Moblogging 1.0 to 2.0

Moblogging 1.0 is web centric.  Taking photos with one's cameraphone then emailing them to a blogging service (e.g., Blogger, textamerica, Typepad, Wordpress, Yahoo! 360) on the web isn't new.  Posting text and photos from mobile phones has been ongoing for 4 or 5 years.  The volume of content on textamerica, photoblog and other moblog specific services testifies to the popularity of "sharing the moment", using pics to express concepts, and the desire to post from anywhere and everywhere.

Many user services experience a tipping point that brings them into the public's consciousness.  For blogs,it was a combination of the 2004 election cycle and specifically Rathergate.  For moblogging, it was the tragedy of train bombings in London on 7/7.

Examples from London and other creative uses for moblogs.

Moblogging 1.0 is a unidirectional activity of posting from a mobile device.  One application that we'll look at has gone a long way to make moblogging 1.0 accessible and easy is Nokia's LifeBlog.

Moblogging 2.0 is multi-directional and includes sharing text, photos, audio and video from a mobile device to the web, mobile to mobile, and web to mobile.

If you are a blogger, then you are already a mobile publisher.

As mobile devices which include phones, PDAs, and even Russell Beattie's PSP are becoming common place, more powerful, and connect to various networks, the reading of your blog by mobile users a certainty.  Looking around the world especially in developing countries many will only experience blogs on mobile devices.

Here are 2 mobile centric services which are combining basic blog functionality with other services to take using mobile devices in blogging to a new level.

WINKsite enables bloggers to optimize their content for viewing on mobile devices, and adds the capability of building community around either the blog you publish or the blogs that you read.  WINKsite is notable because it has considered not only the most capable networks and devices, but the capabilities of display and communication of inexpensive entry level phones.  WINKsite also offers a community site to help new users get started, request features and interact with one another at nextvillage.com.  As one would expect, WINKsite also maintains a blog for announcements and customer interaction.

Rabble from Intercasting Corp., currently live on Verizon Wireless and launching on other carriers soon, is an example of Moblogging 2.0.  Users are able to create channels that are personal brands or focused on interests in the same way that web-based blogs can be designed to represent you (e.g., daily personal journal, professional persona), your area of interest (e.g., music, politics, faith, skateboarding, gardening, technology) or something completely unique (e.g., list of creative works).  Rabble combines user content creation, recommendations, social networking, reputation and a killer content discovery mechanism using location.  Many mobile services are very good at specific and narrow content discovery like operator portals, or massive labor intensive content discovery like search.  Rabble's location based discovery allow zooming in and out.  For example, you can sample or consume content and/or services that are within 5 miles of your current location or search within content that is 3000 miles (read that nationwide) within your current location.

Rabble posts can simulateously update your mobile based rabble channel and your web-based weblog.  This integration is currently available with Blogger and Live Journal.  Integration with other blogging platforms is in development or planned.

This is such a rich and flexible platform we'll take a look at Rabble during the session.  Also, check out the blog of Rabble's creators on the Intercasting Corp. site.  It's a great resource for learning about Moblogging 2.0 and beyond, and conversing with the company.

Comments

[Russ]

Hi Moblogher,

Could you please delete my copyrighted image from your site?

Thanks,

-Russ

[ronny]

Yes could you please delete that tiny image that probably nobody on the planet but Russ could identify. Its copyright protected don't you know LOL

[jimmy]

Don't do it MoBlogHer! Fight the establishment!!!

[matt]

Mmm... should delete it. Especially when the creator shows up and requests it. It is his image after all.

[Phil]

It's fair use, no violation of law here but if it's a big deal to Russ, I'd delete it as well.

[Stephan]

Yes, please delete his image, it really disqualifies this interesting article. What a whimp.

Steph

[Nicholas Paredes]

Fair use is approximately 150 pixels or less. I try to use images at 144 pixels square, and try to name it with the source "nytimes_image" even when I don't give a credit, which frankly I rarely do. The large images ared fair game, and if it were an established publication, not that Russ is not, you'd be getting a call from an attourney.

I follwed his link, as I subscribe to his feed. Read up on fair use, it's pretty ambiguous, though there are some established concepts. I am generally not a fan of calling people on violations unless they are really flagrant. I remember all the crap from Zeldman and Stop Design about ripping off "designs," only to have it determined that the other designs were actually more established--older.

[mobile jones]

The fair use information is interesting. Thanks for pointing out the implications.

Does anyone enjoy irony?

In the past Beattie has bragged on his site about stealing a copy of the film Sky Captain World of Tomorrow using BitTorrent. He posted an image clearly belonging to the film's distributor to introduce the post. When one of his commenters complained about his blatant disregard for copyright, Beattie flamed.

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What is wrong with you people, Don't you know that Russ was in the gifted program in grades 6 and 7 so is subject to different rules than us. Gosh the jealousy is obvious he lived in Spain too and can take pictures of shiny milk trucks from a moving car with his cellphone.

Only a gifted person would do that . So remove his property proto as its probably worth millions.

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