Why other microblogging sites have faded away?

Have you ever thought about why other microblogging sites have faded away while Twitter continues to swallow every one of its clones?

Oh, BTW, do you know those Twitter clones or sites that offer(ed) similar services?

* gridjit.com
* hellotext.com
* koornk.com
* jisko.net
* fireeagle.yahoo.net

It is mainly due to the lack passion and drive on the part of the owners of the above mentioned sites. Of course, finance also played a major role in Twitter's success.

I believe tumblr.com arrive a little before to Twitter but look at where it is now?

Free Fun Photo Utilities from Comeks

Fun Photo Blogger from Comeks is a charming new application that merges mobile messaging with microblogging with images to create little mobile comics. It’s an innovative idea that came from a group of Finns in Helsinki. Comeks allows for visual mobile communication. It’s simple to use. Just download the free application. Create funny comic style images by adjusting your photos, adding stickers and bubbles with text. Software offers different fonts to choose from. You can share them in Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr or to other phones or email. Use it for invitations, greetings or blogging.

There are two more applications, offered by authors, which can be downloaded from the website. Comeks Shorts, allows to create your own custom avatar and sending the fun Shorts messages. Modify body parts, mood, props and background and type your message in the speech bubble. Thee messages can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and through email, and work on Sony/Ericson phones and iPhone.

Bikini Babe Yourself - iPhone App – for Twitter, Tumblr, and email allows to create funny images by combining your own face with steaming hot bikini babe templates. This application is however not free and costs $0.99 at iPhone App Store.

Home page: http://www.comeks.com/

All Social Profiles in One Button: SocialFollow

SocialFollow is a cool new web application that combines all of your other social networking and social bookmarking profiles. You probably as many active bloggers, or just social networks customers, have your accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and many other profiles around the net. It would be nice if your blog visitors will become your followers on one or few sites, where they have accounts as well.

With SocialFollow, you are able to combine all of these profiles into one handy button. These are great for embedding to your blog, sharing in your forum signature, or posting it anywhere around the web!

Through the freely available services, you can create a button that can be embedded wherever you choose on the web, contains personalized links to the social accounts that you use. All your blog visitor has to do is rollover the button to find the links to your accounts. Not only can the accounts that are linked to be customized but the appearance of the button itself can also be changed to some extent. With a Social Follow button, you can consolidate everything one time and not have to think about it again.

You just sign up online and then add the corresponding social links one by one. A string of code will be generated for you to embed at your blog or web page.

Website address: http://www.socialfollow.com/

One Click Live Mobile Blogging

Mobile blogging became a modern reality, and all the related accessories, applications, and services, are getting enormous attention from the blogging community. Today, we present CellSpin - a one-click live mobile blogging application for video, voice, photo, text blogging, supporting several Social Networking Sites. First, we mentioned the application last June, but since its applicability grew significantly in terms of the supported sites and supported mobile gadgets.


Description:
CellSpin is a FREE and easy to use mobile blogging application that lets you blog photos, audio, video, and text from your phone to popular blogging and social networking communities.

Supported Sites:

• MySpace,
  
• Facebook,
  
• Google Blogger,
  
• WordPress,
  
• YouTube,
  
• Flickr,
  
• Picasa
  
• Live Journal,
  
• Live Spaces,
  
• Typepad,
  
• Twitter,
  
• Pownce, and
  
• eBay.

To use CellSpin, you must visit their website http://www.cellspin.net and create a free account.

Things you can do with CellSpin:

• Voice blogging
  
• Photo blogging
  
• Text blogging
  
• Video blogging
  
• Use CellSpin as a voice notes application
  
• Use the Select Media button to select and post pre-existing media from your phone
  
• Use MySpace and Facebook MoBlog applications from CellSpin
  
• Record an audio conversation and embarrass your friends
  
• Securely post audio, photos, video, and text to live eBay auctions
  
• Podcast with the click of a button
  
• Record voice meeting minutes and post them to a blog
  
• Share media on CellSpin community blogs ("clogs") on various discussion topics
  
• Record and post live events to blogs or clogs, becoming an on-the-scene journalist
  
• Create your own novel, fun, profitable uses...
  

Supported phones:
http://www.cellspin.net/phones/

Customer feedback:
Kenny from Odblog tested the application in the field, and he provides the following feedback. The pictures are more impressive than the standard blogger uploads as you get a larger image without having to play around with the html. The image is also automatically rotated. The text appears nicely beneath the picture as the entries are grouped by date, and I also managed to send a status update to twitter through it too. I’m thinking this would be a great way to record a trip using different media types videos for peer assessment, audio to analyze geographical description, text as a field logbook, 140 characters to summarize key features of a field location and photos to evaluate field sketches. My only gripe would be that the application seems to stay open permanently. This might just be a phone bug or it might be me being tech incompetent!

Download (for Blackberry):
http://www.blackberrytoday.com/software/files/CellSpin.zip

Screen shots from the Website (Click to Enlarge):

CellSpin

CellSpin

CellSpin

Put Multiple Web Links into One Shortcut with LinkBunch

Mobile blogging and Internet Messaging created an entire culture of communication minimization style. People are trying to provide maximum information with minimal time and words. New service LinkBunch will help you if you need to communicate multiple Web Links. The free online service will allow you putting multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone. When the recipient clicks on the tiny LinkBunch link, he/she will be presented with a page that contains all the links that you put in the bunch. So, it is like a web shortcut to the collection of links you want to share with your friends.

The service will be useful for those who share multiple links on the web services such as instant messengers (Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, etc.) or microblogging platforms such as Twitter (which has a 140-character limit) and Pownce (which only has one link field).
LinkBunch is easy to use. Web interface allows you to just paste links into the box on the homepage - one link on each line - and click ’Bunch’ to bunch them together. You can also use the Firefox extension that will let you create a bunch of all your open tabs in the browser.

Examples of use:

1. You want to send your friends all your blogs and profile pages in different social networks.
   
2. You want to share the multiple travel deals you have located online for your next dream vacation.
   
3. You want to present your artistic works, hosted online, to your potential employer.

Instead of multiple, often long and complicated links, you send one - short and professional. No registration required, no strings attached, service is absolutely free.

Website: http://linkbun.ch/