Phil does it again! Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine met Phil J. Kaplan, the founder of FuckedCompany.com, the famous unofficial DOTCOM-newssite: "A Better Use for Camera Phones".
Wait - does this title sound portentously to you or entertaining? The Next Bad Thing?
Kaplan of course describes himself as an entrepreneur.
"His newest enterprise, Mobog, which is more or less a traveling Web cam site. Once again Kaplan seems poised to tap into the seemingly ephemeral zeitgeist of the Web and new technology.
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The genius of Mobog is that it allows anyone with a camera phone to take pictures wherever they are or whatever they're doing, mail them to pics@mobog.com using their phone, and have them appear on the Mobog home page minutes later. Visitors to the site can comment on these pictures and if the user registers with the site, the comments are delivered immediately to the cell phone where the picture originated. The registered cell phone owner can then reply to those messages.
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Kaplan believes that Mobog is an answer to the question about what folks can do with their camera phones.
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What [it] doesn't do, though, is filter out profanity or even pornography. During our interview, one user mailed a photo of his girlfriend's naked behind where he had written a message.
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During our meeting, Kaplan demonstrated Mobog for me. He had me take a photo of him with his camera phone. He held up his middle finger (purposely making the image provocative so other users would respond). Within a couple of minutes the photo appeared on the site, and a minute or so after that Kaplan began receiving responses on his phone. He responded to those messages—again using his phone—and those responses appeared under the other notes a minute or two later. It was a real-time conversation about his photo with a half dozen people scattered around the world."
[Get the full article "A Better Use for Camera Phones"]
Can´t believe it. The moment I went to look at Moblog there´s another photo of another lady, um, from behind. Is this going to be a second PudTV which belongs to Kaplan showing girlies in various stages of undress ? Instead of taking revenge upon your boss by writing in FuckedCompany.com now by picture phoning him/his wife in somehow private situations and transfering the results to Moblog? "Revenge is mine"? Silicon Alley Reporter and founder of Venture Reporter and Weblogs Inc. Jason Calacanis comments: "Be prepared for some adult snapshots if you visit the site… anonymity has it’s downside (or upside depending on what you’re into I guess)." Jeff Jarvis calls it "anonymous instant photophone moblogging".
However, this time Kaplan is facing competition of: Joi Ito, said to be the first moblogger of the world, Webshots and Moblog.nl.
