What's on deck? Let users move content to their cell phone like 3 Guppies

Posted by tom klein August 14, 2007 at 2:30 am

Here’s the deal. Your cell phone runs on a closed network that belongs to your cell phone company. Your laptop or website connects to a network called the internet that is open to the public. Where does the opportunity lie? Connecting these two networks.

3 Guppies gives you a vision into how this can be done. It lets users transfer any music, pictures, videos, or MySpace information from a website to a cell phone. Users can simply install a mobilizer widget that in turn lets them send pictures and videos on that page to any cell phone, with just a simple click. Alternatively, with this same widget, your friends can turn your pictures into cell phone wallpaper or watch videos on the go.

While this site is free, the lesson remains the same. Your users are trying to move content from one place to another. While not everyone can develop an application to transfer content, how about just creating a separate section of your site with optimized sizes and formats. Or, how about making it easy to send content by text message?

If your buyers want to move content from the web to their phone, how easy are you making it for them to do so?

In addition to transferring uploads, 3 Guppies also has created a Firefox browser plugin that lets you right-click on just about any item on a website and transfer it to your cell phone.

Think about what sort of information might be most helpful on a cell phone. It might be as simple as letting users send a text message version of a map, an instruction, a recipe, a song . . . just about anything.

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  1. What a great little tool; now the challenge is finding content to send to my phone..

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