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This is a snapshot of the distinctly flakey looking Link store on the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. It caught my attention because of the huge banner across the top of the window there declaring that THIS STORE ONLY is selling unlocked & unconnected mobile handsets.
I wonder why it’s THIS STORE ONLY?
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I’ve been thinking about the use of mms/email/3rd party app posting from phones lately, well, Im always thinking about it, but at the moment decidedly more so.
Some of the reason is because of the stuff you’ve been talking about lately, like the really nice little flash frontend post app. It strikes me reading this post that it’s something that people will find kinda funny (for the same reasons you did), and might want to comment on.
The thing is, the most visited of us ‘bloggers of all things mobile’ aside, very few people are going to comment or engage with the hyper contextual, ultra slim message format that moblogging provides; they’ll look and smile mostly.
Do you want people to engage with your posts from mobile? those posts that do tell a simple and often funny/poignant story with nothing but a subject and a picture? If you do, then you need a community; that’s where the disconnect is for me with applications like the (decidely nifty) front end flash thinger you posted about recently - how many blogs survive without an audience? Bugger all.
Slim-context posting via mobile needs an audience engaged in the same practice and educated that it is not necessarily the depth of your content that is the reason to talk, the comments themselves lead the conversation into places you would never have dreamed of when you posted a pic of the Link store on Oxford circus.
Sorry mate, sort of thinking out loud here
Posted by alfie on July 18th, 2006 at 8:26 pm.You make an excellent point Alfie — and one to which I don’t have an immediate answer. I remarked that I’d like to see a mojungle flash app that I could include top right here on the blog — this is in the works. I think I’d like the facility to be able to send an image directly to that album.
However I really don’t quite know how I’d use it. As you point out, I generally want to post images and comment on them as I did with this piece on The Link.
I know that I’d like to have a mojungle on the site here — in fact I’d really like a mojungle of my moblog or flickr feed actually. The act of ‘flicking’ through the album appeals.
Still, I’m not quite sure on the application of it all — to me.
I can certainly see the potential with a MySpace user who isn’t quite sure how to get images from their handset on to the web. If you take my friends Jo and Nat, the girls I’ve written about frequently — their mobile experience is low. They don’t care about how things work — they just know what they want. So any method which helps them get photos or media from their handset to their MySpace page is patently good news.
Hmm… It’s one to think on. In fact it’s a wicked issue to debate on over a pint of coke at about 630pm sat somewhere in sunny London.
Posted by Ewan on July 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm.arghen - this weekend I am taking the young tabby thing to Newquay for her birthday; Surfing and crazy Sphereing (rolling down a hill at 60kph in a transparent inflateable ball
).
I totally see your point for use in Myspace, although Myspace supports direct posting from mobile. Flickr, and also moblogUK *have* a flash front-end gallery thing, take a look at http://www.al4ie.com in the right hand sidebar; there’s a “my latest moblog posts” flash app, each image is clickable and takes you to the original post.
Posted by alfie on July 19th, 2006 at 8:33 am.