Moblogging the First International Moblogging Conference. A live moblog from the conference. [Joi Ito's Web Lite] 
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Sony Image Station with MetaWeblog API. Hirata just demo'ed an experiment we did with Sony. It's a moblog gateway. It receives email from a cell phone with a photo attached. The Sony team made an XML RPC metaWeblog API interface to Sony Image Station. We take the picture, talk to Sony Image Station using metaWeblog API and post the picture in a photo album. Then the gateway talks to Movable Type using the metaWeblog API to create an entry with the thumbnail from Image Station that clicks thru to the full picture on the Image Station site. The text and the title get entered into Movable Type and the category is pre-set. We are using the metaWeblog.newMediaObject (which Movable Type current supports) to send the images. Please support this standard so photo sites can use the API.

We'll continue doing tests with the research group and hope to do some syndication stuff soon. ;-) This is not a product and is really just an experiment. I'm hoping more and more groups in Sony start looking at the open standards and that the open standards people start thinking photos, video and audio as micro-content. Totsuka-san from Sony CSL had an interesting comment today. He said that pictures are attached to email as second class citizens and the text is still the core of the data. I think the idea is to try to get multi-media micro-content to be more important. ;-)

PS I don't have a URL for this since we have only received an OK to demo it at the conference. Stay tuned. [Joi Ito's Web Lite] 
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Weblog als Marke. Das LenzBlog zur Weblog AG (wir berichteten [1] [2]): »Diese deutsche Firma hat "Weblog" in Europa als Marke registriert, worauf in Reaktion auf meinen Bericht gestern Michael Heng hinweist. Diese Marke ist zu einem Zeitpunkt eingetragen worden, als die weite Verbreitung von Weblogs noch nicht absehbar war. Die Firma Weblog AG ist auch nicht auf dem Gebiet von Weblogs tätig. Vielmehr vermute ich, daß sich diese Marke als Abkürzung für "Web-Logistik" versteht. Damit handelt es sich anders als bei der japanischen Anmeldung nicht um einen Versuch, sich Eigentumsrechte an einem weit verbreiteten Wort anzumaßen, sondern um eine jedenfalls zum damaligen Zeitpunkt völlig legitime Anmeldung.« [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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"BlogChatter" [Daypop Top 40] 
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AOL Journals: Wide Open Orgy.

Read all about it from the Buzzmachine himself, Jeff Jarvis.  This is bigger than Google's Pyra buyout.  It means Prime Time.  Yeah, baby.  Now the feature war begins, tools and services available to bloggers within their own communities and alliances.  While the 'old folks' continue their squabbles, the neighborhood will be flooded with people who don't know nor care about the A-list.  Bring along a swimsuit and take a leak, er, peek.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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