6 Applications to post on Blogger Blog from Android Phones

I love my Android based HTC Incredible. Actually, it is the first mobile phone I really love. More and more functions, unthinkable for being performed through mobile phone can be done fast and efficiently now. It is time for me to think about convenient mobile blogging agent to be able post from the road to my blogs. In search for the suitable client I came to several utilities on the market I would like to share with you:

1. Blogaway for Android is a simple blogger client for your Android phone that helps you blog on the go. Blogaway works with blogs hosted on Blogger (the next Beta client is developed to support Wordpress blogs as well). Blogaway supports almost everything that you need to post a simple blog with images, links and videos. It works with blogs hosted on blogspot as well as on custom domains. You can also read blogs of your favorite authors’ right from inside Blogaway.

Here are a few features that make Blogaway a great blogging tool for your mobile. And we are continuously adding more.

- Multiple accounts/blogs support.
- Posts with images (single), videos(single), links, tags etc.
- Add your favorite blogs to Blogaway.
- Read/post comments on blogs.
- Share your post's URL through multiple channels.
- Geotag your posts.

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/blogawaysupport/home

My rating: 4 of 5.

2. AndroBlogger is very basic Blogger authoring client to read, post to and comment on blogs based on Blogger engine. Recently more features were added, making the utility more useful, such as pictures (as URL only), text formatting, rich preview, etc. Most international encodings are now supported.

Website: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-sadko-androblogger-jiAi.aspx

My rating: 2.5 of 5

3. Bloggeroid is a small application (about 50KB), which can help you blog on Blogger blogs "attached" to any of your Google Accounts. You may upload many pictures, and you decide where in your posts those images will be placed. You may use also some kind of "wikisyntax", so when you will wrote **bold** in the result you will have word bold in bold, for __italic__ it will be italic. You can edit existing posts, and you can choose if this should be edited in HTML or in this "wikisyntax".

Website: http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/pl.przemelek.android.blogger/Bloggeroid

My rating: 3.5 of 5

4. Blogger-Droid is a simple Blogger client, allowing to create/view/edit/delete blog posts on Blogger Blog. You can also post comments to published blog posts, upload picture(s) and video(s). So, with this application you can easily share pictures, videos, YouTube clips, links etc.

Website: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/social/bloggerdroid_hikk.html

My rating: 4 of 5

5. I am Blogger is a lightweight application with limited functionality that allows keep your travel status in Twitter and Blogger's blog. You can send tweets and short blog records with your location and photo.

Website: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-mblog-activites-iCAn.aspx

My rating: 2 of 5

6. Moby is a multi-platform utility, allows its users to share photos, videos, audio and text from their Android based phones with your friends, family and contacts on all the major social networking sites and services.  Moby distributes to more than 25 sites and services including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Netlog, and many more.

Website: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-mobypicture-android-qDjp.aspx

My rating: 3.5 of 5

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How you can post to your Blogger Blog via email?

Let’s face it: posting via email to your Blogger blog might not be the most convenient way of updating your blog. However, you can think about different situations, when this feature would be useful. For example you cannot access your Blogger account for some reason, or your favorite third party posting application has crashed, or you are on the go, and your phone does not have the data package or necessary feature to make mobile posts. Anyway, be aware that there is a simple method of doing it by sending email message.

The task can be divided in two parts:

1. Registering you email account for posting on you blog.

By default this email posting feature is turned off on all new blogs but if you want to enable this you need to follow the instructions given below.

·         Login to blogger.com and choose the blog (if you have multiple blogs in your account) for which you want to enable email posting.

·         Click on small envelope icon beside blog's title. See image given below:

·         On a pop-up set a secret word of your choice. See image given below:

·         Now Click on the Save Button, After setting up a secret word would make an email address like this:

YourUserName.YourSecretWord.blogger.com

Keep the email address secret as this would be a public email address and anyone from anywhere is able to send an email automatically publishing it to your blog.  Keep it in safe place on your records or just remember it.

Be sure to specify whether or not you prefer your email posts to publish automatically. If this option is not checked, then your posts will be saved on your account but will not appear on your blog until you log in to Blogger.com and publish them yourself.

