Archive for June 22nd, 2007

Kablog mobile blogging test

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I found it rather appalling that kablog was going to cost me money. And the idea of downloading via Handango, i.e. Registering via the mobile web, just wasn’t for me.

Luckily I found the J2ME version, which is open source based and hosted on sourceforge. Initial thoughts? The software can use a lot of improvements, i.e. To become more user friendly. Its been so long since I entered HTML tags into my regular blog posts (Circa pre-2004, when I was writing a html journal).

What, no category support? We all know the xmlrpc interface supports it… Can’t seem to load images off the memory card either… Maybe image blogging is best done via an app like ShoZu, which has Flickr integration. YouTube too, so video recording is something on my to play list.

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Too many INBOXes

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Have you noticed how we’re getting more and more INBOXes? Every damn Web service you sign-up builds messaging into it. The messaging system usually comes with some form of notification that lands in your email INBOX. And it most certainly always will make you visit the website to read the message.

Facebook is half-way there. They already set Reply-To correctly. They just refuse to paste the message in the notification. Flickr is also half-way there - they paste the message in the notification email, but to reply, you need to get to their web interface. Though within some of my archives, they’ve set Reply-To correctly (making Flickr, get it; now you deal with the duplicate on your web inbox…). Twitter sends the contents of direct messages via email entirely, and to reply, you’ve got to use the Twitter interface (though in this sense, I guess there’s some usefulness in it).

Its not only messaging that some provide. You might get comments to approve, or someone might “write on your wall”. Or a “shout” (on last.fm). Sites like last.fm for me are so passively used, that having an Inbox there is really silly.

Ideally, I’d deal with everything via email. Full contents of the message, with reply-to set sensibly. But I guess this doesn’t suit the modern crowd’s workflow, who login to Facebook, or Friendster or the social-networking-hype-du-jour on a daily basis?

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