Comments on: Mobile startups growing: photos, videos, presence detection and storage

By: Vodafone acquires mobile social networking startup ZYB » VentureBeat

Vodafone acquires mobile social networking startup ZYB » VentureBeat — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:26:22 +0000

[...] combines a back-up service for your mobile contact and calendar info with social networking tools that allow you to share the info with your friends. Its service also allows you to send images and [...]

By: Tiny Pictures, creator of Radar mobile photo-sharing service Radar, raises round » VentureBeat

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:48:32 +0000

[...] The company had previously raised $4 million, including money from angel investors Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito (our coverage). [...]

By: VentureBeat » Juice Wireless, offering mobile content sharing, gets more funding

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:51:07 +0000

[...] companies want to corner the market for mobile content, although many of their features differ. We recently covered two companies, Radar and Avot Media, that let mobile users view pictures and video. Seattle-based [...]

By: VentureBeat » Roundup: Invidi funded by WPP, Amazon, Google and more

VentureBeat » Roundup: Invidi funded by WPP, Amazon, Google and more — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:54:06 +0000

[...] device and from the web. It already has 70 percent of its 630,000 total users outside of the US (previous coverage). Now, it is adding French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese WAP versions of its site, [...]

By: R Mendez

R Mendez — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:47:03 +0000

I hate when people don’t appreciate the technology and add stupid comments without knowing or verifying what they’re talking about.

I tried MyCorner.com on my RAZR & it DOESNOT work. looks like some spyware to me – they send you a link with port 8080 (huh!) and redirect you to some unknown page..

The DivX mobile site mentioned in the post DOESNOT open either..

The author of this article must have spent so much time to write about these great startups(Good job).. and few users (due to their personal interests) try to malign them. all the best guys.. You all have great technologies and good vision. The user community is with you..

By: charles

charles — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:35:33 +0000

I can’t use it as I use regular phone, not windows mobile phone, like 95% of the mobile users.

I like MyCorner.com service that works on my phone and claims to work on WM phones. Best of all, it requires no download. They have videos from Google, Metacafe and User submitted.

Mobile web URL is m.mycorner.com.

I have also found DivX mobile media at http://mobilemedia.divx.com with great videos. Check it out.

By: Round-Up: Avatars; Touch Screen Keyboard; Bank Security - Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:57:27 +0000

[...] where people can stream video of themselves live to their friends via their mobile phone. In this article VentureBeat also reports on a bunch of start-ups…Radar, Avot Media, Aka Aki and [...]

By: Marlin

Marlin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:22:09 +0000

Its very sick of 3guppies to post such a comment. I found that they are in some mobile video solution that provides user videos.

Yikes – who wants to see amateur videos. YouTube is big because it has all videos. Not just kiddie videos.

Good job John. All your money on 3Guppies coz they pay your bills.

By: Shanil

Shanil — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:38:29 +0000

This is really cool.. I tried it on my dad’s Moto Q – works like a charm.. I want it on my iPhone When can I get it?

By: John Scrofano

John Scrofano — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:56:35 +0000

Pent up demand is evident in that there is growth here despite that aren’t many good solutions or customer experiences out there, especially in the US. The “last mile” is the primary culprit here – the ability for a company to easily and consistently deliver content to the hundreds of handsets out there across many cell carriers. It seems, to cut through this barrier, you should just build an app to live on the phone. Apps are feasible to build for Symbian and Smart phones, but these phones represent a tiny percentage of handsets in the market (US). Porting apps to reach all the handsets out there is too cumbersome and expensive, not to mention the barrier of getting a user to actually download the app. This leaves you with the dirty work of designing solutions that work without apps, primarily through WAP, SMS, and MMS.

My money is on the services that can offer the user a complete package – easily getting media on to and off of a handset, and being able to view and share that media seamlessly without an app download.

By: Richard Cari

Richard Cari — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:12:05 +0000

I did give AvotMV a try on my Windows Mobile Phone. After running two videos, my phone complained about being out of memory. I could not close the application and the only way to recover was to reboot the phone.

The quality really lacks over here. Mobile applications require a good architecture and problems such as memory leaks and freezes should be resolved there.

By: M Startups

M Startups — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:52:30 +0000

It will be interesting to see how many of these will be around a year later!

Probably none.

By: Lily

Lily — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:39:36 +0000

Interesting…
Funny ad about mobile videos –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xywPkRPO5s4

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:45:29 +0000

I have tried avotmedia solution on my mobile and it works great. I am almost addicted to the application now and as it is mentioned it does have a good video and sound quality. Great work. keep it up guys.