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Umundo revisted

Okay, so perhaps in my haste to dismiss this site as yet another 'send us your media and we'll put it somewhere exciting' platform I neglected to fully understand what they are trying to do. Perhaps this is partly because when I tried to register, they would not accept either of my phone numbers (Nextel/Sprint or Cingular) and gave no explanation as to why. In any case, apparently, the point is that you DO not have to visit your PC everytime you send media but rather set up your account to transfer your data via RSS to itunes, google or yahoo. This is definitely a little more interesting then I had thought. The code copying is simply for myspace users because myspace does not have an API (of course they don't). I think all I can say in addition is that umundo should be aware that many users might very well use this site for 'code-copying'. And while I can definitely see the potential in having mobile video automatically turned into video pod-casts, i am wondering why they chose to communicate with other sites rather then fully develop their own platform. Yes, nobody wants to reinvent the wheel. But why would I not just use flickr for my photographs (available via RSS) and youtube for my mobile video. If I could sign in maybe I could figure out a seperate purpose. I think for many it will be myspace code hacking but I could be wrong.

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