Mobile links, bits and bobs

Last week was a busy busy week so there was little time for posting. However, here’s a quick roundup of some stuff I noticed in our mobile utopia.

The Yahoo Advanced Products Group have launched Mixd – a social “experiment” targeted at the US college demographic. The service enables users to send a text to multiple people and to share photos, arrange a party etc. Similar to 3Jam, it enables reply-to-all on text-messaging facilitating a multi-party chat conversation. Zingku has something similar currently in beta. Zemble also.

Shortly following a post I wrote about mobilizing YouTube content, the provider TinyTube I mentioned was asked to remove access to YouTube content. I thought Googles mantra was “don’t be evil”?

The W3C initiative is aggregating a number of mobile focused blogs at Planet Mobile Web.

CScout has an article here on the trend that Social Network sites are going mobile. The article covers YouTube, MySpace, Hookt and AirG.

And finally, the Economist did a great article on what the future of the mobile phone may look like in their Quarterly Technology Review. Go here

Mobile YouTube - TinyTube

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about a Verizon deal with YouTube to distribute videos via wireless and TV networks. The plan is to initially provide viewing access to the top 50/100 clips and then follow this up with the ability to post a clip from your mobile.

TinyTube are already providing the first part of this - a mobile site where you can download and view the latest featured clips on YouTube.

the YouTube deal....what really happened?

Mark Cuban sheds light on what may have really happened at YouTube in the run-up to G-day.

YouTube Backlash?

Following the purchase, will the users of YouTube remain happy, or will the customer base use the site as a platform for organising a revolution? After all, it was the users efforts and creativity that made the content, which attracted the audience, which in turn attracted the advertisers. Easy come, easy go?

CLESH - mobile video

The folks at Forbidden Technologies have launched CLESH (Clip, Load, Edit Share) a web-based application that enables you to upload video clips from your PC or mobile phone, then edit them (add music, delete frames, add library footage/sounds) etc. Once you're done, you can then share the finished showreel via email, blog, bluetooth etc. Very neat, and a key ingredient for growing the user generated content revolution. Could evolve (or be incorporated) in to services like Grouper and YouTube.

YouTube - P2P video sharing

YouTube does for videos, what Flickr did to Photos. Great site...


25/10 - also Grouper
7/11 - YouTube raises $3.5m from Sequoia
20/01 - also Revver