Mobile App Creator with Soundcloud Integration

http://www.traexs.com/music-video/2013/04/19/mobile-app-creator-with-soundcloud-integration/

Latest Edition of Mobile Phone Creative Guidelines announced

http://www.folden.info/emarketing/2013/04/17/latest-edition-of-mobile-phone-creative-guidelines-announced/

Mobile Voice Ads come to the Market

http://www.folden.info/emarketing/2013/04/09/mobile-voice-ads-come-to-the-market/

Augmented Reality Sources

You probably already heard about augmented reality being a trend especially in mobile media with applications displaying information about subjects while holding a mobile phone cam onto a subject around you. Such services are offered by the Layar and Wikitude mobile browsers. Furthermore there are a couple of mobile apps for the iPhone and Android system around.

An up to date overview of augmented reality trends and services is available at the June update at FOLDEN. There is a list of articles about augmented reality and a brief review at the marketing update.

Mobile Game Creation Software

A new mobile game software and portal had been launched by Mo'Minis. The service offers a free software for the creation of mobile games. The software enables both laities and professionals to easily design games, which are compatible with various mobile platforms and may be shared at the homepage or directly with friends. Other services are awards and a forum. The software is available for Windows XP and Vista. Further information is available by the faq of the homepage and by video tutorials.

Chat to Text connects Web with Mobile Phones

Chat to Text is another application, that enables the connection of websites and mobile phones by text messaging. Opposed to the former introduced chat widgets it is not a tool for visual chat at a website, where mobile users may participate. Chat to Text is supplying a button, which may become installed at a website and which enables everyone to connect with the site or site owner by a click on this button.

Personal Broadcasting from Smartphones and the Web

Bambuser provides an application for live broadcasting. The service enables to broadcast by digital cams, webcams and from equipped smartphones. Mobile broadcasts may happen by connection to GSM Networks or Wifi. If there is only a slow connections available, the quality of a stream may become adjusted by the image size. Further features are sharing of archived videos and a chat function within the video player.

To watch videos there are a search engine and a geographical assorted directory available at the homepage. Further general information and information on how to download the application are available at the FAQ page.

Mobile Commerce Applications and Services

Business Thursday: The mobile market is one of the most promising growth markets and now might be the right time to start a business to participate or to establish a mobile channel. There are some business opportunities that are most similar to the web and some that are unique. The most similar business opportunity to the web is to monetize mobile pages by advertising. Another opportunity is to monetize applications. Something unique in mobile business is premium sms messaging. In the following there are two webbased applications, which are easy to use for everyone and a took kit to monetize applications. For more professional business solutions have a look at mobile commerce and to monetize content by advertising visit mobile advertising.

Fortumo offers messaging services in european countries and china. These messaging service may become applied to offer premium content services and to create a sms chat box. People may either pay to receive content or to send messages. A more advanced option is the opportunity to create own sms campaigns and to offer rewards. An outstanding option is the ability to connect the premium content facility with YouTube. This way it is a way to monetize video content. The Fortumo service is free to join and offers ready to use applications and advanced service for developers. The business opportunity is based on revenue sharing. If you look for an international service, you may try TeleWord.

Playscreen is a mobile platform for user generated content, that has already been covered here.

Mogees is a service to monetize mobile applications. They are offering a tool kit that needs to become integrated into an application. By this the application may become transformed into a shareware version to sell the full version. Another way is to monetize applications by the subscription model. All the business is handled by the online service.

A Platform for User Generated Mobile Content

Playscreen is platform for user generated content used at mobile phones and a mobile commerce system. The service is dedicated to everyone as well as to professionals. There are tools for wallpapers and ringtones. Members may use own images and sell them by using the mobile commerce system. The same is due to ringtones. Ringtones may either consist of available media or may become created with the Playscreen Music Mixer. The ringtone feature too does offer bands and musicians a way to promote tracks and montize by selling ringtones at a mobile content portal.

Digital Signage at Mobile Phones is a Trend

Mobile usage is rising and a clear trend. Something that is less known and that might not have been expected is that using mobile phones for digital signage is a trend, too. This becomes feasible by smartphones with an installed bar code reader software or a scanner. Other services do enable this by using phone cams. There are a couple of differing services offering various mobile digital signage solutions. There are even solutions that send information in response to a photography of an object.

The trend of using mobile phones for digital signage has been found by the Web Analytics Association describing it as a challenge.

The article: Emerging Digital Trends impacting Web Analytics

Live Video by Mobile Phone Camera for Bloggers

Personal broadcasting by using a mobile phone camera is one of the most amazing new applications, which has already often been covered at this blog. Posts about this are sampled by live video.

One of these services is Kyte.tv now offering a solution targeting bloggers and small sized publishers at their company homepage. The solution enables to stream live and recorded video either from a webcam or by mobile phone directly to a blog or website. There are a couple of nice and useful features integrated like chat, rss and sms notifications. All features are included at the players at the Kyte.tv homepage.

