We’ve been working with Transpera on a collaboration and we’re starting to execute on the plan now.

Their platform is awesome to bring video mobile in the easiest way possible. Clearspring enhances the service by integrating it with widgets and enabling web to mobile, mobile to mobile and mobile to web syndication.

Great company, great product, and great people and we’re happy to be working with them.

From Fierce Wireless:

Transpera, providers of the first comprehensive solution to monetize Web video on mobile phones, today announced a significant partnership with Clearspring Technologies, the leading widget network, to further integrate its mobile video service offerings by way of online widgets. The deal includes implementation of Clearspring’s online widget technology, featuring the “Send-to-Mobile” capability powered by Transpera, where a user can send a video to a mobile phone from a widget.

Widgets are movable, sharable mini-applications used by consumers to craft custom online experiences. Audiences can create widgets of their favorite video content, for example, and post it to their web page, start page, blog or social networking profiles on Facebook or MySpace, for easy access and interaction with the content of their choice on a daily basis.

Clearspring, who distributes and manages widget capabilities for a vast number of premium content sites, will now integrate its mobile offering with Transpera’s “Send-to-Mobile” feature, allowing users to share their favorite online video content to their phone or their friend’s phone. From the widget, users are prompted to type in the phone number of any video-capable device to which they want the video sent. Transpera’s platform instantly delivers the requested video to the mobile phone, along with additional mobile features that let users share videos mobile-to-mobile via “Send-to-Friend,” search for and save favorites, and more. Both the online widget and mobile video service serve targeted, dynamic mobile advertising.

The sharing of digital content has become a commonplace form of communications, especially among social networking and mobile users. According to comScore’s most recent WidgetMetrics report, Clearspring leads the U.S. with over 57 million unique monthly views. The estimate for monthly unique widget views worldwide now exceeds 600 million. Clearspring powers widget syndication across the web and onto the desktop. By introducing Transpera’s mobile video services and advertising platform, the new partnership greatly extends Clearspring’s mobile capabilities to video publishers and advertisers, as well as drives increased usage from consumers.

“This partnership marks the continual commitment by Clearspring to respond to growing consumer demand for more personalized experiences across the Web, desktop and now, mobile,” said Jay Rappaport, chief operating officer, Clearspring Technologies. “Our relationship with Transpera is a natural fit. Together, we bring even more video-viewing experiences to the user, as well as open up new monetization opportunities for video publishers and advertisers.”

“This is an exciting time for Transpera,” said Frank Barbieri, founder & CEO, Transpera. “Our relationship with Clearspring is a key component toward our goal of building the largest, free ad-supported, mobile video network in North America. Our partnership will be instrumental in bringing the mobile video experience to online audiences.”

Earlier this month, Transpera announced plans to deliver mobile video services, along with targeted, dynamic mobile advertising for several of the nation’s most prestigious entertainment brands including: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIA.B), Discovery Communications, AccuWeather.com®, the Travel Channel and Next New Networks. These companies join an already impressive roster of customers that includes CBS News, Associated Press, Revision3, Break.com, maniaTV, eBaumsWorld and more.

About Transpera

Transpera provides the industry’s first comprehensive platform for monetizing Web videos on mobile phones. The company’s award winning mobile video delivery and advertising platform provides online content owners, network operators and advertisers with a turnkey solution that connects all the necessary pieces involved in successful and profitable mobile video deployments. Powering mobile video channels for such premium online video brands as AccuWeather.com, Associated Press, Break.com, CBS News, Discovery Communications, Ebaum’s World, Fox Reality Channel, maniaTV, MTV Networks, Next New Networks, Revision3, Travel Channel, Zoovision and more, Transpera is quickly building the largest free mobile video network in North America. Transpera is based in Santa Monica, Calif. and is funded by top venture firms Flybridge Capital (formerly IDG Ventures), Intel Capital, and First Round Capital Ventures. For more information, visit www.transpera.com.

About Clearspring

Clearspring is the leading provider of distribution, management and monetization services for widgets and other distributable Web content. Clearspring’s free sharing services enable publishers and developers to distribute and track viral digital content to the most popular destinations, including social networks, start pages, bookmarking sites, blogs, mobile devices and desktop platforms. The company delivers billions of impressions every month working with the world’s most prominent brands, media companies and Web 2.0 businesses. The company also provides new monetization opportunities for publishers and developers using the Clearspring platform by allowing them to seamlessly integrate advertising-based services in their distributable Web content. To learn more, visit www.clearspring.com.

