Blogging is moving with the times, as the range of tools for mobile blogging are steadily increasing. Sure, Wordpress (what we use here) and Google’s Blogger remain the main platforms but there are an increasing number of mobile specific tools being developed, including Shozu and WordMobi.
Then let us not forget the all-conquering power of Twitter, which seems to be an unstoppable force at the moment. Can new Twitter client ‘Gravity’ bring it back down to Earth? We take a look at the latest apps being touted in the blog’o’sphere….
Thinking of getting involved with blogging when on the move? We’d suggest taking a look over at The Nokia Blog, which gives a good headsup of the three pieces of software you definitely need on your Nokia if you want to get involved with mobile blogging.
WordMobi has to be The Nokia Blog favourite app, claiming ‘this application is truly a delight to use’ and goes on to explain how to install the two part app, as well as the full support it offers.
WaveLog is one of the older clients but offers support for Blogger, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, YouTube, and Picassa. The app only natively support Nokia N95 devices, so a little trial and error is needed to make it work on other handsets (if at all).
Shozu works well with most of the blogging platforms but as the guys points out ‘Shozu is a great “feeder” of mobile data to all your services, but its not bi-directional’ so you can only send data and not retrieve or edit. Great for filing images but not if you need to post copy in a rush!
It’s not just straight blogging tools that are making an impact, as Twitter clients seem to be the most popular apps being developed for the S60 of late. We first made reference to Gravity, the latest of a number of Twitter clients for S60, a couple of weeks ago when it was still firmly in Beta stage.
The guys over at All About Symbian have got the skinny on the first fully-featured and native Twitter client for the S60 platform. Yup, it supports both 3rd Edition and 5th Edition phones, so is expected to pretty much become the de facto Twitter app.