Mashup Tools (2): Now Mobile
In my previous blog I wrote about friendly mashup tools which do not require users to acquire any technical or programming expertise. My intro talked about Web 2.0. This current blog addresses the same subject with regards to Mobile 2.0:
“Consumers often take the lead, playing with user-generated content in myriad ways. They can seamlessly “mash up” or combine, say, music or video from various sources and integrate applications from their personal computers and printers with their handsets [...] In Korea, cell-phone subscribers have begun using their phones to write music, create new game characters, and design games by using simple software”. BusinessWeek.
ShoZu offers an easy way to upload videos and photos from a mobile phone to web sites, blogs, and email addresses.
This mobile application supports the leading popular video and photosharing sites (e.g. Flickr), blogs, citizen journalism sites and other internet destinations.
You can actually add a description and tags from your phone anytime. ShoZu will also forward to your phone any comments left by people on your blog. With certain sites you can even reply to them.
MobileGlu would be another example, currently supportting del.icio.us, Flickr, moblogUK, upcoming.org, Blogger, and RSS feeds to name a few.
BonesInMotion has developed a fitness mobile client which uses location data from online services, e.g. tapping into Google Maps to display your runs. Exercise information is uploaded to your web portal on bimactive.com.
In Japan, DoCoMo works on new “open-domain technology”, which would eventually allow mobile users to create their own operating systems and browser menus.
References:
- BusinessWeek: Asia’s mobile mashup free for all
- RF Design: Development tool enables advanced mobile applications
- Mobuser: What is a mobile mashup?
This blog’s Long Tail: Mashup tools: blending and personalizing, Congratulations WordPress, Customers are helping to develop products, iCommons: share the past, create the future, Google Apps, Outside Innovation.