Alternatively, in Settings | Email you can create a Mail-to-Blogger address which you will use to send posts via email to your blog:

  

     2.      Publishing to your blog via email message.

•      Create a new email from any email address.
•      Add your secret email address of your blog in recipient's address box.
•      Put in meaningful Subject because that would be the title of the post.
•      Write the text in the email body and that would be the text of the post. You can also attach images in your posts by attaching the images in email as attachments.
•      Sometimes email programs append text to the bottom of each sent message; to make sure this garbage doesn't get posted to your blog, put #end at the end of your post.

Notes:

There are two formats that emails generally use: plain text and HTML. Many email clients will have an option to switch between the two modes. Here's what happens when you use either of these formats in Mail-to-Blogger:

Plain Text: Everything is published on your blog exactly as you type it. That is, entering <strong> in your post will not make text bold. The <> brackets will be escaped and your published blog will actually display <strong> as text.

HTML: All HTML is interpreted as HTML. If you use your email client's formatting functions to make text bold, you may not see the <strong> tag, but it will be included in your post and the text will appear bold on your blog. If you want to enter code manually, you may need to use an "edit source code" mode or something similar in your email client.

Sources and Additional Information:

http://www.geekblogger.org/2010/02/make-post-via-email-in-blogger.html

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42466

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41452

http://www.joedolson.com/blogger/

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One Click Live Mobile Blogging

Mobile blogging became a modern reality, and all the related accessories, applications, and services, are getting enormous attention from the blogging community. Today, we present CellSpin - a one-click live mobile blogging application for video, voice, photo, text blogging, supporting several Social Networking Sites. First, we mentioned the application last June, but since its applicability grew significantly in terms of the supported sites and supported mobile gadgets.


Description:
CellSpin is a FREE and easy to use mobile blogging application that lets you blog photos, audio, video, and text from your phone to popular blogging and social networking communities.

Supported Sites:

• MySpace,
  
• Facebook,
  
• Google Blogger,
  
• WordPress,
  
• YouTube,
  
• Flickr,
  
• Picasa
  
• Live Journal,
  
• Live Spaces,
  
• Typepad,
  
• Twitter,
  
• Pownce, and
  
• eBay.

To use CellSpin, you must visit their website http://www.cellspin.net and create a free account.

Things you can do with CellSpin:

• Voice blogging
  
• Photo blogging
  
• Text blogging
  
• Video blogging
  
• Use CellSpin as a voice notes application
  
• Use the Select Media button to select and post pre-existing media from your phone
  
• Use MySpace and Facebook MoBlog applications from CellSpin
  
• Record an audio conversation and embarrass your friends
  
• Securely post audio, photos, video, and text to live eBay auctions
  
• Podcast with the click of a button
  
• Record voice meeting minutes and post them to a blog
  
• Share media on CellSpin community blogs ("clogs") on various discussion topics
  
• Record and post live events to blogs or clogs, becoming an on-the-scene journalist
  
• Create your own novel, fun, profitable uses...
  

Supported phones:
http://www.cellspin.net/phones/

Customer feedback:
Kenny from Odblog tested the application in the field, and he provides the following feedback. The pictures are more impressive than the standard blogger uploads as you get a larger image without having to play around with the html. The image is also automatically rotated. The text appears nicely beneath the picture as the entries are grouped by date, and I also managed to send a status update to twitter through it too. I’m thinking this would be a great way to record a trip using different media types videos for peer assessment, audio to analyze geographical description, text as a field logbook, 140 characters to summarize key features of a field location and photos to evaluate field sketches. My only gripe would be that the application seems to stay open permanently. This might just be a phone bug or it might be me being tech incompetent!

Download (for Blackberry):
http://www.blackberrytoday.com/software/files/CellSpin.zip

Screen shots from the Website (Click to Enlarge):

CellSpin

CellSpin

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Mobilizing your Blog with Feed-Mate

FeedM8 (feed-mate) is a whole new way to enjoy mobile web browsing. You can now get your favorite blogs or feed-enabled websites on your mobile device in the good manner. This means you get all the popular sites, top news, social networks, sports, celebrity and weather updates all on your mobile phone anytime and anywhere. The content is designed for your mobile phone and it is optimized for mobile access, so it is fast and uses smart data transfer technique and little device resources.

