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I’ve been looking for a good mobile blogging solution something that will allow me to blog for my cell phone little easier. It’s not something that is exactly difficult, I’m just looking for something that makes it as easy as blogging for my computer. Along the way I found a service called Cellfish they provide a means of sharing different types of media from videos, images and pictures, movies and of course the obligatory Free Ringtones, the thing that makes the mobile media world run.

It is free to set up a service, and I thought I’d give it a spin, because that’s what I do. You set up a profile, upload picture and you can set your image or you can choose from a default set of pictures, and you receive a short confirmation message sent to your cell phone via text message. You take code of that message and entered into the website and in your account is live. You can now upload pictures are media to yourself on or through your computer. You can then share that media wants is uploaded with your friends via your mobile phone or you can display it on line in a blog, like the image above of Elmer Fudd, which I uploaded through my computer as opposed to my cell phone. You can establish a public and private window or folder which essentially hold your portfolio of media whenever that happens to be.

so the general idea is that you can rapidly share things that you have on your cell phone with other people so they can get on their cell phone. So if you come across a funny viral image or a funny video or something like that you can rapidly and easily share from one cell phone to the next regardless of the technologies in those cell phones. And of course if you are looking for more Free Ringtones , you can find those at Cellfish.com too long with a lot of other interesting content that’s already prepared to share, so they don’t upload anything you can just go with what other people party mode up to the site and shared in their public folders!

I was reading about the resurgence of direct mail and e-mail marketing today.  I’ve been reading about how Web 2.0 interfaces and techniques are creating a resurgence in various types of marketing.  I then came across an article in revenue Magazine that talks about a company called Zappos.com, an online shoe store essentially that my wife frequents.

Zappos.com learn through experience that when a customer refers to one of your competitors on your website or on your Internet forum it’s important to leave that reference there.  If you delete all references to your competitors, the good the bad and the ugly, your website will not seem terribly realistic and the trustworthiness of the information on your website will decrease significantly.

This is one of those concepts that many people into it but don’t always stayed out right nor do they internalize it and build it into their website strategy.  So the next time you receive a comment on your blog or in your forum from one of your readers are customers about one of your competitors let it ride and don’t be too quick to delete it.  Sometimes this might come in the form of spam from a spammer and that’s probably worthy of being deleted, but if it’s realistically from a real person, consider leaving it in.