Comments on: Will 'moblogs' mean mo' money?

Instant online photo journals promise new demand for wireless data services, but privacy concerns loom.

TextAmerica Meet & Greet

TextAmerica is a fun community and as such, we (end users) are
putting together a Meet & Greet in South Florida May 15th. So
far people are traveling from CA, NC, and NJ to attend. http://
meet-n-greet.textamerica.com.

true....

What a great article, taking in both personal usage, and the networks need to monetise this expanding area of use.

Textamerica is fun, true, but one of their terms and conditions is that they own everything you post to your moblog, and that they are able to make commercial use of any of your images/video, and no-one else, including yourself, may.

This upset me so much that we set up our own moblog community, licensed under a <a href=http://creativecommons.org/">creative commons license ensuring that all of our users retain ownership of their content, and allowing our code to be used by others should they want to set up a moblog community of their own for no commercial use.

As well as this, our technology allows for the greatest range of content that mobile phones produce to be posted to the site. In addition to this, anyone anywhere in the world can use our provision directly from their phones.

Not to denigrate Textamerica or others like it, but to highlight that there is a better way to moblog.

I wish I was able to be there!

I know this is going to a BLAST, Bryan and I hope to get to meet all of you in person a the NEXT big event. I will be in Norther Maine for my annual visit with my Father for that part of May. There's still time to switch this to Moosehead Lake. We could all go fishing! :-)

A real alternative to Textamerica.

Textamerica is a very large moblogging community, and overall, a good one. There is one catch to you using their service however; They own everything you send. It's part of their terms and conditions.

It seems a better way to moblog, and to ensure that your material doesnt become commercially exploited, would be to have your work licensed under some kind of copyright, but how do you do that?

There is a moblog site www.mobloguk.com which offers all of its users the opportunity to retain ownership of their content through use of a Creative Commons License. www.creativecommons.org

This seems a fairer way to operate with other peoples personal content, and I wonder if it will become more the norm in this emerging area of mobile technology and web convergance.

an outright slanderous LIE?

I guess attempting to publicly trash your competition is one way to build your site, but anyone who reads the TOS at textamerica.com can clearly see we do not claim any right to or own the images posted by our users. Please try something more a little creative next time. You can at least try to entertain us!

I love TextAmerica

I am one of many who simply adore TA. I'm scheduled to attend the meet and greet in May! I just hope this "deal to license its technology to a top-five cell carrier" doesn't affect my blogging experiance. (See my blog: http://sydusa.textamerica.com )

DIY Moblogging

Moblogging will likely become a big hit not only through portals like TextAmerica but will also grow in popularity as a result of the simplicity and ubiquity of the technology it employs. MMS naturally interfaces to email with multi-part MIME emails. This makes it pretty easy to bring the content into your website. I have done this on my own personal moblog at ianwood.com/mobile.

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