Free 'YouTube' Type Service for Mobile Phones

Mobl , which claims to be "the world’s first free mobile video sharing service", launches in the UK today, according to 3G.

"The service enables users to upload video clips that have been filmed using a mobile phone to www.moblr.com where they can be shared with friends, family and the Moblr community. Videos can be accessed and shared anywhere, anytime and for free from a mobile phone.

How does it work?

Upload: A video shot using a mobile phone can easily be published on the Moblr site. Users can either upload the clip directly from their mobile phone or send the clip by MMS or email. The clip can be named and tagged before it goes public so others can search for content easily.

Viewing: All videos can be accessed for free from users’ mobile phones or PCs. Most recently uploaded videos are posted on Moblr’s home page and users can search all videos by category and tag.

The MySpace Generation Expands its Range to Mobile

Teens are expanding their social networks to the mobile realm, according to the latest monthly statistics from m:metrics. The measurement firm found that with 70 percent of 13 to 17-year-olds engaging in social networking or otherwise creating content, Italian teens best their peers in Western Europe and the United States. [via Cellular News]

"Although teenagers and young adults make up only six to 10 percent of mobile subscribers, they generate more than their fair share of mobile content..

Phone-to-phone photo messaging is the most popular category of user-generated content.

Italy ranked first in video messaging, followed by Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States."

Mobile media company for sale now on eBay

Katie Fehrenbacher on GigaOM draws our attention to a mobile media company called Mojungle - which enables users to send camera phone photos and videos to the web - which has put itself up for sale on eBay, with a starting bid at $60,000.

"The Los Angeles-based startup is less than a year old and has bootstrapped itself with just three full time employees. Mojungle CEO Ophir Tanz said they are shooting for at least $250,000 for the sale of the entire company including the technology, the design, and the domain name."

"The move is another sign that the mobile content-sharing space is starting to become over run with startups pitching themselves as “MySpace for mobile,” and mobile social networks", writes Katie.

On User Generated Content And Future Trends

Content Sutra points out a powerful new feature on YouTube that allows users to post video responses to videos.

As of last Sunday, there were 783,938 views and 27 video responses to the video (left) - which has tickled the Internet's collective funny bone.

"User Generated Content (UGC) is going to give large movie studios sleepless nights (if it isn’t already), much like what Wikipedia, Dictionary.com and wordweb must have done to publishers. Nikhil Pahwa thinks UGC is going to beat ‘created for new media’ initiatives by studios.

This anecdote is the introduction to Moco News correspondent Nikhil Pahwa's analysis and trends piece on the rise of user-generated content in India and elsewhere.. and something unique to India and other developing countries.

"For mobile content in India, the floodgates opened with the infamous pornographic MMS that was passed around from phone to phone via Bluetooth - ... it created a huge market for mobile phones with cameras, and more and more people began exchanging photos and videos as a result of it.

The mobile is more potent because one can post immediately, but there are issues of access availability and cost.

A convergent device and a device independent network with mobile access will solve that problem eventually. The real problem, and lots of people trying to figure this out - is how can UGC be monetized."

Friendstribe.com

Friendstribe.com is a mobile social network that works anywhere in the United States, offering the best way to stay in touch with your friends.

Friendstribe.com lets friends know where users are; tag favorite restaurants, clubs and other spots. Upload and share video and pictures from the last party or hot spot, directly from a phone. Friendstribe users can create their own events, invite friends with an invitation directly to their mobile phone and let them RSVP from the phone.

Friendstibe.com was developed by Luxinteract, Inc. a privately held company headquartered in New York, NY, specializing in delivering entertainment and media solutions.

Radar.net for mobile socializing. Pics and videos

Radar.net, a mobile photo sharing application, has just introduced a video version.

As with the main service -- and unlike its rivals -- it's designed for sharing only among a select group of friends -the company is betting that in the long run more people might want to use it for the privacy issues alone.

When you sign up, you get a unique Radar.net email address to send your images to - you can then invite friends to view your pictures and comment on them. You can use Radar on the web, or view the mobile version on your cellphone.

John Poisson, Founder and CEO of Tiny Pictures, says, "Video clips in Radar work just like pictures: shoot a video with your phone and post it to your Radar, where your invited friends can see it and leave comments. Video clips become part of an ongoing visual conversation with your friends."

[reBlogged from Popgadget]

movy.tv: mobile media sharing website

Movidity Inc. has just introduced movy.tv, a mobile video sharing web service.

As with other popular video sharing websites, such as Youtube, movy.tv will allow members to share video/audio media with other Internet users.

movy.tv allows practically anyone to upload and share media with mobile devices worldwide. movy.tv empowers users to mobilize practically any archived or live video/audio content across a wide range of mobile devices.

[via Fierce Mobile Content]

Student Social Net Goes Mobile

Juice Wireless, a company that lets its users post photos, text, and videos to weblogs and Internet profiles, said Tuesday it is teaming up with College Tonight, a new social network that aims to keep college students plugged in to their campus’s social scene. Red Herring reports.

"Members of College Tonight will be able to use Juice Wireless’s networking and mobile content-sharing service, JuiceCaster.