In the course of my research on the current use of mobile posting (and through the informed suggestion of a friend of mine, Yonatan) I discovered an interesting applicaion a few weeks ago that apparently was just released today The actual phone, the Helio Hero, was created by a Korean company Pantech, with the selling point of being a high-end multimedia device allowing users to commiunicate and post images to myspace using a proprietary software application. The actual service plan is a joint venture between SK Telecom and Earthlink. But before myspace addicts get excited, look at the coverage area.

While this idea may seem initially to be trivial and not particularily exciting to those with higher goals for mobile communication (as a side note, they are currently not supporting video posting, which may have something to do with myspace's poor handling of user generated video content in general), the all-in membership plan seems quite competitive, escpecially for a start-up company with no users. The real question is, will anyone use this and is it relevant if they do. A very good point was made by Dennis Crowley, founder of dodgeball in my dynamic web development class a couple weeks ago. In discussing their creation of the dodgeball website, he made a comment that the reason they were able to rely on the fact that people would understand the concept of aggregating friends together online was because of general familiarity with friendster. I believe that the current structure and use of myspace is not conducive to anything particularily interesting occuring as it relates to mobile posting. But as the second most visited site on the web, If myspace users do in fact utilize this platform it could certainly increase familiarity, which perhaps makes it a relevant thing to watch. I'd like to see what happens.