Blogger Mobile

May 7, 2005 10:54 AM

Blogger Mobile. Blogger introduces mobile-phone-to-weblog posting. Send an MMS/email message from your cellphone to the specified email address, and Go.Blogger auto-generates a new random blogspot URL hooked to your contact information. (The URL can be changed or merged with your existing weblogs when you "claim" your number on login.) More from Blogger Buzz (with jingle), Blogger Help, Bizstone, and Youngpup. What do you think of this compared to "moblogging" via Flickr?
posted by brownpau (15 comments total)

Sorry, one last link that was in my Subethaedit Notepad which I forgot to paste in: the Googleblog announcement, of course.
posted by brownpau at 10:55 AM on May 7, 2005

I think it's excellent. I can send pictures of my Pepsi Blue bottles straight from my cellphone! I couldn't Ask for more.
posted by mr.marx at 11:02 AM on May 7, 2005

The "Pepsi Blue" speed has exceeded all expectations today! Pretty amazing for a Saturday afternoon.

In my defense, this is something weblog-technology-related, from a company which a few Metafilter members used to work for. It does affect many of us closely, I think, which is why I've posted about new Blogger developments in the past. In fact, I'm surprised no one else had posted it yet, since it debuted yesterday.
posted by brownpau at 11:11 AM on May 7, 2005

now, thanks to people who really get the web, there is practically zero lagtime between a squirrel getting crushed under bus wheels and the update to roadkill.blogspot.com.
posted by quonsar at 11:12 AM on May 7, 2005

Isn't moblogging blogging done by a mob?
posted by Ayn Marx at 12:13 PM on May 7, 2005

omg thts so cool cant wait 2 read sms blogs
posted by sveskemus at 12:30 PM on May 7, 2005

no, it's logging done by a mob.
posted by emelenjr at 1:01 PM on May 7, 2005

Is it uncool to point out that something like this has been available on Livejournal for a while?
posted by Lebannen at 1:04 PM on May 7, 2005

"Is it uncool to point out that something like this has been available on Livejournal for a while?"

I was going to point out the same. This is old technology, really, and 3rd party tools have been freely offering the same kind of service for Blogger users for a long time.

G00gl3 0wNz j00!
posted by insomnia_lj at 1:50 PM on May 7, 2005

hey guys i have the internet on my phone now
posted by angry modem at 3:07 PM on May 7, 2005

(blogging done by Mo)
posted by mendel at 7:59 PM on May 7, 2005

brownpau wrote: What do you think of this compared to "moblogging" via Flickr?

I think Flickr is better because it's Flickr. I'd much rather view and/or stumble upon a Flickr user's neat photostream rather than look at some crap Blogger blog with low resolution pictures of who knows what. It all seems a little too late on Google's behalf if you ask me, too. And yeah this is yesterday's news. Does that mean that we can assume most people already know about this? Probably. I know I did.
posted by sjvilla79 at 5:43 AM on May 8, 2005

I see this FPP and all I can think is "Quick, Bloggerman! To the Bloggermobile!"

Then you cue the cheezy background music. Biff! Zonk!
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 2:23 PM on May 8, 2005

photostreams must be the new blogosphere.
posted by quonsar at 5:43 AM on May 9, 2005

Taggable AJAX folksonomies are the new photostreamospheres.
posted by brownpau at 8:07 PM on May 9, 2005