Vodafone has announced a new deal with MySpace which will make footage from Vodafone’s sponsored music events (of which there are loads these days) available to users of MySpace.
Reuters is reporting that the new service, called Vodafone Music Reporter, will launch in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The Vodafone Music Reporter will feature user-generated content which is pretty much a must for any service being touted as a Web 2.0 Music Platform.
Sound bites aside the idea is that users will be able to share their experiences at Vodafone sponsored music events by uploading and downloading content including pictures and videos. There will also be a blog where members of the Vodafone Music Reporter community will be able to read about updates in the Vodafone musical calendar.
To top it all off users of the service will be able to enter a competition to prove their skills as a reporting guru by covering Vodafone Music Unlimited events this summer with the chance to win a role in an MTV show episode which will be aired online and on mobile.
With Vodafone snaring the likes of Madonna for exclusive distribution deals as well as spearheading various music festivals around the world including Germany’s Music Unlimited festival in Cologne, its partnership with MySpace could well be a significant meeting of minds.
More on this as soon as we have it.
The Sidekick messaging devices haven’t had as high a profile here in the UK as in the US, although T-Mobile is now selling the very attractive Sidekick Slide, which should change that. Not least because it’s just got a new MySpace Mobile application, providing push access to the social network. Push? Yep: you can access messages, comments, friend requests and other info, and get automatic alerts pop up to tell you when new messages arrive, rather than have to log in to check them. There’s also one-button uploading of photos to your profile, and the ability to edit your profile from the Sidekick. Oh, and the app is free to use, too. If you have a Sidekick, you can download it from the community folder of the handset’s Catalogue menu. It’s certainly a neat idea, and is comparable to the dedicated Facebook application for BlackBerry devices that was launched last year. Actually, that’s our only quibble with the Sidekick news - it’d be nice to have similar apps for Facebook and Bebo available for the Slide…
Vodafone has started letting its customers upload content to Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and YouTube – direct from their handset.
The operator, finally facing up to what its customers want to be able to do on their handsets, has opened up its service so that users can upload pictures and videos to their online networking site.
To do this, users must click on My Communities on Vodafone Live! and download the app, choosing which of the four services they want to upload content for.
At the moment, only Nokia N95 8GB and Sony Ericsson W910i users can do so, but expect this list of handsets to get bigger.
It’s the first time Vodafone customers (Or indeed almost any mobile users) can do this, so expect a rash of rival operators all announcing similar services in the coming months.
[Via Pocket Lint]
Want YouTube on your phone but fed up with only have the (very) limited selection currently available for mobiles? With hours of video being uploaded every minute on YouTube you know it’s going to take them a lifetime to configure all of them for mobile phones.
Luckily some enterprising developers have managed create a streaming media player plug-in that’ll let you browse ALL YouTube videos and watch them on your smartphone.
The plug-in works by converting YouTube videos to play on Windows Media Player installed on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based smartphones.
To set it up you simply need to go to the YouTube Pocket website, download the YouTube player to your smartphone and you’re away.
The people behind YouTube Pocket have also developed other mobile services including a Gmail viewer and MySpace music player for mobile phones.
[Via Coolsmartphone.com]
The latest installment of the Pocket Picks iPhone review concerns the two most high-profile Web 2.0 apps on the handset: YouTube and Google Maps. They’re both the result of Apple palling up with Google, despite the latter having its own mobile ambitions with the Android platform.
YouTube first, then. It lets you browse the popular video-sharing site by Featured vids, Most Viewed, Top Rated, Most Recent, and using a Search function. In the case of Most Viewed, you can narrow it down to today, this week, or all-time depending on your preference. On the iPhone, you can see how YouTube is a good dip-in dip-out experience, in that you fire up the app, watch a few videos to kill time, then duck out again.
Choosing a video switches iPhone into widescreen mode, and the quality is pretty good (obviously, you’ll want to be using the iPhone’s wi-fi connection rather than EDGE). Once watched, you can bookmark them, share (this sends an email with the link in), and click straight through to a bunch of related vids. The only disappointment is there’s no way to read or post comments, or even ratings.
Continue reading ‘UK iPhone Review Part 5: YouTube and Google Maps’
Bango, which specialises in mobile payment provision, has launched a one-touch access to mobile content from users’ social networking sites, or blogs.
The “Get On My Mobile” Bango Button is designed so anyone using a social website, media sharing site, forum or blog can make their content available to mobile phone users with one click.
The Bango service will automatically resize images for download to mobile phones, and can configure sites to fit on mobile screens - so you don’t have to.
It’s been designed for sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Bebo, Friendster, LinkedIn, Blogger, Orkut and WordPress. It’s already been through Beta testing and is now being rolled out to the public.
To create their own ‘Get On My Mobile’ button, users simply have to insert a code generated by Bango next to the content they want to share from their site. When users click on the button, they will get a URL which they enter into their mobile’s browser. If you want to make money, you can charge for downloading this content.
Mixipix, the mobile cartoon messaging service, has launched mixibodz. For the first time users can create an avatar of their choice, then animate them and upload them to the website of their choice.
If you fancy sprucing up your pic on sites like Facebook, MySpace and other networking sites, you can now with the mixibodz, which had previously only been available to send to other mobile users.
Users can create and save multiple characters, and can be edited on the fly to suit the user’s mood or wardrobe.
Mixipix has been around since 2004, letting people create cartoon messages to send to mobile users. Mixibodz can now let users share their content to both mobiles and online social networking sites. To choose your online avatar, visit the Mixibodz website here.
MySpace looks set to go mobile in the US, with a little help from advertisers.
According to Mobile Entertainment, Fox Interactive – which is owned by Rupert Murdock as well as MySpace - will launch an ad-funded version of MySpace for American mobile users.
The new mobile version of MySpace will be offered as a downloadable application. It will let users do all they can normally do on MySpace such as send and receive messages, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs and amend their mood status, all from their phones.
The application, which will be free to download, will feature adverts from selected companies while a version with more features will be available to AT&T and Helio subscribers.
Mobile Entertainment also said that versions of other sites such as as FoxSports.com, IGN.com and film review site Rotten Tomatoes will also launch as part of Fox Interactive’s strategy of taking its raft of websites onto mobile phones.
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