The new picture of personal space

Posted on | November 6, 2005 |

Priyanka Joshi writes in Business Standard on Moblogs and its potential in India.

Little wonder the user base of popular moblog sites such as Text America (latest available figure: 500,000), Flickr (250,000), Yafro (100,000), Buzznet (20,000) and Mobog (16,000) is growing exponentially. The big daddy of them all, MSN Spaces, has more than 1.5 million users, but not all of them are mobloggers.

Moblogging services from telcos lack the insight into blogging to actually make them useful tools. Since they look at moblogs just another way to increase their MMS traffic. Mobile-blogging tools enable one to post images, videos or text to a web location, but do little to engender the conversations that characterise blogs.

Coruscant, a mobile content provider, is ready to release a new application generically named Moblogs.

The application promises to post blogs, edit posts, view and make comments, host your location to others, share posts with grouped communities, send out trackbacks, and much more. Initially, the application would be offered free of cost to all registered users.

Ajay Adiseshann, managing director of Coruscant, feels that mobile blogging is an emerging market but no one is clear as to how can this market can be tapped. “This is virgin territory. It is up to us to judge how to carve out a revenue model for this side.

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