Blog From Your Cellphone?

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 23, 2003 @08:43PM from the gag dept.

seldo writes "The BBC has an article up about blogging from your mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but the interesting part is the host of links to interesting new (free) software that lets you do it, including: Manywhere Moblogger (Java), WAPBlog (Perl), and KABLOG (J2ME mobile Java, runs on devices like Palms, the Treo and Blackberries). All three of these interface to also-free server side tech which you need to set up yourself (KABLOG interfaces to the popular MovableType server and compatibles). The article also mentions the proprietary foneblog service which seems very easy to use, but it is software intended to be run by cellphone companies for their users."

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Dupe by dphoenix · 2003-02-23 21:03 · Score: 4, Informative

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/203421 3&tid=95 Ya know, it's getting ridiculous nowadays.
T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger Hiptop by zemote · 2003-02-23 21:05 · Score: 5, Informative

The T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger hiptop is the perfect device for this type of blogging. There is already a growing community of these type's of Hiploggers over at http://www.hiptop.com/hiplog/ The nice thing about the Danger Hiptop is the querty keyboard, makes for a better mobile web experience. I bought my wife one of these and it is great.
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Who was first? by stuartcw · 2003-02-23 21:12 · Score: 5, Informative

Right now on Joi Ito's Chronology of Moblogging I am listed as the first person to post to their blog (in my case Livejournal) from their email enabled phone on January 4, 2001 at 4:16pm. I wrote a Python script over that New Year holiday that I hooked up to Qmail and used Livejournal's HTTP API to post the message. I'm sure that I wasn't the first person to do it as many people were discussing this around that time but I may possibly have been since at that time email enabled phones were not common outside Japan, where I live.
I'd love to hear from anyone who can show that they posted from their phone using email before then so we can set history straight.
On February 5th I added to graphic to help me remember that these were posted from the phone.
Soon it will all be much easier. by juuri · 2003-02-23 21:39 · Score: 4, Informative

With Opera out for Symbian 6 devices you can use a real web browser to read/post to blogs if you desire. More importantly there are active working ports of Putty (ssh) as well, so now just go finagle a P800 and enjoy the net in your hand.

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Re:This is terrible by Afrosheen · 2003-02-23 23:15 · Score: 4, Informative

He/she is probably American. Most of the cellphone companies suck here and the phones are probably models from 2 years ago. If you get a free phone when you sign up for service, chances are the phone sucks and is at least 1 generation behind.

Why do americans get the rat's ass of phones when Japan has realtime video phones?!
Re:This is terrible by Nexx · 2003-02-23 23:51 · Score: 3, Informative

Because the typical American won't pay for phones, while the typical Japanese will pay upwards of $300-$400USD for a phone.

Mind you, the former are strapped to an annual contract, while the latter aren't, but that's just semantics.

Oh, and the reason why the Japanese are willing to pay that much for a mobile? Have you priced landlines in Japan lately? You must first *buy* the *right* to get a phone, which is at least double that of the mobile. It used to be that the rights purchase paid for, among other things, pulling the physical line to the place. Now, all it pays for is some technician activating a port from a remote console.

Freaking third-rate country.
It's a ... by haggar · 2003-02-24 00:07 · Score: 4, Informative

DUPE!

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