Will a U.S. cellular operator offer a moblog/Weblog?
Shawn Honnick, head of business development for moblog hosting company textamerica, writes a comment in this Weblog that the user manual for Motorola’s new V400 camera phone handset contains a reference to a “send to blog” menu item. The feature is “carrier dependent” but is this a harbinger of a cellular operator offering a blog service? It certainly seems logical. The online photo albums offered by cellular operators range from abysmal to okay. It makes a lot of sense for operators to beef up products and services offered in conjunction with camera phones. Indeed, as I’ve written many times, I believe camera phones will spark a huge international business “ecosystem” because of related products and services. One moblog company for cellular operators I don’t have any inside information, but one candidate to provide the software for moblogging is Newbay Software. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Newbay develops FoneBlog, carrier-class moblog/Weblog software. Newbay has been focusing i
