– Metacafe: The video-sharing-for-profit site has added a service to allow users to upload videos and view others via their mobile phones. Unlike other video sites, Metacafe only features videos of 90 seconds or less, which it hopes will make the content more user-friendly to mobile audiences. All of Metacafe’s videos are user-generated and they only get made “live” once a certain number of people in a community review panel approve it. The site will use P2P technology from PeerBox to deliver the service, and it will go live in November first in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands before extending elsewhere. Metacafe had 27 million monthly unique users in August, according to comScore. release
— Voeveo: The New Zealand-based mobile content marketplace has opened up shop in the UK. Voeveo allows independent producers of ringtones, games, wallpapers and such like to upload and sell their content to mobile users at their own prices (minimum £0.49), taking 70 percent of a 70/30 revenue split, in contrast to the standard 40-60 percent cut that a provider normally keeps. Producers can collect their revenues once they’ve sold 20 pounds ($40) of items. The UK arrival essentially means the company enabling British payment processing backends and doing marketing on these shores. Voeveo has no relationships with networks, reckoning users are tired of operator portals — it is going for the independent producer segment and asks producers to do some of their own promotion for their wares. The outfit so far claims 6,000 content sellers and 60,000 pieces of content. Consumers currently buy via the website with a mobile website coming later.
— Nokia/Boingo: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is probaby not going to make a few more enemies among the mobile operators with this one. The handset giant has signed a deal with WiFi hotspot operator so that Boingo subscribers can download the Boingo client onto Nokia phones. The service will initially be avaiable on N95, N80, N80 Internet Edition devices, WiFi enabled S60 devices, Eseries smartphones and the N800 and N810 tablets. Boingo Mobile subscribers pay a monthly flat rate of $7.95. Boingo in February announced that it would be offering a mobile-phone based version of its service but to-date hasn’t announced deals along the lines of the Nokia agreement. The WiFi operator did a deal offering free WiFi to iPhone users in August but doesn’t have a permanent arrangement in place for the device. It is also available on Belkin’s Skype-enabled WiFi phone.
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