What is true for Mailinator, is probably true for every software:

More proof that great UI design is done by taking away, not adding things.

Via Joel on Software

First you need a GPRS enabled phone.#

• Picture
  1. Take a picture
  2. Options => Send => Via e-mail
• Email Address/Subject
  1. To: username@subdomain.kaywa.com*
  2. Subject: Title of your photo
• Password/Category or Gallery
  1. Add the password on the first line (body text)
  2. Add a colon - ":" -, immediately after your password
  3. Add the shortcut of your category or gallery
• Send
  1. Options => Send

Example:

To: username@subdomain.kaywa.com*
Cc:
Subject: Me at Street Parade

password:me

Tips:

• To get a good picture quality: Sending Options => Image size => Large
• If you don't want to type your email address again and again. Make a "New Contact" under "Contacts first. If you then send your picture you can use: Options => Add Recipient => Choose Name
• You can use Templates, to make your life much easier. Go to "Messaging", "My folders", "Templates". Then Options => New Template. Now you can write your password:category combination. Next time you don't have to type the "password:category", you just select it: Options => Insert => Template => Select template.

# See MMS/GPRS Configuration in Switzerland

* This is just a dummy email address. Use the one which is created for you or as in the case of the Eventblog, use event at kaywa.ch.

Deutsche Version (German Version).

If you want to moblog, respectively to send pictures to your blog with your mobile phone, your mobile has to be configured for Multimedia Messages (MMS) and/or Email (via GPRS).

To configure your mobile for MMS and Email, you go to your local telco - in Switzerland that would be Swisscom, Orange or Sunrise. Normally they send you back an SMS with all the configurations on it.

If you are new to this stuff, you probably better call the hotline and you tell them that you want both - MMS and Email via GPRS.

We suggest to use Email and not MMS, as after our tests the picture quality of pictures sent via Email compared to pictures sent as MMS is by far superior. MMS seems to compress the picture once again which gives you these "jaggy" pictures.


SWISSCOM
MMS Konfigurator
GPRS
Hotline: 0800 55 64 64

ORANGE
MMS/WAP Konfigurator
Hotline: 0800 700 700

SUNRISE
MMS/E-Mail/WAP Konfigurator
Hotline: 0800 22 44 22

PS: More about GPRS from Russell Beattie

Howard Rheingold, the author of Smart Mobs didn't attend the International Moblogging Conference in Tokyo, instead he wrote the following article:
Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism

Moblogging is at a convergence of technical capabilities with the insatiable human thirst for new ways to learn, create, and communicate, and the political necessity for a truly effective peer-to-peer journalism as a counter to "disinfotainment" cartels.

See also: Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing

By Photocolor Kreuzlingen

The worldwide camera phone market:
165 million camera phones in 2006



Image from a spring 2003 analyst briefing by Tony Thornley, president and chief operating officer at Qualcomm

As Alan Reiter points out, there are other forecasts which are a bit less optimistic. Anyway, even 37 million, instead of 60 million in 2003 are quite a lot. He ends this post with the japanese example which is mind... blowing: "But Japan blows away all the other countries with its 20 million camera phone users and the selection of handsets, including 1.3 megapixel devices."

Via John Hiler's "Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem"

See also, somewhat unrelated:
Nob's Moblog with location maps. Joi was the first to show me that new feature for moblogging.

Via Schee

It won't be long, said Holahan, before "some globally significant event will be reported by an amateur camera phone blogger who takes a picture, provides a comment and publishes it to their personal phoneblog before professional reporters can do so."

The Online Journalism Review wrote an article about the impact of mobile publishing. Well worth a read.

Yes, we made it!

I had a good cigar (Cohiba) directly imported from Cuba, sponsored by oos, to celebrate the late night event.

Check it out! If you have any suggestions, please let us know. Send an email to contact@kaywa.com. Our next step is a moblogging feast during the Street Parade on August 9.

Thanks to all who worked on it!

Today at 11:00 a.m. KAYWA was officially founded. See some pictures here, there and over there.