While Flickr users are getting their knickers in a twist over its launch of videos, mobile backup firm Mobyko has snuck up with its own multimedia sharing service. It lets people upload photos and videos direct from their phones to Mobyko’s gallery, which can then be shared with mates online.
It even lets you store texts, which Mobyko says is ideal if you need to keep an important text from a business associate. Does that ever happen in the real world? I assume there’s also a feature that stops your important texts being shared with the world alongside your photos and videos, mind. You can organise all this stuff into albums, and add descriptions to individual photos and videos.”We wanted to give every mobile user the tools to ensure that they would never again lose a mobile moment,” says Mobyko CEO Julian Saunders.
It’s a logical extension to the company’s existing contacts backup service, but it remains to be seen whether it’ll attract new users, given the competition from individual sites like Flickr and YouTube, established mobile startups like ShoZu, and handset apps like Nokia’s Lifeblog.
I know what you’re thinking: isn’t Flickr the Flickr of mobile photography? After all, there are numerous ways to get your camphone snaps onto Yahoo’s photo-sharing site. However, that hasn’t stopped US firm Mobicious from launching its own mobile-centric service, called SnapMyLife.
The idea: you take a shot on your phone, and immediately send it to SnapMyLife using MMS or email, where it’s published for the world to see. There’s also some good social networking features, allowing you to invite friends from your phone, and get alerts when they publish new pics. Oh, and there’s no filth involved, since the company is using filters to identify and remove risque snaps. CEO George Grey is certainly bullish:
“Internet-based social networks and photo-sharing sites have recently introduced mobile uploading features, but have only scratched the surface. Many of SnapMyLife’s early users prefer to use the mobile-focused SnapMyLife site over services that provide their ‘full-experience’ on desktop interfaces.”
Although it launched today, the site’s had more than 90 days of pre-launch testing, and claims to have signed up more than 1,000 people a day, attracting over 500,000 unique visitors last month alone. Oh, and it’s apparently one of the ten most popular social networking web apps on the iPhone already. It’s well worth a look.