The names of companies mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and should be treated as such. Transpera is a registered trademark of Transpera, Inc.

Even though the camera sucks, it’s still nice to have the iPhone geotag photos you take with it.

There are many apps that upload these photos to Flickr and place them on the Flickr geotagged map. However I tend to sync all my iPhone photos to my PC first, and then use FlickrSync periodically to keep my local library in sync with Flickr.

Unfortunately, there was a critical problem with doing things this way. Flickr wasn’t placing the geotagged photos taken with my iPhone on the map. Basically, it wasn’t reading the EXIF data to populate its own geo fields.

After finding this post in the Flickr forums, I visited this page to turn EXIF geo import on for new photos, and then visited here to go back through my old photos and reprocess the ones with geo data.

Now I’m all set and have a (sparsely) populated map.

Got an email from dev.mobi today saying they’re re-branding to mobiForge.

I’ve stated my .mobi opinions in the past and you can imagine I’m pretty happy about this. The dev.mobi tools, standards and docs are such a great resource for the mobile development community, and they shouldn’t be confused with the .mobi or not to .mobi debate.

Let’s just make great, standards-based mobile apps and sites.

Full text of the email is below.

Next Monday, you’ll see an exciting new development to dev.mobi. After two fantastic years in its current form, we have redesigned the site - and we are changing the name.

We’re proud to announce that dev.mobi will become mobiForge.

(Don’t worry, all your bookmarks will still work, the same great content is there - and of course it remains the world’s largest independent mobile development community! If you’re interested in the amazing opportunities and technologies of the mobile web, then this remains the site for you.)

Since we launched, dev.mobi has truly exceeded our greatest expectations - the size of the community, the content we’ve been lucky enough to publish, and the great feedback we’ve had from you.

Confucius said that “only the wisest and the stupidest cannot change”. He might not have been talking about web sites, but we do know how surprising it can be when a web site that you know and love changes overnight, and the name, navigation, and layout you’re used to suddenly disappear.

Hence this advance notice! (And to ask you kindly to tolerate a little planned downtime on Sunday, 14 September )

Most significantly, the navigational structure of the site will change. We have created hundreds of articles, blog posts and forums over the last two years, and they weren’t categorised particularly well. That’ll be fixed.

Secondly, as part of mobiForge, we’re launching a new directory service with listings of resources, site builders, companies, tools and even people that will help you get ahead in the mobile web. We think you’ll love it. (And if you want to make sure you’re on it, drop us a line at
tech@mtld.mobi)

We’re also unleashing a new vertical search feature. You’ll be able to search not only mobiForge, but a wide range of other mobile development resources from across the web: all in one place.

Finally, the site will have a very new look and feel, which I think will speak for itself. Let us know what you think.

As you know, we’re madly passionate about the mobile web. And we’re also passionate about helping the people that make it happen. People like you - the tens of thousands of designers, engineers, and technology professionals
- from all over the world - who are living the mobile development dream.

Many thanks for your support, your feedback and your continued participation in the community. We’d love to know what you think of the new site come Monday morning, and we’ll see you on the forums!

James, Ruadhan, Claire, and all here at the dotMobi team.

Quick thought on OneConnect.

Sure validates the whole “address book is your social network tree” meme we’ve been seeing.

Check out Fidg’t which is focused more heavily on this concept rather than just the aggregation to gain traffic approach Yahoo is taking (as well as Yoono, Friendfeed….).

Running cnn.com and nothing else, Firefox 3 is taking close to 100M of physical memory, and Chrome is using about 17.5M.

OK, I have del.icio.us and downthemall installed as plugins for Firefox, but come on.

Chrome is also much, much more snappy than FFX 3, but I’m sure you all know that by now.

Top it all off with the fact that Chrome barely has any chrome. On Vista, it puts the tab bar in the window titlebar.

Given the memory footprint and the very careful use of screen real estate, for any ultraportable machine, Chrome is going to be my new default browser. Hands down. This means any UMPC and/or netbook I use.

For the record, we’re getting into mobile phone territory with the memory footprint on this thing.

Update: As I add tabs, the memory footprint begins to lose to Firefox. It’s less pronounced at lower tab numbers (2 or 3) but up at 5-8, Firefox starts to win.