Another great service that enable video broadcasting by using a mobile phone is zaplive.tv. I already heard about several events that have been streamed there live. They got a schedule to be informed about upcoming shows.

At a first post in May about live mobile video I estimated that this is a niche with about some thousand active users. Meanwhile popular channels have been visited several 100.000 times at Kyte.tv.

Mobile Social Media and Networking

Mobile social media is a hot activity at mobile phones as reported at Mobile Social Media ... Usage. A whole range of social media services are available as mobile only services and more and more social networking services do establish mobile sites. The popular news rating site Digg with its mobile version is an example.

The most noticeable difference of mobile applications might be the need for the installation of software opposite to the ease of use by a mobile page and access. Mobile widgets are a further option. Personally I favour the mobile access of services as these do not depend on a particular carrier and other issues. But of course the need to install a software might depend upon the importance and purpose. In the following there are some mobile social networks introduced accessible by login at mobile pages, which are all available at FOLDEN Mobile. Further applications are available by the following external link to mobile social media.

Most useful with mobile phones might be location based information as usually one is on the go. Location based information might delivered automaticly by gps devices and applications or gathered by mobile social media. A service that is about sharing local information is Socialight. The Socialight service is searchable by locations and items. Other ways to navigate are tags like history and channels for cities. Channels may become edited by groups of people. One may find other people and login to contribute and to discuss.

itsmy and MocoSpace are both popular mobile networks with 10000s of users online at the mobile internet. They are offering a lot of features like messaging, mobile pages and blogs, dating and mobile video.

mdog and mobiseer are about news. mdog is a mobile news search engine, which may become personalized and used to search information from websites and blogs. mobiseer is a mobile social bookmarking service displaying popularity by views. A couple of other mobile news and news sharing services are Mippin, ReadBurner for newsfeeds offering, too, a service to mobilize blogs and Technorati Mobile.

All services mentioned are available just by a click at social networking or news at FOLDEN Mobile, where mobile video is another nice feature beside travel information and other useful services.

Curious for Googles Android OS?

The Android OS is a Google software development project of an operating system for mobile phones. First mobile phones equipped with the Android OS are awaited this fall. MobileCrunch made an up to date video available with an up to date introduction to Android, which is embedded below.



Further up to date information is available at CrunchGear by the tag Android, information for developers and some further videos at the official Android Developers Blog.

Qik, Live Broadcasting from Mobile Phones

Qik is a personal broadcasting services, which enables everyone to stream live video from a mobile phone into the web is open now to everyone. Features they offer are live video at the homepage, groups, a search for people and an event page. It seems that the page is very active. While visiting there have been 29 live broadcasts and 376 recorded shows within the last hour.

Mobile Advertising is getting hot

Mobile advertising is an emerging market. People get smarter mobile phones with internet access and flatrates enable everyone to surf the mobile web without thinking about the costs. By this the mobile web becomes an everyday medium as it is the internet. There are already a couple of mobile advertising networks offering the same opportunities like ad networks on the internet. To independent publishers this is a new earning opportunity and a reason to develop mobile pages. Whereas actually the usage of the mobile web is beyond the usage of the web, the future looks promising because of the broad user base. There are about two billion mobile phone users in the world. Often mentioned key factors of the mobile internet are practical applications and tools. This is plausible as the screen is small and as on the go everything needs to work easily and fast. But this might change by available bandwidth and flatrates. Mobile social media already has become a very popular feature for mobile users as mentioned at Mobile Social Media dominates the Mobile Usage.

But mobile advertising and marketing is much more than display advertising. Other forms of advertising are text and multimedia messaging, coupons and incentives and mobile widgets. Further features of the future will be a broader usage of locations based media.

There is an up to date report with an overview about mobile advertising by the IAB available as a pdf file: A Mobile Advertising Overview. To learn more about mobile advertising and marketing I recommend the homepage of the MMA Global with up to date articles, reports about mobile campaigns and white papers. If you would like to surf the mobile web I recommend FOLDEN Mobile, which lists up to date mobile services usable without a software installation.

A further Mobile Live Broadcasting Application

Next2Friends is another personal live video broadcasting application for smartphones as described at
Live Broadcasting from a Mobile Phone. Videos become streamed live to the Next2Friends community and are stored at own community blogs. The Next2Friends mobile broadcasting service works by a software, which has to be installed at a smartphone. To use the service one needs to join the community by the website to get a blog for the videos. After installing the software and joining the community you are ready to stream live broadcasts from your mobile phone. The video streams may be watched live by at the community and by friends. Streamed videos are stored and ready to become embedded at websites or shared by links.

