Uploading video from your mobile?

Thu, 08/03/2007 - 15:40 — brunodbo

As we've seen in a previous post, video coming from your mobile phone can be treated pretty much like any other video file. You can convert it to a Quicktime, MPEG, ... and do whatever you want with it. This also means uploading your video from your computer to a video sharing site such as YouTube.

However, some websites have developed specific ways to upload mobile phone video directly from your phone. We'll list a few here:

• YouTube: when you create an account at YouTube, you can set up a mobile phone profile: you can define the default titles, tags and categories to use when you post video's from a mobile phone. Afterwards you receive an email address that you can send your mobile phone videos to (from your mobile) to have them automatically uploaded to YouTube. Link: http://www.youtube.com/my_profile_mobile
• Photobucket: works in pretty much the same way as YouTube. Upon account creation, an e-mail address is given together with a PIN code. To upload a video to their website, all you need to do is e-mail the video file from your cell phone to your Photobucket address. Link: http://photobucket.com/
• Blogger: Again, pretty much the same functionality, albeit on your own personal blog (!) instead of a big site such as YouTube. You can start videoblogging from your cell plone within minutes :-) Also supports audioblogging. Link: http://www.blogger.com/tour_pst.g
• Blip.tv: Register, create a mobile e-mail address by typing in a password on http://blip.tv/prefs/blipfoot/ (registration required), and start uploading from your mobile!