MySpace Finally Supports Mobile Photo Uploads
Short of using a specialized application (or phone) of some sort, users of the social networking service MySpace did not have a way to easily upload photos from their mobile phones directly to their profiles until now. According to a recent entry on the MySpace blog, mobile photo uploads are finally supported. They noted this feature was "a long time coming." Thanks, MySpace...what took you so long?
Mobile Photo Uploads
In order to use the new mobile photo upload feature, you must first log in to your MySpace account on the web to enable the setting. Once there, click on "My Account," then click "Mobile." You should see a section called "Send Photos From Your Phone." From here, you can set a password and MySpace will generate a unique, personalized email address for you to add to your phone's address book. The next time you take a mobile pic, you can just email it to MySpace using this address. The photo will show up in seconds. Unfortunately, there is no way to configure the mobile uploads to go into any particular album - they are all put into your "My Photos" album by default.
MySpace has had a mobile web site available for some time at m.myspace.com where you could interact with many of the service's features. However, there was no option to upload photos from that site.
Blackberry App Coming In "A Few Weeks"
In the comments of the blog post, everyone's friend "Tom" reveals some more news that wasn't mentioned in the original post. In response to a user's comment, Tom confirms that the MySpace Blackberry app announced last month is almost ready. Says Tom, the Blackberry app will be available "in a few weeks." (Wow, that's almost a year after Facebook released theirs!) Why is MySpace so slow to support mobile? Given Facebook's growing popularity, you would think that MySpace would have had these features and apps ages ago.
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I think it's great to finally see MySpace catching up with Facebook for some of these basic features but I wonder if it's too little too late?
If this was October 2005 ( around the time that was made available on Flickr ) I would say hoo ray...
...but seeing as its almost 2009 I say WTF?
Here's the meeting between Tom And Rupert from 2005:
Tom: Mr. Murdock, we have nearly one million requests from user's to let them upload pictures to their MySpace pages.
Rupert: Eh?
Tom: Yeah, and I think its a good idea. Our users are out at parties, clubs, they want to share their experience with their friends...
Rupert: Wadd'l it cost, then mate?
Tom: Storage costs are a concern, but I think we can monitize it by linking it with the camera phone handset makers...
Rupert: Bah, I don't pay you to think. Selling our user's personal data to Viagra and other spammers is a pretty penny on da barby.
Tom: Maybe we should do more than just exploit our user's email address and force them to look at ads for your TV shows...
Rupert: My business sense keeps you light in expensive loafers, so shut it.
Tom: But Mr. Murdock...
Rupert: No photo uploads, no video uploads. We're the only game in town. No need to do anything!
A good news for the mobile users
hey i need myspace
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fucking kiel high should just unblock fucking myspace and facebook!
myspace should get another "code" to get on cuz i neeeeeeed myspace 2 talk to ppl!! and facebook becuase i gotta talk 2 ppl on there too!! dammit they should just unblock everything!! fuckers can die!