There are a few ways to get started with FeedM8 as a feed reader.
1) Go to m.feedm8.com on your phone’s browser. Shortcuts are accepted for fast search. Simply choose from the top picks under "CHK IT OUT" or type what you’re looking for in "WRU L%KN 4?" (i.e. What are you looking for?)
2) Go to www.feedm8.com on your desktop PC. Choose one of the featured websites or enter your own. Type in your phone number when prompted and you will receive a FeedM8 link by SMS.
3) Add the button “My Mobile” (presented on the developer’s web site) to your bookmarks as follows, depending on your browser type:

- Internet Explorer: Right-click the button, and choose "Add to favorites."
- Firefox: Drag the button above into your Bookmarks Toolbar
- Opera: Right-click the button above, choose "Bookmark Link"

To send a website you’re browsing to you mobile, click the "Send to My Mobile" shortcut you’ve just added.

Currently the following operators are supported in US and Canada:
US - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Alltel, Metro PCS, Helio
Canada - Rogers, Bell, Fido, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Sasktel, MTS

Developers Web site: http://www.feedm8.com/web/faq_reader

The following detailed video tutorial will instruct you on how to prepare your and configure your blog to use the FeedM8 features, allowing readers to access it with ease on their iPhone, PDA or cell phones.

Mobilizing your Blog

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Create Free Mobile Version of your Blog and Monetize it with MoFuse

Using smartphones and other mobile devices for Internet search is new and growing trend of the Modern World. Blogosphere is adopting quickly, and there are multiple opportunities for the bloggers to create specific mobile versions for their blogs to make easier for readers to access the data and improve readability. The new service MoFuse is offering free and nice solution for all blog owners to bring their blogs to the portable media in the suitable format. Authors claim that it is not the only reason for opening your account at MoFuse. They list some additional points, that at some extent interacts each other and make this effort more valuable:

• Making your readers happy... People want to read your blog on the go!
• Getting new readers... MoFuse will help to promote your mobile blog which will increase traffic.
• Making some money... Mobile ads will provide you with an additional revenue channel from your blog!
• Getting smarter... Our analytics let you see information about your mobile visitors.
• Getting going... More and more of your readers will want your content on their mobile devices!

Signing up to MoFuse is incredibly easy. All you need to do is enter your email and a password and you’re good to go. Creation of 5 mobile blogs and adding mobile badges to them took no more than 10 minutes of my time.

The dashboard is very easy to navigate and the FAQ is pretty good. The first thing you need to do is add your blog feed. All you need to do is add your blog URL and decide what mofuse domain you want (for this blog, I chose a nice address http://blogging.mofuse.mobi/). It’s possible to change this name at a later date as long as the keyword hasn’t been taken away.
After establishing your mobile site, make additional step to monetize it through our revenue sharing program. MoFuse splits the revenue 50/50 with blog owner. All you need to do to enroll is choose which mobile advertising program you want to use on your MoFuse mobile site and enter your ID (I would stick to Google AdSense).

Mobilizing your Blog with MoFuse

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CellSpin Adds Palm OS to List of Supported Mobile Operating Systems

Blogging itself is not a very old and established trend, but it looks much more mature in comparison with mobile blogging (so called moblogging). Yes, mobile blogging is spreading around, getting attention of the software developers. Cellspin Soft, Inc. provides a free, one-click GUI-based mobile application for capturing images, audio, video and text, and publishing them to a user’s favorite community site. This could be a blogging, social networking, and photo sharing or auction service. Among the supported sites are MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal, Live Spaces and eBay.

Until recently, the software was available for the following mobile operating systems: Symbian, Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 6.0, and Blackberry. As of yesterday, CellSpin added Palm OS to the list. Overall, the software is now available on more than 300 mobile phone models worldwide.

Bobby Gurvinder Singh, chief executive officer and co-founder of CellSpin, said "The affordable Palm Centro smartphone has become very popular, and now with CellSpin Palm OS application users can stay connected, blog and micro-blog on leading social networks with just one click. CellSpin is about combining Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 technologies and giving end-users a seamless and easy Internet 3.0 experience."

Company announced that more operating systems will be supported soon. I guess, its time to connect iPhone OS and Android…

Application is very user-friendly and limits the mobile phone operation need for this application by several clicks. Review the company video presentation at Demo 08 Conference in January 2008 (http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124662.html)

CellSpin Presentation at Demo 2008

Additional Reading:

http://www.intomobile.com/2008/06/23/cellspin-brings-mobile-blogging-to-palm-os-audio-video-pictures-and-text-posting-with-ease.html

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/24/cellspin-adds-palm-its-mobile-blogging-platform

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