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Nov 28 2008

Moblogging, A Beginner’s Guide

Published by issi_noho under Guides Edit This

Is this your new blogging platform?Have you ever had a sudden realisation of great truth which you wanted to share with the world but your cruel memory had forgotten what this truth was by the time you get to a computer. Well is your mobile your new blogging tool? With a mobile phone in your pocket you can upload images to flickr, blog on blogger and update your twitter all on the go! This post hopes to show you how to do all these things and which tools to use.

Blogging

Blogging from a handheld device can save you huge sums of time and improve the interest of your readers. If you can tell everyone about a killer new film you saw at the cinema right after you come out it will increase your readers interests ten fold. Giving initial thoughts can often be as useful to people as developed opinions, plus you can always add those later. Blogging from your phone is a lot easier than you would think, most platforms already have a built in e-mail to post system that lets you set up an email address that e-mails to get automatically posted. This, although useful, does not let you add custom formatting or on some devices multiple pictures so another method has to be found.If you are lucky enough to have an iPhone ot iPod Touch then blogpress is for you. It can be downloaded from iTunes app store for $9.99 or £4.99. BlogPress has support for: Blogger, BlogSpot, MSN Live Spaces, WordPress, Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, and Drupal, with support coming for more soon. It also allows you to upload images to Picasa Web, save as draft and edit and delete old posts. There is a better review here.If you don’t have an iPhone there are still other ways you can do it. CellSpin is a free Windows Mobile/PalmOS app wgich lets you add blog posts, images and videos to your favourite sites. This app is great for people eho not only blog but upload videos to YouTube as well. It works on Flickr, Blogger, MSN Spaces, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Picasa, Ebay, Wordpress, Facebook and Typepad. You can post via sms, mms or e-mail. Take a look at it here.

Uploading Images

As well as the apps above which can upload images you may just want to upload images to flickr or picasa without the extra features. Luckly there are simple and easy to use tools for this very problem.Have a flickr account? Upload easily from your camera phone by pointing your handset towards m.flickr.com. Not only can you upload images but you can also check your friends recent activity and search for pics.If you prefer to use Picasa Web from Google then point your phone to m.google.com/photos or go to this page here, enter your phone number and they will send you a link. This service allows you to upload images, create slideshows, comment on photos and search the Picasa Web community.

Twitter

Twitter can literally take over peoples lives. I know of many people that fear going anywhere without telling the world on twitter. Sending tweets and checking on your friends could not be easier, in fact twitter gives you two ways in which you can send and receive tweets. You can go here to link your mobile phone number to your twitter account, this lets you send updates via sms. It can also be set up so friend updates are sent to your phone. The second way is to go to m.twitter.com to update your status and view your friends profiles and tweets.

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