Tech Shout!

Reliance Communications has just launched Mblog, which is a mobile blogging service which allows customers to share images, videos as well as text on the Internet from their mobile phones. For this new service, reliance Comunications has teamed up with Hyderabad-based mobile content provider, IMI Mobile.

Users can have a buddy list specifically from their phone book, which may include non-Reliance subscribers, or they could also make their posts public. Everytime there is a blog posted by the user, the buddy list gets an SMS alert informing them to check out the blog on the specified URL.

Mahesh Prasad, president, Application Solutions and Content Group for Reliance Communications said, “The community of bloggers in India is growing and we want to ensure that pictures taken on mobiles are just not left in the phones. They can now be shared through mobile blogging and we are quite optimistic that millions of our users will make use of this powerful medium. Mobile phones are very convenient and outnumber PC or Internet users in India and lends nicely to community networking. Moreover mobile blogging is simple, easier and it’s faster.”

The service is available for Rs. 5 per MMS blog and Rs. 3 per SMS blog. Users can check out their blogs on the Mblog Web site, where they would have to key in their password.