As we close in on the end of the year, I’d like to go back and review some of the more interesting discussions and debates we had throughout the year. One of them is mobile blogging (moblogging) and its future in the Philippine cybersphere.
Back in April, Jayvee, Marc and I were debating on the viability of mobile blogging in the Philippines (see: Why MoBlogging isn’t hot in the Philippines?).
Different viewpoints were shared — moblogging is expensive, there are usability problems and more. My contention then was that Filipinos aren’t really that hot with personal blogging. Later on, I got a tip that Smart rolled out a mobile blogging platform (via MMS) and it drew over 100,000 users. The bait — it was totally free. Well, until they made it for pay and then the people stopped using it.
Fast forward today, where every other active blogger also has a Twitter account. Add to that the availability of cheap 3G services from Smart. And since Twitter Mobile (http://m.twitter.com) is a click away, you’ve already solve all the earlier issues on usability, cost and accessibility.
Does that mean that Mobile Blogging in the Philippines has started or maybe even reached its peak?
Let’s do a quick survey, shall we? If you are on Twitter, do you:
1) Use your Mobile Phone Regularly to Post and Access Twitter
2) Sometimes Use Mobile Twitter
3) Don’t Use Your Phone to Post on Twitter
4) You seldom use Twitter
I’ve been making some rounds doing spot checks on Twitter and I also found a lot of them are not actually updating for months now. Would also be interesting to do a survey on Filipino Twitters and see how active or inactive we are on the twitterspace.
i got hook to twitter lately that i asked my husband to put up some twitter gateway for fun.for some quick rants/posts, text is the easiest way to do it
anybody interested to try it, can check here http://tweetmoments.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/send-tweets-using-celphone-in-philippines/
tenchu =)
did i mention http://laconi.ca and http://identi.ca? mobile blogging goes open source. :P
i have previously thought of mobile blogging as a sort-of-case-study project but has never started it way back. then came twitter, then came phtwitters. just twitting my daily rants through mobile phone.
“So at last, SUN Cellular released a very affordable twitter and facebook service without even connecting to the internet. For only 15 pesos a day (24 hours), you can send unlimited number of twits and updates on your facebook. Yuppee!!!
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And how do I access that, please?