Mobile phone users want to upload content to multiple sites but do not have the time and/or ability to do so. ShoZu allows content to be shared on multiple sites by clicking one button. Users can also view friend's content updates through this application.
ShoZu is a provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset. The company was founded in 2001 in London and now has offices in San Francisco, France, Spain and Italy. The company is funded by investors, which include Atlas Venture, Crescendo Ventures, TLcom Capital partners and TTP Ventures.
Tool Category:
App resides and runs on a mobile phone
Key Features :
The main sites ShoZu collaborates with are: Flickr, Facebook, Dailymotion, Photobucket, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster, 23, Box, CNN and a few more. The main kinds of sites the company works with are: photo sharing, online communities, blogging and journalism Users can choose their mobile phone platforms on ShoZu's website and then purchase the application.
VeriCorder enables users with smartphones to record sound and video with their phones, import video and audio clips, create clips from multiple sources and share the finished clips online.
Kanchoo is a support service for publishing mobile phone applications. Users provide the content and graphics and Kanchoo develops the application and provides a content management system. Once the application is active, the company can also assist with monetization and advertising services. Is is a Hong-Kong based company and Kanchoo means "publish" in Chinese.
Kanchoo works with media companies, businesses, and organizations to publish and distribute content to mobile platforms. The company asks users to submit specific graphics and content and then develops the application and provides a content management system for updates to the application. The service costs users US$88 to create the application and US$28/month to host it.
Tool Category:
App resides and runs on a mobile phone
Key Features :
Kanchoo makes it easy for users to create their own mobile phone applications. Users create an account and upload a small number of required items. Users can preview the application before Kanchoo submits it to the iTunes App Store for approval. Kanchoo also provides a content management system for the user. It is free to create an account and experiment with the service.
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Problem or Need:
The Nokia S60 3rd edition video editor comes standard on Nokia N95 phones. The video editor is a simple video editing tool that allows a user to cut clips, add special effects, credits, and sound to video clips, and publish clips to a website, all through a mobile phone.
The Nokia S60 3rd edition video editor comes standard on Nokia N95 phones. It is part of the S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) - a software platform for mobile phones that run on Symbian OS. The video editor is a simple video editing tool that allows a user to cut clips, add special effects, credits, and sound to video clips, and publish clips to a website, all through a mobile phone.
The Nokia S60 3rd edition video editor comes standard on Nokia N95 phones. It allows a user to cut clips, add sound, transitions, credits, and special effects such as slow motion or black and white. A user can create "micro-movies." The final version of the movie can be saved on the phone itself and sent via MMS, e-mail, or uploaded to a website.
Main Services:
Multi-Media Messaging (MMS) or other Multi-Media
Tool Maturity:
Currently deployed
Release Date:
2010-08
Platforms:
Symbian/3rd
Current Version:
1.3
Program/Code Language:
MESymbian
Reviews/Evaluations:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Editing_a_Video_Presentation_on_teh_N95.php
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/media/item/Videocast_11_Video_editing_on_the_Nokia_N95.p
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PixelPipe gives users the ability to post content to many social networks simultaneously. One does not need to log into each site to post with Pixel Pipe's platform.
Pixelpipe is a media distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 100 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage. PixelPipe provides a number of mobile and desktop applications for users.
Tool Category:
App resides and runs on a mobile phone
Is a web-based application/web service
Key Features :
Upload media via destop or mobile phone and share it with numerous social networks, sites, and blogs. The platform has been built from the ground up and is automated. The architecture allows for changes and capacity additions when needed. PixelPipe has tools for most mobile and web platforms available for download.
There are two new projects in India that are taking advantage of the ubiquity of mobile phones and cheap voice calling there in order to get news to rural villagers. Widespread illiteracy makes newspapers and SMS alerts inadequate as news delivery systems, and irregular electricity makes television and radio unreliable. Voice calls are also very inexpensive in India, with per-second billing and a downward price-war among the main operators. Voice calls over mobile phones are an easy way for villagers to stay informed.
In the region of Uttar Pradesh, Gaon Ki Awaaz delivers twice-daily news updates via voice calls to villagers in their native Avhadi language. Launched in December 2009, the project now has 250 subscribers spread throughout 20 villages. Read our case study on the project here.
Further south, a similar project is operating among the members of the Adivassi tribe in India. Like Gaon Ki Awaaz, it allows villagers to share and receive news over their mobile phones in their native language (in this case, Gondi). Launched by Shubhranshu Choudhary of the International Center for Journalists, the project focuses on citizen reports with dozens of citizen journalists reporting throughout the region. Watch the video below to see how the project works. For more on audio services, see also our recent scan of projects and tools, Talk to Me: A Survey of Voice-Based Mobile Tech.
These two projects highlight the promise of the mobile phone for targeted news reporting; mobiles can provide cheap, reliable access to hyper-local news that may be more independent than government-controlled media. As mobiles become more common in rural areas, similar projects can provide a way to keep citizens connected.
Anne-Ryan Heatwole is a writer for MobileActive.org
Gaon Ki Awaaz: News Alerts for Rural Villagers data sheet 5723 Views
One call can bring news to hundreds in rural villages in India. Gaon Ki Awaaz, which means “Village Voice” in the Avhadi language, sends out twice-daily news calls to subscribers directly over their mobile phones. Launched in December 2009, the project recently expanded to 250 subscribers spread over 20 villages.
Ruder Finn's Mobile Intent Index examines the underlying motivations or reasons – intents – people have for using their mobile phones. The representative and Census-balanced online study of 500 American adults 18 years of age and older who "use their mobile device to go online or to access the Internet" was conducted in November 2009 by RF Insights among respondents who belong to Western Wats' large consumer panel, Opinion Outpost. The Mobile Intent Index asked respondents how frequently they use their mobile phones to go online for 295 reasons.
The study reveals that 95 percent of mobile phone owners use their devices to stay informed, including 60 percent who browse news on current events and 39 percent who read a local newspaper. Among other findings, 100 percent of those studied used their phones to simply pass the time and 93 percent connected with others via social networks.
Broadband Use and Adoption in America data sheet 2014 Views
Author:
John B. Horrigan
Publication Date:
Feb 2010
Publication Type:
Report/White paper
Abstract:
The FCC conducted a survey of 5,005 Americans in October and November 2009 in an effort to understand the state of broadband adoption and use, as well as barriers facing those who do not have broadband at home. Pages 21-23 contain data about mobile usage.
The report indicates that 86 percent of American adults own a cell phone, and 30% use their devices to access the mobile web. In contrast, 66% have sent or received text messages. The numbers are higher for minorities; 36% of African-American and Hispanic users use their devices to access the mobile web. There is also a generational gap; 48% of those 19-29 access the mobile web, compared to only 5% of those over 65.
