July 15, 2007

Blogger Goes Mobile

"Snap a photo and write some text … send it to blogger, and we’ll do the rest!” Now, we can blog everywhere.

With Blogger Mobile, we can easily make a post to your blog by just sending the text and/or photos from your mobile phone to go@blogger.com via mms or e-mail. You don’t need any installation and you can just do it right away with your phone now.

You don’t need to have a blogger account in order to use the Blogger Mobile service. By sending e-mail to go@blogger.com from your phone and it will create a new blog for you automatically. It will send you back the address of your blog after that and you can visit it on the web. You may claim the blog later if you want to edit your blog.

The bad thing is that it supports to only some US carriers (Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T/Cingular). It won’t work if you send a mail to go@blogger.com from your webmail gateway, Gmail for example.

If you would like to post to your blog via e-mail, you may use the Mail-to-Blogger feature in the blogger. It will give you an secret email address (NOT go@blogger.com) for you to do the posting. However, you can only post text.

The service is free but there may be a charge for sending MMS or e-mail from your mobile phone, which depends on your service plan that you are using of your phone service provider (operator / carrier).

I didn’t try it out yet, so I can’t give any comments on that. The way that blogger is trying to do is to make the things easier for the mobile users to make a post by just sending an e-mail or mms. That's good because the mobile users do not need to spend a lot of time to learn how to use the service. Comparing to making a mobile app for this service, they may lose some mobile users that refuse to do installation because some mobile users feels installation is a pain for them.

To know more:
Blogger Mobile
Blogger Mobile FAQ

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