Reliance Mobile Blog..

Intimidating when I saw it first... it's not the first mover advantage that works.. but the BEST mover advantage!

Now am chilled.. someone's paying attention to this market!

Cheers!

Ankur

Blogging with Reliance Mobile Phones in India

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Blogging is a buzzword in India and Reliance Communications is therefore trying to cash in. They are aggressively marketing Reliance Mobile World, an SMS based application that allows customers to publish pictures, videos and text blogs on the Internet using any Reliance cell phone.

To set up a mobile blog, you need to send the text message as an SMS from the Reliance phone. If you want to publish an image or a video clip, you will have to send them an MMS message (keyword mblog) to 51234.

You'll know the primary web address of your mobile blog via an SMS that arrives when you send the first mblog SMS or MMS from the Reliance phone.

Considering the enormous reach of Reliance Communications, a large majority of people could be introduced to blogs and blogging which is a good thing but messaging rates are pretty much on the higher side - it costs Rs 5 to send an MMS from the Reliance mobile phone while SMS charges are Rs 3. (same for prepaid and postpaid)

Another problem is the file format - if you send an audio or video MMS, your friends will need the Real Player or Quicktime to view those multimedia clips on the web - there's no support for Adobe Flash which is disappointing.

If you are a Reliance customer, I would still suggest using Google Blogger or Flickr for setting up a mobile blog. They are free, more reliable and you can post pictures / text entries using any Reliance phone that can send email - no local SMS support in India yet. For videos, YouTube is a good choice since they accept mobile uploads via email.

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Twitter Downtime On the Upswing

 

 

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Twitter Downtime On the Upswing

via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on 12/20/07

Even after moving to a new data center, Twitter has been undergoing some growing pains. Royal Pingdom reports that the service has been down almost a total of six days since it began monitoring the service last February. Downtime so far in December has exceeded almost any preceding month, with nearly 11 hours of downtime, compared to 9 hours in November.

I guess everyone is trying to get onto that Tweeterboard.

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Jott doing well!

 

 

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Note To Self

via Duct Tape Marketing Blog on 6/15/07

There was a great movie years ago called Night Shift (1982). In it, Michael Keaton's character carried around a mini tape recorder to capture his brilliant business ideas. One of my favorites was "Feed Mayonnaise to Tuna Fish" - something about making better tuna sandwiches - but I digress!

I've been playing around with a new service called jott. Jott allows you to use your cell phone much like the tape recorder above, but it does some other very useful things.

Once you create an account, you can call a number and rattle off all manner of things and automatically they show up in your email inbox transcribed. So, you're sitting in the back of a cab and you get a great idea, boom, send it via your phone. I can't tell you how many times I've had an idea for a blog post when I'm out and about and this would be a great way to capture it in the moment. In fact, you could actually write posts on the fly with this service and then just cut and paste later.

Jott also allows you to create groups. If you have an entire list of people you often need to communicate with you can set the group up and then make one call to your account and everyone on the list gets a text message of whatever you speak into your phone. I can see using this with clients to send a recap of a meeting.

 

 

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Jott Integrates with More Networks from your Mobile

 

 

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Jott Integrates with More Networks from your Mobile

via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on 9/4/07

Jott, the voice-to-text service to be used with your cell phone, has added some useful new features, making good on its funding from back in May.

Its new Jott Links give you quick, integrated access to productivity and networking sites including 30 Boxes, Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, LiveJournal, Yahoo Groups, Twitter, Jaiku, and Zillow. This point of access is a good way to increase the value of its own product, by tying into existing products, and relies little on the necessity of these other companies having mobile sites. And to help manage all of your Jott messages, which can be sent to yourself, to another individual, or to a group, there are now Jott Folders, which are pre-determined options for expenses, personal, or work.

Jott now claims that its service is three times faster than sending a text message or an email from your cell phone, and a few other features, such as a reminder Jott and personalized signature options, have been included as well. Other recent developments in the voice-to-text realm include Vlingo and Ribbit.

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Jaiku geniuses acquired by Google

 

 

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Jaiku geniuses acquired by Google

via SMS Text News by Ewan on 10/9/07

Ah! Get in! Fantastic!

When I met Jyri earlier this year, I asked him when he was selling out I didn't think any of the key players, Google, Yahoo or the like, could ignore Jaiku for long.

Obviously he couldn't comment and he gracefully refused an answer with a polite smile. I'm delighted for the team.

Interestingly, I wonder what's next for Jaiku ... and Google. Geez. The things they could do.

All verrrrry exciting.

Link: Jaiku | Google Q&A

Jaiku is joining Google. While it's too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.

But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&A about the acquisition.

Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders

 

 

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Why didn't Google buy Twitter?

 

 

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Why didn't Google buy Twitter?

via SMS Text News by Ewan on 10/9/07

I saw this on Mashable — Why didn't Google acquire Twitter instead of Jaiku?

Link: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

This is somewhat surprising news considering the perceived dominance of Twitter in the so-called "lifestreaming" space. Additionally, Twitter is co-founded by Evan Williams, who was the creator of Blogger, which was previously acquired by Google. In a world where price is no object for Google, it's interesting that they would opt for Jaiku and not Twitter.

Well, they're two different animals.

Twitter = hugely annoying, not the concept itsef, but the medium. I just couldn't get into having to write a text message every time I wanted to do an update. It just felt like such a waste; a repetitive waste, particularly with our idiot mobile handset design.

Go to menu
Go to messaging
Wait for the handset to open the messaging application
Open new message window
Address it
Write the Twitter message
Send the message... wait for it to ...send...send.... gone! Sent!

What a palava.

I recognise there are many other ways of Twittering — however I developed serious 'isshooos' with the reliance on the medium of text.

So when Jaiku came out with an application ON the handset.. that was it for me. The current beta iterations are just looking fantastic — and, what's more, I know they can and will do more.

The fact Google snapped them up points to many interesting possibilities for the way ahead. Or maybe not. Maybe they'll do nothing with them. Or maybe they'll knock them together with Dodgeball (another great concept but annoyingly reliant on the medium of text)? Or more...

(Oh, and maybe Twitter weren't for sale..)

 

 

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