Utterz Makes Mobile Blogging Easier

People have been posting to blogs from cell phones for a while now, but new launch Utterz is dedicated to making the process easier (and more flexible) than ever. In addition to multimedia mobile posting features, they offer the now-expected dose of social networking, though I suspect web workers will be more interested in their ability to act as a proxy to quickly get content from a cell to pretty much any blog anywhere.

After a trivially simple signup process (cell number, username, password, email), you’re ready to start posting. The easiest way is to just dial in to 712-432-Mooo (yes, the cow theme is pervasive here) and speak your mind; that will get an audio utter up on the site. But there’s more! Go ahead and text a message to go@utterz.com, or send a video or picture to the same address, and Utterz will match it up to your most recent voice post, mashing them together into a single utter.

You don’t even have to have a cell phone to play. You can create utters by uploading content directly to their web site, or you can email everything in (with audio in MP3 or WAV format) and the pieces will still get put together correctly. Utters can be public or limited to friends; as with Twitter and similar services, the front page of the site shows a running list of public utters, which you can listen, share, rate, tag, or reply to.

In addition to putting utters on its own site, Utterz offers a variety of ways to embed them elsewhere through Flash-based widgets. Go to the Lab section of the site, and a wizard-like interface walks you through the details of embedding for Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, or any site where you control the HTML.  With this last, you can use Utterz as your own private mobile posting service, and it’s even free (“because we have relationships with phone companies to get a small portion of what you are paying your cell phone company for your calling plan”).  Overall, it’s easy to get started with, and worked smoothly in my testing. It’s always nice to run across things that remove little bits of friction, and Utterz qualifies.

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