Mobile paparazzi website

Sunday Times has an article about Scoopt.

Category: moblogging

The market potential for moblogging

While mobilephones are getting more common, man as a social creature still is the same- we WANT to tell the world things we are proud or angry or happy about. Communication and social interaction is basic needs, as is food, sleep and love.

Cameraphones is the latest tool to be adopted by man to do this.

That said, exactly HOW people are gonna use these tools, is an open question. What will appeal to most people, is interaction with other people with similar interests. Like in any community on the web, or any social structure IRL. Something must be shared, an interest, a common experience, a common goal.

No successful community is for everybody all the time. Services providing limited scope, narrower target groups (like body builders) are likely to be more succesfull.
(of course, broader scope, like we have at moblblogg.net will still be attractive to some, shared interst is: "I wanna moblog")

All in all, there is room for multiple platforms for this. Flickr, Shozu, fotochatter, mobilblogg.net, textamerica and so on. Each with their feature, or group of users, or whatever will make them differ.

Since all this is very new to people, we lack the proper words to describe it (at least I do). What I mean, I lack a word to describe, identify and separate Flickr from Shozu, textamerica from fotochatter.

Some still argue what a moblog is. (I'm not sure fotochatter is, and they dont call themselves by that name. They describes themselves "a mobile social network for image sharing". Flickr on the other hand is a "online photo management and sharing application" but still ends up in moblog discussions, articles and recently tests - with rightly shitty scores, because they are not a moBLOG)

Millions are moblogging even before the word is known by most people.*

That shows potential.

What will happen when moblogging gets more attention in mainstream media? We will soon know- it is happening right now, at least in Scandinavia.

*(well, to be honest, most peolpe dont know what a blog is, we tend to forget that)

Category: moblogging

Win a Samsung SGH X70 by moblogging

Do you have a moblog? Do you read Ekstra Bladet? Then register to their competition, and win a Samsung SGH X70.

"the two most good looking and exciting moblogs wins a Samsung Samsung SGH X70 mobilephone each."

Ekstrabladet is one of denmarks two tabloid papers. (Yes, its the one with the page 9 girls)

And you can always claim you read their paper online... that makes you a reader, right?

You can use any telephone, carrier and moblog publisher you want.

the competition, (in Danish)

Category: moblogging

Thumb Culture

Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society
Another book I haven't read. But would like to read, so .. well... What's holding me back?

the book is a collection of essays discussing what role the mobilephone have, and will have in the future.

One chapter is dedicated to moblogs, -'Exhibitionism or journalism?'

'Teenagers' moblog contributions - with pictures illustrating their breakfast, their journey to school, their last party, or their pets and siblings - might seem trite, but so is life'

Via sp!ked-IT

Category: moblogging
Category: mobileculture

Take better pictures - how to be a better moblogger

12 good tips on how you take better pictures with your phonecam. And remember to send them to your moblog :-)

Category: moblogging
Category: cameraphone

Fotochatter

Now this is cool! But- if this is for free, who pays for all smses sent?

Anyone knows?

Category: moblogging
Category: socialsoftware

500 mobloggers!

This weekend moblogger number 500 registered at mobilblogg.net

And since we are only working with word by mouth PR, and there now are more mouths, my guess is we will double this in same time it took us to come from 250 users to 500, which was about six months.

Category: moblogging

Category: community

How frequent you moblog depend on how long you have been moblogging

"Old" report (from 2004) about how much people moblog, how many Pics a week.

Read here (short story: You moblog more in the beginning)

I think we will have to do a survey like this on mobilblogg.net

We have alpha users blogging several pics a day, who has been doing so since they first registered.

I blog once a day, at minimum, to have a diary I can look back into in the future (using the calendar too see what I did or what filled my mind today a year ago)

The alpha users moblog their pic's for other reasons, some are like bloggers are most - wanting to write about the world, their life, whatever- other are more community oriented, using their moblogging as interaction with other mobloggers. ("nice coffemug, here is a picture of my mug")

Those who fall out first are the "theme bloggers", moblogging on one topic only (for example we had a commuter only blogging from train, subway and busses, writing about passenger behaviour, illustrating with cameraphone photos. He ran out of passenger stereotypes pretty fast).

They seem to be done after a while, finished telling whatever was on their mind.

Category: moblogging

Mobhappy predictions

Mobhappy has some predictions for 2006. Most of them are interesting and prediction number 16 is great. Within the prediction is also room for a good discussion about MMS vs SMS.

Go read:
"Mobile blogging and photoblogging will grow, filling in a personal media-sharing gap intended for MMS."

Category: moblogging
Category: 2006

Where did moblogging go?

Good article at Warrenellis.com

Sometimes sounding a bit like I did a few post ago, inspired by Joi Ito.. asking - what happened to moblogging after 2003? Did it dissapear in the web 2.0 hype?

My prediction is the same as the last time "moblogging is being adopted by the masses". So its not cool enough to hype. But it is more "powerful" since more and more use it.

To use a little fantasy metaphor:
"Moblogging is being adopted by the hordes of Mordor (pr0n), and the lazy halflings of the shire (your dad), so wizards, elves and the dwarf craftsemen (alphageeks) create new artifacts (all things web2.0).
-Who wants to deal with simple every day magic?"

-Well guess what?, the moblogging hordes are massing at different servers, such as mobilblogg.net's.

Category: moblogging
Category: web20

Best moblog community in Sweden

A Swedish magazine called Mobil declares Mobilblog.net as "clearly the best moblogservice in Sweden". We got 8/10, which was the same as Flickr. Textamerica won the test, and got nine out of ten.

We are honored and promise to keep up developing new features through 2006. Watch out textamerica, mobilblog.net is coming! ;-)

Category: moblogging
Category: moblog

Moblog picture nominated as best picture of the year

Well.. sorry for the few updates recently. Chistmas and all you know, been moblogging instead.

The big news for today is that TIME magazine nominated Adam Stacey's picture from the London bombings as one of the best photos of the year!

The picture was originally posted here

According to this article,, there should be some disagreement about the rights to the pictures. A kind of debate that we might expect to see more of, now when more and more people have cameraphones and know how to moblog.

Via Picturephoning

Category: moblogging
Category: Citizen journalism