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This article was written on September 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

MySpace is looking to cater to mobile phone users with their new ad-supported mobile version of the social network which launched today at mobile.myspace.com.  It’ll be free for users and will work on all U.S. carriers.  MySpace has become such a phenomenon and ranks as one of the most visited sites globally, it makes sense for News Corp. to develop a mobile version. Besides providing a mobile experience for their users, another main goal that News Corp is trying to accomplish with this move is to attract advertising for mobile web sites.

As mentioned, the mobile version of MySpace will be ad-supported.  Ads will include banner ads as well as sponsorships, for now anyway’s.  In the future though, local advertising will be implemented using GPS data sent by the phones. They’ll also use targeted advertising based upon the information a user has on their page and in their blogs.

Those using a mobile phone to access MySpace will be able to do the following:

• Send and receive messages
• Receive friend requests
• Add friends
• Comment on photos
• Post bulletins
• Search for friends
• Update blogs

Assuming MySpace mobile goes over well, News Corp. intends on adding mobile versions of other sites like Fox Sports and Photobucket. A mobile version of Photobucket would be awesome because users would be able to upload photos right from their camera phones which means less hassle!

In the future , I think we’ll see more and more sites developing a mobile version as the quality of a mobile Internet experience increases and people are more inclined to use it.

Source: StarNewsOnline.com

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This article was written on January 22, 2008 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

These days Internet access is available almost anywhere you go. Even if you refuse to pay for wireless Internet through your cellphone carrier, there are normally plenty of hotspots around town for you to stop in on. Once you get connected you can whip out a mobile device, such as a Pocket PC or cellphone, and blog away.

More and more devices are giving users access to full keyboards, but the problem that a lot of people face are the poorly optimized administration screens. Often times they can take a day just to load, and then trying to navigate the page is almost a heroic event in itself.

And there is good reason that you would want to blog from a mobile device. Maybe you just snapped a photo that you want to share, or maybe you want to manage your posts. We’re going to show you some of the tools you need to do that on WordPress, Blogger, and Movable Type.

Tip: iPhone & iPod Touch owners running WordPress or Movable Type will love what you’re about to see, but there’s stuff for all types of mobile devices here.

–WordPress–

One way you can blog with WordPress is via email. In the end you’ll end up sending off an email to an address that you specify. The subject line will be used as the title, the body will be the content of the post, and any attachments (images, files, etc…) will be included at the end of the post.

Alternatively there is an excellent mobile web interface available via the WPhone plugin. It has an uber sweet version available for the iPhone or iPod Touch, but it also includes two lighter versions that will even work well on less equipped devices. It will automatically detect what your browser is capable of, and display the version accordingly. All you have to do is check the “Use mobile admin interface” box when logging in.

Here are some various screenshots from the three different interfaces:

iPhone / iPod Touch:

Lite Version (no JavaScript):

Lite Version (no CSS & no JavaScript):

–Blogger–

The good news is that Blogger has two official options available for mobile blogging, but the bad news is that Blogger doesn’t have a plugin system so you can have any nifty third-party tools. Email is what I believe to be the best way for posting to Blogger from a mobile device. Instructions can be found here, but it generally works the same way as the WordPress email system mentioned above.

All you have to do is setup an email address to use, and then you’re good to go. The subject will become the title, the body will be the post content, and any image attachments will be thrown on the end of the post. One thing that they do note is that you should designate the end point of your post with a #end to ensure that Blogger recognizes when the content ends. This is because some email programs or antivirus apps will append a signature onto the end of outgoing emails, and doing this tells Blogger to ignore everything after the end marker.

There is also what Google considers to be a Blogger Mobile located at go.blogger.com. Initially I thought it might be a mobile interface to blog from, but instead it works similarly to their email system. All you do is send an email or MMS to go@blogger.com and they immediately setup a new blog for you with the message/images you sent. In return they’ll send a message back to you with a claim code which can be used to login to your new blog later on, or merge that post with your existing blog. This is a great solution if you just want to do a quick post with as little work as possible.

–Movable Type–

I was a little surprised to see that Movable Type doesn’t have an email system in place so that users can email posts to be published onto their blog. Someone did come up with a basic Perl script to get it done, but it’s not really something a novice user would be able to figure out.

The only mobile interface that I could find for Movable Type only works with the iPhone and iPod Touch specifically. It’s in the form of a plugin, and once installed you’ll be able to manage all of the different areas of your blog. Just take a look at how nice the interface is:

Now we know that we didn’t cover all of the major platforms, but we tried to take on the most popular ones. If you’ve got some other tools that you use to blog on-the-go be sure to drop them off in the comments below.

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Adobe reveals Creative Cloud, links Touch Apps to Creative Suite with 20GB storage originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Smartphone obsessives in Canada will be getting their hands on some snowy Galaxy S II goodness sooner rather than later. Yes, Samsung’s dual-core bestseller has been leaked with an October 7th launch date on Bell, with prices matching the dark original: CAD$599.95 off-contract or CAD$149.95 for three years. And we know all phones look better in white, right?

White Galaxy S II gets not-so-festive October launch in Canada originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember all that iPhone tracking hubbub back in April? Sure you do — you probably also recall Apple’s denial, the subsequent Senate hearing, and the rest of the fiasco’s dramatic fallout. Amid the ballyhoo, Microsoft stepped out to admit that its Windows Phone also collected location data, but quickly promised to knock it off following the next scheduled update. According to ChevronWP7 collaborator Rafael Rivera, Windows Phone 7.5 cinches it: Mango “no longer sends location data prior to being granted permission to do so.” Redmond previously told the US House of Representatives that it only collected location data if a user expressly allowed an application to send it along — a claim which Rivera debunked last week, noting that simply launching the camera application captured and transmitted “pin-point accurate positioning information.” The big M maintains that the collected location data was anonymous, and that it shouldn’t have been sent at all unless the user allowed it. Either way, Microsoft’s chapter in the big location tracking blunder of 2011 seems to be at a close, squaring the firm with Congress, its developers, and hopefully its customers.

Mango kills Microsoft’s always-on location tracking, makes good on letter to House of Representatives originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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