| All about Moblog | | | | send images or text messages in group to their |
| A moblog or a mobile blog is nothing, but creation of | | | | friends through phones or online. MSN too has |
| blogs on the Internet through your mobile. It is | | | | considerable presence in the moblogging space. As a |
| sharing of content with your friends from your | | | | result, the number of people subscribing to moblog |
| mobile to the web. The content can be anything like | | | | sites such as Text America, Flickr, Earthcam, |
| text, photos or video. You might ask how mobile | | | | Winksite and many more are on the rise. |
| blogging is possible? It is quite easy and common | | | | Google has also been in the picture offlate to enter |
| these days among the people. Have you seen people | | | | the moblogging arena. It has recently announced a |
| taking pictures on the mobile through their mobile | | | | partnership with LG Electronics where LG phones will |
| camera and transferring it to the web? Yes! That is | | | | feature one click access to Google search service |
| what I am talking about. | | | | including moblogging. Google has also tied up with |
| This is just one of the ways mobile blogging can be | | | | other mobile phone bigwigs such as Samsung, |
| done. Other ways are sending pictures through MMS | | | | Motorola and Sony Ericsson to offer similar blog |
| to your blog or email it through the mobile. You can | | | | services. |
| also post normal text message (SMS’s) from | | | | Moblogging has not really picked up in India mainly |
| your mobile to your blog. This medium of blogging is | | | | because of 3 reasons: |
| considered to be very fast for keeping oneself | | | | 1. Low Bandwidth Problem. |
| updated with frequent changes happening around. | | | | 2. Costly GPRS connections. |
| You might ask what is the difference between | | | | 3. Handset cost. |
| regular blogging and moblog? The difference in | | | | Recently mobile handset giant Nokia has come up |
| moblog lies in sending text or pictures through your | | | | with a new application called Nokia M-blog that allows |
| mobile or pocket PC. | | | | its N-series users to post pictures directly to the |
| Japan was one of the first few countries in the world | | | | M-blog and invite friends to view directly from the |
| to develop Moblogs. Though it has been a decade | | | | multimedia device. |
| since this technology was launched in the global | | | | Reliance Communications has also introduced mobile |
| market, Mobile blogging is still in its initial stages of | | | | blogging service "Mblog" for its subscribers in |
| development today. | | | | partnership with IMImobile in October 2006. |
| Usage of Moblogs in present scenario | | | | Concluding note |
| Currently, moblogging is growing at a rapid pace | | | | The combination of mobile and blogging that moblog |
| worldwide. Hiptop Nation was the first mobile blogging | | | | provides today, certainly places mobloggers on the |
| system widely in use. Presently there are a number | | | | cutting edge of communication technology, and in the |
| of moblogging tools available in the market such as | | | | coming years this moblogging technology will certainly |
| Foneblog, Blogplanet, Kablog and Twitter to name | | | | take the market by storm. |
| some which offer free services to allow users to | | | | |