Sony Ericsson goes moblogging with Google - bit-tech.net Forums

The_Pope · 1st Mar 2006, 13:59

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/03...google_moblog/

The_Pope · 1st Mar 2006, 14:03

Personally, I like the look of the phone, and while I might use it for photos if the camera proves to be half-decent, I'm still Web 1.0 enough to only manually send photos to people who I want to view them.

I don't see the appeal of having complete strangers comment on how cute my pet dog is etc just because I moblogged it for my relatives to see. Plus there is also the cost - until data tarrifs become *much* cheaper, I wouldn't care to be emailing 3.2MP photos

quack · 1st Mar 2006, 14:28

Nokia's been doing this with their LifeBlog software and Six Apart's TypePad service for a while now (it is possible to use Movable Type if you replace the AtomServer.pm file, I have done this with mine although I don't use it that often). The choice of phone you can get is pretty restrictive though - only 11 phones out of Nokia's entire range support LifeBlog.

I wish they (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola et al) would offer a better choice of online blog services. Any XML-RPC compliant blog should be able to used, not just TypePad or Blogger. Can't they just add in a simple drop-down menu in the software to switch between the sites or something.

Maybe the take up of moblogging would explode if it were much easier to do. Who wants to be restricted to a small selection of phones by a particular manufacturer because they just happen to support their blog service of choice?

ajack · 1st Mar 2006, 14:41

I can see this phone selling pretty well (I was wondering how long it'd take SE to start branding their camera phones with the Cybershot name); yet I can also see only a handful of people actually using it for its main purpose. I just hope the "upload to blog" button can be remapped to something a little more useful.

Nice phone though, screen is a great size and it looks great too.

Firehed · 1st Mar 2006, 18:40

wait, is that "mo-blogging" (mobile blogging?) or "mob-logging" (???)?
Quack is right, though, you need more than one option - at least if you could give it a login address and one of serveral common blogging interfaces (Wiki is telling me there are at least a dozen, but they ARE Google after all so I'd imagine that just means a couple extra minutes of work)

quack · 1st Mar 2006, 19:54

Mobile Weblogging of course

1st Mar 2006, 13:59	#1
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1st Mar 2006, 14:28	#3
quack \o/ Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,220	Nokia's been doing this with their LifeBlog software and Six Apart's TypePad service for a while now (it is possible to use Movable Type if you replace the AtomServer.pm file, I have done this with mine although I don't use it that often). The choice of phone you can get is pretty restrictive though - only 11 phones out of Nokia's entire range support LifeBlog. I wish they (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola et al) would offer a better choice of online blog services. Any XML-RPC compliant blog should be able to used, not just TypePad or Blogger. Can't they just add in a simple drop-down menu in the software to switch between the sites or something. Maybe the take up of moblogging would explode if it were much easier to do. Who wants to be restricted to a small selection of phones by a particular manufacturer because they just happen to support their blog service of choice? __________________ Denying Rights to Music lovers. Denying Rights to Movie lovers. Last edited by quack; 1st Mar 2006 at 15:06.

1st Mar 2006, 14:41	#4
ajack rox Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: /home Posts: 2,696	I can see this phone selling pretty well (I was wondering how long it'd take SE to start branding their camera phones with the Cybershot name); yet I can also see only a handful of people actually using it for its main purpose. I just hope the "upload to blog" button can be remapped to something a little more useful. Nice phone though, screen is a great size and it looks great too. __________________ ajack.org DA \| Flickr select from pants;*

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quack \o/ Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,220	Mobile Weblogging of course __________________ Denying Rights to Music lovers. Denying Rights to Movie lovers.

1st Mar 2006, 14:03	#2
The_Pope Geoff Richards Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UK Posts: 2,089	Personally, I like the look of the phone, and while I might use it for photos if the camera proves to be half-decent, I'm still Web 1.0 enough to only manually send photos to people who I want to view them. I don't see the appeal of having complete strangers comment on how cute my pet dog is etc just because I moblogged it for my relatives to see. Plus there is also the cost - until data tarrifs become much cheaper, I wouldn't care to be emailing 3.2MP photos