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Wednesday, January 8

Dawn of the Phoneblog [WebTech]

Today sees the launch of an innovative system called FoneBlog from Newbay Software, to combine weblogs and camera-phones to allow people to maintain blogs automatically on the move - snap, type and send and you've recorded the moment, 'A Website for every mobile phone' as they say.

It's harder than it sounds - yes, setting it up for one person with Moveable Type or something might seem easy, but scaling it as a service for hundreds of thousands of customers is more of a challenge, as us customers of Pyra know all too well. For those interested, it all sprang from conversations Sean and I enthusiastically had during my visits to Propylon in Dublin last year, which Paddy Holahan observed with growing enthusiasm. As Sean says in his blog, "Now things get really interesting..."

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