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March 31, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Making blogging mobile

TAGS: Wireless

The next big thing in blogging may just be the ability to blog from a mobile phone, at least if a company called Intercasting gets its way.

The company plans to release in April an application, called Rabble, that will enable users to blog directly from a cell phone and, according to a Mercury News atricle, a major wireless provider will offer the service.

Intercasting says Rabble is about more than blogging. Here is the marketingspeak from the company's Web site:

Rabble enables a new kind of self-expression that informs, entertains and connects people through the media they create. It’s like putting virtual sticky notes on the world around you. Through bits of location-tagged media, find and interact with other people and get information you won’t find in the yellow pages. Part blogging, part location-based personal networking, Rabble connects mobile consumers with the world around them through a unique and intuitive way by turning users into producers and creating a marketplace for mobile user-generated content.

I've read terms like mobile blogs, mobile media revolution, personal publishing platform, and content with local relevance, to describe Rabble, but it's too early to predict any revolutions, technological, social or otherwise.

At first blush, though, Rabble seems like one of those products that someone should have created already. Presuming that inputting blog posts and images is easy enough via mobile phones to make the process worthwhile, the notion of posting via a phone seems to be something of a gimme.

The Mercury News story also quoted a Yankee Group analyst saying that Rabble will face competition from the likes of Yahoo in the near future.

Intercasting's president Derrick Oien has a blog of his own.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 31, 2005 08:06 AM

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