Micro-blogging from Mobile Phones

In our busy world, cellphone users are growing more fond of mobile net devices and the commuication possibilities of texting. Increasing popularity of micro-blogging is prompting social networking sites to make things much easier and more useful.

Mobile devices stoke 'micro-blogging' fervor
By: Ian Sherr
AFP
April 12th, 2008

Mobile Internet devices and online communities are merging to a new kind of web diary: "micro-blogging," where people fire off terse missives about what they are doing or thinking at any given moment. The postings are bare-bones, on-the-go versions of online journals in which people share their lives and dreams -- hence the name micro-blogging. "Blogging has evolved and become more formalized," said Yahoo Design Pattern Library curator Christian Crumlish, author of social networking book "The Tower of Many."
"A beautiful blog entry is an art form, and it takes time. So, micro-blogging fits into your life where you take a minute or two to see what's going on and go back to work."
Hot website Twitter has attracted a large following since launching slightly more than two years ago as a way to share Haiku-like text message updates with unlimited numbers of friends instantly via mobile telephones.
The service entices users with its signature line, "What are you doing?"
Startup Utterz, publicly unveiled last year, goes a step further by allowing users to post text, video, photos or audio from mobile telephones to the Internet with a simple call.
"What are the four things you can do with a mobile phone? You can talk, you can send text, you can take pictures and send video," Utterz president Randy Corke told AFP.
"We want to use the technology that you have in your pocket," he said....
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