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Taking blogging to phones
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By Jørgen Sundgot, Wednesday 8 January 2003  
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Ireland-based NewBay Software readies software that will enable mobile network operators to let customers update blogs with text and pictures straight from their mobile phones.
Blogging has become a well-known expression over the course of the past few years, with a steadily increasing number of persons creating websites to share all sorts of thoughts, opinions and other writings with fellow surfers in real-time. Until recently, however, real-time has been synonymous with whenever a user is close to the computer - but now, Ireland-based NewBay Software hopes to change all that.
The company's new FoneBlog software, to be sold to mobile operators, enables mobile phone users to create and maintain personal websites - blogs - from their phone. Using FoneBlog, network operators will be able to provide unique web addresses for their customers, who in turn can update personal websites in real time by sending images and text from their mobile phone.
FoneBlog, like many other blogging applications, aims to eliminate manual website maintenance. The software, hosted by the network operator, automatically stores and formats incoming messages that are then added to the appropriate user's website in a diary or log fashion. As each entry is sent, it is automatically added to the top of the website with each day creating a new webpage. According to NewBay Software, the website can be viewed from any web browser, and visitors automatically see the most recent entry or can click on a calendar to view previous days.
When implemented by a mobile phone operator, the software will operate at the server side, and is said to work with all mobile phone systems using MMS, SMS e-mail, WAP and Instant Messaging - although which standard was not specified. It provides all website creation, updating, formatting and management, and will according to NewBay Software also support a wide range of blogging capabilities such as RSS, XML RPC, skins support and BlogApps.
Users will also be able to login to their website from a computer browser to edit the entries and layout of their blog or change their preferences, while a variety of FoneBlog Skins that provide different layout and colour schemes will be available for users to choose from.
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