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Blog From Your Cellphone?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Dupe by dphoenix · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/203421 3&tid=95 Ya know, it's getting ridiculous nowadays.

  2. T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger Hiptop by zemote · · 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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  3. Who was first? by stuartcw · · 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.

  4. Soon it will all be much easier. by juuri · · 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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  5. Re:This is terrible by Afrosheen · · 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?!

  6. It's a ... by haggar · · Score: 4, Informative

    DUPE!

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