mediajunk

I've been anticipating the mass arrival of moblogs since January 2003. Until now, moblogging has been practiced only by the ultra-geeky, since it involves the manual combination of MMS messages and weblog software. One Irish company called Newbay offers a "foneblog" software product that integrates the two, but the phenomenon was unlikely to take off unless one of the major players began offering such a service to its customers. Enter Nokia who, according Niel McIntosh at the Guardian, will next week unveil its new "Lifeblog" app, which will enable phone users to create a "multimedia diary" on the web. It will be interesting to see whether phone users take to this technology. The history of phone/internet overlap has so far been one of much hype, but little consumer action.