is limited to the US mobile carriers' networks, meaning it is not possible to use your UK network - for example - to post to your blog.

Hm.. Why not? What did I miss? Isn't there any other (mo)blogservices than the American ones?... (If you are not sure let me say: YES there is)

And what does "global in reach" mean- a French, or Swedish blogservice supporting local networks is not global in reach?

PS-We are quite ambitious at Mobilblogg.net and so far made it work with all networks we encountered, including 3G carriers.

Via Information Overlord
Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Moblog from Iraq

I received a mail regarding an earlier post about soldiers moblogging from Iraq.
Here's Sgt Satteerlee and Sgt. Griffs's moblog Better updated than the link I had in my post.

Thx for the tip!

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

Paris Mobile video

A cameraphone was used for filming a Paris riots incident. The movie is posted here.

Who posted this first? Where? Who recorded?
Some answers (but not many) in english here, and in french here

What is known (and interesting for this blog) is that it is filmed with a mobilephone.

Categories: moblogging
Categories: paris
Categories: riots

Celebrity Moblog from Norway

At mobilblogg.no the Norwegian TV2 has recruited some celebreties to moblog.

Here is for example Miss Norway's moblog

Category: moblogging
Category: mobile blogging

More On Paris Riots

The debate about censorded (mo)blogs at Skyblog (french radiostation hosting blogs) goes on. They where shut down because they supposedly coordinated the French riots

At Joi Itos Blog parts of Thomas Crampton articel at Herald tribune is posted and got several comments

There is no way in which the police can keep track of all all bloggers. So what I dont get is this:

There are plenty of blogservices on the web, so when they found "suspicious" bloggers at Skyblog, why not monitor them instead of shutting them down, and making them move on and blog somewhere else?

The strategy with censorship is bound to fail. The size of the bloggosphere makes it impossible. I think there were/are plenty of blogs not discovered by the french police. Skyblog gets the blame/fame here because it's a small confined communityblog hosted by a radiostation with commercial interests who do not want bad PR.

An independent moblog created and hosted by its own blogger(s) could not be shut down so easily.

Another strategy than censorship is needed for "the next time".


Categories: moblogging
Categories: paris
Categories: riots

Not Nice or No Price?

Found this article where Moblog is compared to MSN Spaces.

Moblog wins this comparison, but MSN is chosen because it's for free.

Im Happy mobilblogg.net is closer to Moblog in its overall functionality (anonymous comments etc) and has the same pricing model as MSN (for free!)

I wrote a comment, lets see if we get any blogging from there ;-)

BTW, it feels a bit lika spamming- writing comments like that-, but I see no other way to spread the word about mobilblogg.net

Categories: moblogging
Tag mobile blogging

Milbloggers moblogging from Iraq

"WHO would have believed that the tiny, ubiquitous cellular phone would become one of the greatest enemies of the mighty US Defence Department?
Well, it has."
Quote from StockPhotoTalk

Talking about censored moblogs (see yesterdays post) - remember how Abu Ghraib got "famous"? Heard any talkning about Milblogging... and censorships?

Here are some good websites about moblogging from Iraq.

At textamerica some mobloggers from Iraq (american) can be found.

Yafro has even more -but some of them look, well.. maybe censored?
( VIA StockPhotoTalk)

Does anyone know of Iraqis doing the same?

I know some iraqi textbloggers that got famous before and during the invasion, Pax Salam being one of them. I wonder if he moved on to moblogging?

If anyone knows, i would guess it's this blogger

And as usual: What did I miss? Your favourite milmoblogger? Write a comment :-)

Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog

Moblogging the Paris riots?

Have anyone seen moblogging from France lately?

well.. there are some pics at Flickr

But compared to the London bombing it's not much, and more important for this blog:its not mobilephotos.

Write me a line at muzagga@muzagga.nu if you know some moblogsite covering the Paris Riots.

UPDATE:
the censorship police has already passed through the Parisian blogsphere. Many blogs containing live pictures of the riots were censored.



If this is true.. (but how can it be?), it might give the answer to the lack of moblogs of the french riots.

the censorship police has already passed through the Parisian blogsphere. Many blogs containing live pictures of the riots were censored.

Well. if this is the case, dont hesitate to create an account at mobilblogg.net - we wont censor moblogging from the riots.

If you already moblog somewhere else, or know of someone who is, send me a mail or post a comment.

UPDATE 2: Mobloggers at Skyblog where arrested. (Reuters)

Categories: moblogging
Categories: paris
Categories: riots

How much and how many?

Good article about the future of moblogging, and also a listing of "the big ones" and how big they are.

In full lenght here


Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog

Global Moblogging

We had a small... no a GREAT success at mobilblogg.net last week, We got our first non-european moblogger!

Since we are based in Sweden, and most users are Swedish (writing a lot in swedish, moblogging pictures of Sweden and swedish everyday life), we have been most sucessfull in Sweden and our fellow scandinavian countries.

So this was important to us ;-) Now we have a user from Egypt.


Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog

Moblog or pictureblog- you choose

The community at mobliblogg.net had some recent fights lately about what is acceptable to post. Are pictures not taken by a cameraphone ok?

I say - if its not taken by cameraphone its not a moblog, then its a pictureblog, but it's still ok.

So a picture sent by email from the PC sure still is a blogpost, but the "mo" is not there.

And still- we accept it at mobilblogg.net, which upset some users.

We want to be a moblogtool, sure, but bending the rule: "picture must be taken with cameraphone", is sometimes necessary for some of our users to express themselves the way they want.

Therefore, you might sometimes see pictures posted by some of our users that are clearly not taken by cameraphones.

That fight was a clash between users with emphasis on mobile blogging focused on the startpage, and those more interested in plain blogging focused on their own ( /username) blogpage, sometimes using their phone, sometimes not.

Interesting to note is that some users are more strict about the purpose of mobilblogg.net than the crew who created it are.


Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog

Shoot me if you can

Wow, these guys took moblogging a step in... one direction.

Hm.. maybe thats something for mobilblogg.net? And when the picture is posted a cross-hair will be added.

Hehe.. that could be a cool moblog game.

Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog

Moblog and money- who gets it?

While users seem to love the ability to post pix on the fly, the real beneficiaries will be carriers, who've been looking for ways to plump up their flat revenues-per-customer.

Whole article at business 2.0

Isnt that nice? Guys like the mobilblogg.net crew create moblogs so that:

Phone manufactures can sell more phones with better cameras.
Carriers can sell more traffic.
and Broadband companies can sell more traffic (people want to view moblogs via web browser)

You could expect the carriers to be investing, building and marketing moblogging. Instead, Nokia is ahead on this matter. And they are still left behind by the independent moblog services. (Anyone with another opinion?)

Via Bloggerwhat!

Categories: moblogging
Categories: moblog