Mobile social media
solutions provider Moblyng announced today the expansion
of its website?s mobile component m.moblyng.com, enabling users to directly
access rich media content such as videos, slide shows and photos hosted on popular
social media sites such as MySpace or YouTube.
The new functionality will
take its place alongside Moblyng?s other features, such as uploading and
sharing slide shows, "Blyngpix", photos and videos to mobile devices
and the web, or sending and receiving"gifts" from the handset and the
web.
Simultaneously, Moblyng has
announced the addition of a new ?mobilize me? button that will be embedded on popular
MySpace profiles such as the Crystal Method, SRC/Universal artist O'Neal
McKnight. This feature allows users to
keep up to date with their favourite profiles at all times through the mobile
web by automatically sending free-to-keep videos, pictures and slideshows to
their mobile phone. This is the
product?s official launching in its definitive version, following a beta phase
that began in May this year and which Moblyng claims to have been patronised by
upwards of 100,000 unique customers.
Moblyng founder and chief
executive officer Stewart Putney interprets these figures as a sign of early
success, describing them as, "a validation that people want to view and
share social media on mobile devices, [that] has allowed us to identify the
most popular categories that people want on their mobile devices?. He further contends that the value of
Moblyng?s approach lies in that, ?[it] allows users to easily watch great
social media content on their mobile devices without downloading any
applications."
Moblyng is a privately held
company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Its technology is currently compatible with 3G,
EDGE, EV-DO, WiFi, and WiMAX networks, as well as with most video or image-capable
mobile phones.