Blogging is the most fun way to share pictures, text and even video using a mobile phone. Whenever anything happens, phone blogging is the coolest way to instantly let the world know what is going on.

Ease of use is at the core of the FoneBlog™ experience. It has never been easier to create and maintain a website. There is no client software, there is no complexity and since a user can be authenticated by their phone number (MSISDN) there is no need even to remember a password.

Key Features: Customization Seamless Integration Community Addiction Moderation & Animation Auto-Animation of Feedback Customer Care System Flexibility Billing Options Device Profiling Mobile Messaging Centric Mobile Multimedia Scalability Standards Compliance

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Customization
FoneBlog can be provided as a white label solution and branded to the identity of the mobile operator.

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Seamless Integration
FoneBlog seamlessly integrates with the Operator billing, reporting, messaging centers and customer care management systems.

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Community Addiction
FoneBlog is a community content system incorporating innovative features to form interactive groups and in turn increase Blog usage and MMS traffic.

For more information on Building Mobile Communities click here.

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Moderation & Animation
FoneBlog incorporates moderation and auto-animation systems. It also provides a management interface to the user database which can be used for targeted animation campaigns and service moderation.

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Auto-Animation of Feedback
Unlike other online services, mobile blogging involves a sense of persistent "ownership" of a website. We provide automated positive feedback loops to users to ensure a positive experience (e.g. hits, visitors, comments).

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Customer Care System
Customer Care and data mining functionality is integral to the system to allow easy segmentation of our user base. Classifications include gender, age, location, traffic, interests and topics.

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Flexibility
- Deployment Options & Pricing: FoneBlog can be deployed as a software license or ASP model with flexible pricing models for the product and service.

- Service Levels: Within FoneBlog any number of service levels can be configured. Each service level corresponds to a particular amount of disk space that the user can utilize for their media.

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Billing Options
FoneBlog supports several billing options such as the creation of CDRs and reverse bill SMS for both contract and pre-paid customers.

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Device Profiling
As all mobile phones are different, a true mobile blogging solution needs to alter the display to ensure the highest quality user experience possible. FoneBlog supports over 2,000 devices and uses an internal database to determine picture size, type (JPEG, GIF. BMP, WMBP etc) to ensure it is best suited for the viewing device.

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Mobile Messaging Centric
Unlike other Internet-only blogging solutions, FoneBlog is designed from day one to support and exploit mobile technologies such as MMS, SMS, WAP, and WAP-push. This approach ensures that FoneBlog is right for the mobile youth culture.

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• SMIL (MMS payload).
• MIME.
• 3GPP.
• Graphics capabilities.
• WML, xHTML, cHTML.
• UAProf/WURFL.
• AMR.

• MMS (MM7, EAIF, MM4, MM3).
• SMS (SMPP, UCP, CIMD).
• SMTP.
• WAP Push (Push Access Protocol (PAP)).
• Transcoding.

• RSS.
• ATOM.

Scalability
The system was designed to provide 99.999% availability for up to 100 million subscribers across multiple operators and time-zones.

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Standards Compliance
There are a number of formal and informal standards that are relevant for mobile blogging services and where NewBay proactively works to implement and test.

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