And there are a couple of further features at the community. It is also a video sharing site to upload videos and with ratings. It is a social network to get in touch with like minded people. The service is photo enabled, too, for photo sharing and there is a function to ask friends or community members for their opinion about a subject you made a photo about. There is also a function called proximity tagging, which means that you can go in touch with other users nearby you in real life by bluetooth. Last but not least they are offering an online video editing software to work out stored videos. Visit Next2Friends here.

A global Social Network by WiFi Access

WeFi is a social network and community of WiFi access points and users, which is a high speed wireless standard used in home networking and for internet access mostly at notebooks and by particular mobile phones. The WeFi network now has reached over 1 million access points as communicated lately. Founded just about two years ago it has already become a global network, which is enabled by a free software. The software is a wifi finder, which locates the fastest hotspots around and does automaticly connect to it. To find a hotspot around there is a map feature to locate the nearest and suitable location offering wifi internet access. The network is growing by the users as participants of the network are encouraged to gather information about wifi access points. Also owners and suppliers of internet access points are welcome to add own hotspots to the listing. Actually there are about 10 new access points added every minute.

And it is also a global community with chat and a social network with information sharing features. The software enables a location based network to get connected and to find new friends nearby by location sharing. Connecting and location sharing may even happen by a map. Last but not least there are APIs and widgets to integrate with other social networks like facebook and twitter.

This service for sure is useful for travellers and it will be interesting to see what happens in the future. Location based information would be a nice feature.

Top 10 File Hosting and File Sharing Services for Social Networking

File sharing is a hot issue now as sharing of large multimedia files becomes possible by broadband internet connections. There are two variations, p2p file sharing using software to share files located at computers of participants and file sharing services that allow uploads, host the files and offer links for download. The latter may be used to send large files by email or to offer downloads at homepages and weblogs by links. Most of these file sharing services got different features and some of these services are going a step further now by offering web 2.0 interfaces with download and upload functions available for blogging and social networks or by offering mobile interfaces. Others combine file sharing with collaboration and backup services.

If you need it large either for your files or storage there are the following two file hosting services. File Dropper is a free service enabling uploads of real large files. They got a simple interface and allow file uploads up to 5 GB. After uploading one get a link to send it by email or a html link for website integration. Last but not least there are premium offers to manage uploaded files. Different to this is 4shared.com by offering 5 GB free storage. Here one gets a free account with file management, but the maximum file size for uploads is 100 MB. The premium services do allow larger file uploads, too. At 4shared.com there is also community featuring files at the homepage.

For blogging and social media there are the following services. DivShare offers multimedia file hosting and plugins to upload files from within particular social media services. For developers there is an api for the creation of own applications and widgets. EatLime is specialized in video sharing. They do offers widgets for the integration of videos at various social media services. Then there is MyDataBus.com enabling the upload of large files up to 1.5 GB and offering widgets for web 2.0 integration, too. Oosah got similar networking features. Furthermore they got functions to create mashups across several pages and to integrate files from the web.

Something in particular is offered by TinyLoad.com and Twittershare. TinyLoad.com is a meta upload tool with a choice of file hosting services to choose from. Uploaded media can be shared anywhere. Twittershare of course is for sharing files at Twitter.

With mobile access there are two most comfortable services, humyo.com and FilesAnywhere. Both have mobile interfaces for file access and a lot of features like security and data synchronization. For music, photo and video there are special streaming features at both. humyo.com is even offering mobile streaming, FilesAnywhere enables guests to upload files.

Find further file hosting and file sharing services.

Mobile Social Media dominates the Mobile Usage

Opera, a browser company offering a mobile browser, has released a Mobile Browsing Report and a press release about it, Social Networks Dominate the Mobile Web. The report clearly states that mobile social media is as popular as social media is on the web.

Live Broadcasting from a Mobile Phone

There are a couple of so called personal broadcasting services around, which enable everyone to broadcast live at the internet. Actually I would describe it as a niche with about some thousand participating people by vague estimation. But it is fun and it is live. Now some services already are going a step further and enable live mobile broadcasts from a mobile phone and to mobile phones.

At the web there is Kyte.tv. They got a complete solution to broadcast to the web, a software to broadcast from a mobile phone and a mobile website at mobile.kyte.tv. They also offer complete business solutions for other websites at Kyte.com. BlogTV.com is another personal broadcasting service at the web. They do stream to mobile phones at m.blogtv.com, which is in beta now.

And there are some software solutions for mobile broadcasting, ComVu PocketCaster and qik. The pocketcaster software enables to stream to own pages and to post videos to blogs and video sharing sites. The qik service is in a alpha and invite only status, as mentioned at their faq. Check the homepage for more.

This is great stuff for fun and shows and it enables everyone with a smartphone to become a citizen journalist and live reporter for whatever events.

Do you like it? Here is a link to further personal broadcasting and user generated media services.