Umundo
While doing some research into user interface desgn, Yonatan found yet another site that supports mobile posting, and as he said 'feeds the myspace beast', umundo. I went to check it out, despite the terrible name. It seems like this is yet another example of a 'get-the-code' site, in the tradition of photobucket.com, that allows you to send mobile video and photographs to a specific email address and then share them with google, yahoo or myspace. It is interesting that they are focusing only and specifically on mobile media, which may attract some users. But they are simply a platform to share your stuff with other sites rather then a place, like flickr or youtube, to actually view and find media. I expect that a bunch of sites like this will start popping up. To me, though, it seems rather silly to create such a platform in this way because as a user I would still have to go home, get on my computer and copy the code to put the media on myspace or click to share it on google, yahoo or whatever. Not very smart.
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I am afraid you misunderstood a bit how Umundo works. Once you insert it to MySpace or Yahoo or iTunes all new videos will arrive there automatically. So you do it once from PC and then post from mobile phone all you want without going back to PC again.
Another difference from 'get-the-code' sites is that for sites which support RSS (like Yahoo, Google) user do not copy-paste code but subscribes to RSS feed. We have to go "copy/paste" way for MySpace because they do not suport incoming RSS feeds and do not have any kind of APIs.
So in general, Umundo converts your mobile videos and photograps to RSS feed (video podcast) optimizing media files on the way. Flash player you see on MySpace using this very feed to get new videos.
Vadim
Posted by: Vadim | July 27, 2006 12:46 PM
ahhh...I see. so it is more like abazab then I thought, except it supports RSS. Sorry if I misunderstood the purpose.
Posted by: cat | July 27, 2006 02:05 PM