mobMMS update blog

Just a blog for keeping users of www.mobMMS.com up to date with all the latest news and changes.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

URGENT - site goes offline for server change 22nd Feb!!

Due to a complete lack of space on our current server, we're changing hosts. This has happened sooner than expected, hence the lack of warning. The site will go offline sometime on 22nd Feb and I've no idea when it'll be back up, but hopefully as quickly as possible. I'll need to set up the new server and upload all the content so it could take a day or two at a very rough guess.

Apologies for this - I'll see if I can get the url to redirect to this post during the down time to keep you all up to date. Otherwise, please bare with us for a few days!

Thanks

(ps spread the word if possible to others)

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Bit of a design tweak!

As you'll hopefully have noticed by now, I've given the site a little bit of a tweak in terms of the design, and added a little bit more colour to it rather the the pure grayscale theme I was using previously. Gone is the starburst background, now replaced by dangling stars instead, and the control panel is a bit more homely with a wallpaper effect!

Feedback - good or bad, as always, is welcome! Either post it up here, or on our forum

Monday, December 10, 2007

Important info!

Please take a look at this post in our forum for some important news regarding the site! We need your feedback on it!

Friday, March 02, 2007

Earn money from your photos and videos on mobMMS!

Yes, that's right - the WAP site is going live as I type this, and along with it is a brand new feature, the ability to earn some real-life cash with your mobMMS postings! :-D

Here's the theory:

You send a photo or video in to mobMMS, and as long as you've send it using your unique email address which links it in with your account, you will see a new panel in the left-hand column like the one in the image below:



You can then set the price in terms of credits for each image or video in your collection. Currently, each 1 credit costs the downloader 10p, but this may change (I'll make sure it's kept up to date somewhere).
The site tries to suggest a best-fit price for your content, and suggests it. But of course, you can set your pricing to whatever you want, up to a max of 15 credits (£1.50).

Should you not want to include your content in this scheme, you just click on the "deny" button and it will no longer be downloadable. Naturally, private or deleted stuff isn't available for download either (unless you've added people to the private allow-list who then try to download it). You can re-include it in the downloads, or deny it from the downloads whenever you wish.

Once someone had downloaded an item of yours via the WAP site, your account gets the credit added to your balance. This balance then gets converted to cash once you reach a threshold level (still in negotiation, but we guess around £10), and you can withdraw it to your PayPal or NOCHEX account.

Sounds good? Well only downside is that a large %age is taken out by the networks just for them allowing us to do this payment stuff :'-( This is about 50-60% of each payment. Plus we need to take a wee bit out to actually keep the site alive as all this is costing a pretty penny I tell thee! But whatever is left after the networks steal their amount from it, you can guarantee it'll be a fair %age. I can't give figures just yet as we need to confirm these percentages with the network and billing provider, but I'll let you all know ASAP.

Naturally, you'll be accumulating credits on your account as soon as the billing system goes live on the WAP site. You'll also be able to track in real-time what people are downloading from you and what your mobMMS credit balance is (http://www.mobmms.com/info/stats/ currently), so if one image or video is more popular than others, you can tell that from the stats and make more of them!

As always, this is work in progress, and we'll be giving everyone using the WAP site for the first time 15 free credits just to give it a whirl, so all stats will be reset once these have expired and the billing system goes live properly. I also need a little more time to polish off the user stat-tracking page, but that'll be finished pretty soon hopefully. But the most important thing at the moment is getting the WAP site up and running otherwise you won't be able to earn anything at all!

Post any feedback or questions up here and I'll try and answer them as this isn't the clearest of posts. I'll be putting up proper pages and explanations for this all on the main site later, just want people to know why random new panels are popping up all over the place!

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Rotation of images!

It's another new feature! Although I added this a while back just haven't gotten round to adding an update on it...

Basically, if you've taken a photo the wrong way round with your phone - there's now no need to worry, as they can be rotated so they're the correct way up once you've uploaded them to the site - amazing!

Just keep an eye out for the buttons with the rotate left and rotate right icons to do the magic!

Make sure you send the pics in using your own special email addresses displayed once logged in, otherwise these options won't be available to you.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

QR Code beta-testing

Well first Happy New Year everyone!

Now, new year = new features - first one being the addition of QR codes, and will stay...if it works! ;-)

Basically a QR code is like a barcode you see on food items, except instead of being scanned at the checkout and telling you the price, it's scanned by your camera phone and takes you to the mobile version of the site, where you can download a copy of the image or video to your phone.

Some phones come with software pre-installed for scanning these QR codes, others you need to download some software to get it working.

If your phone does not have the software pre-installed, go to http://reader.kaywa.com/getit to download it if your handset is supported.

This is an example of a QR code:
QR Code example

Scanning that with your QR-enabled phone should take you to the mobile version of this page - give it a try!


So, what's the point?
Well, just a bit of fun really! Plus it saves you having to type in the url by hand, and eventually if it works well I'll be adding a load of easy-access features using it as a shortcut :-)

If you give it a try, please post in the comments section here and let me know how it went!

Monday, December 18, 2006

mobMMS WAP - MMS on your mobile!

Wanted to be able to view all the juicy content over on mobMMS wherever you and your mobile are?! Well, soon you'll be able to! :-D

It's a bit silly for a mobile phone MMS site not to have a WAP site designed specifically for phone access, and whilst we did have a WAP site up, it was rather...basic! Plus you couldn't access any of the adult stuff on it.

So we locked ourselves away and are just about ready to unleash mobMMS Mobile onto the unsuspecting world!

Think the proper mobMMS site...just smaller! You'll be able to view images, videos, write/view comments, view latest comments, send/receive personal messages, and so on all from your phone!

And being mobMMS, we try to make sure the experience for the end user (that's you!) is optimal...so all images are resized automatically to best fit your mobile phone screen, thus leading to quicker loading time and better visibility of photos :)

"I've got a really ancient fossil of a phone which only supports WAP 1, not this new-fangled WAP2 magic", I hear you say!
Fear not my friends, for our site will automagically detect the best WAP version your phone supports and dish up the right content accordingly - whether that's WAP1 or WAP2!

"I've got a REALLY ancient fossil of a phone which dates back to the dark ages and not only supports WAP 1, but doesn't even have a colour screen!", I hear someone hanging their head in shame at the back say...

Don't even worry about that - our site will still dish up the right stuff for you, and images will be in the oh-so-retro .wbmp format (i.e. black and white). Although why on earth you'd want to is beyond me...but who am I to judge?! ;-)

Now...all this techo-stuff sounds great in theory...but in practice it's a whooole different matter. So that's why I'm posting this - to get beta testers!

If you fancy a sneak preview before everyone else and want to help give it a test run, drop aleco a PM and he'll get back to you with how to access the sparkling new WAP site! :-D