Sharing Content on Mobiles
Rating Lightly toasted.
by Rob Knight
You know I remember a couple of phrases from the .com era - another one bites the dust and content is king. Two new services that are all about content caught my eye this week, Wattpad and Mosh from Nokia.
Wattpad is a sort of YouTube for text. Users upload any text they want, stories, poems, quotes, travel info etc and you download these straight into you phone via the Wattpad Reader application which is available for free download. In the same way as any sharing site you are relying on the quality of the content. The top 3 downloads of all time (to date) have been Funny Love & Relationships Quotes, 50 Funniest Homer Simpson Quotes and The World As I See It by Albert Einstein. You can pass these to your friends either from the website via SMS and Email or directly form the Wattpad application on your phone via SMS. Frankly, seeing that they seem to have complete text copies of the Harry Potter novels I wonder how long before they get issued with their first writ from Bloomsbury? As others have found out just saying it wasn’t us holds little defence in the eyes of lawyers.
Mosh Beta is from Nokia. They describe it as "a content sharing site where community members upload, distribute and
manage content to be viewed and enjoyed on mobile devices. With MOSH,
anything from applications like mobile games, to videos, blogs, songs
or photos are now accessible and distributable on your mobile device" There are 3 main components, the website, a mobile website and an application that sits on your mobile which you can use for quick access to content. As a user you get rated on your status as a collector, creator and sharer. As usual with these type of sites most of the images uploaded, loved and downloaded consisted of cars and girls!
That aside this really is the start of these P2P type sites. As DATA plans become flat rate this is an expanding area but this is still the barrier to entry at the moment as operators struggle with the whole bandwidth issue. The market for these sites are teenagers and how many of them have flat rate data plans??
Do I want to read quotes from the Simpson’s on my phone? well not personally. Do I want to download pics of cars and girls to my phone? - hmm again not for me thanks, my blackberry is already full of those. These are early days though and I can see application developers and content creators giving away free content on these sites to drive revenue to bigger services and paid content, as they say - Watch this space!
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