FIM's Photobucket Launches Full-Service Mobile Version

Having a mobile app is nothing new for Photobucket — it’s accepted camera-phone uploads for some time — but the Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) site is now launching a full-fledged mobile version at m.photobucket.com. It’s part of FIM’s effort to create free, ad-supported mobile versions of its various sites; MySpace Mobile beta was the first last fall. Photobucket Mobile users will be able to browse existing personal albums and public Photobucket content directly; upload videos to Photobucket from mobile devices; share photos and graphics with individuals via mobile; and search photos and graphics. They say it should be compatible with most web-enabled mobile devices.

Photobucket says demand for full-service mobile has been increasing, citing an internal FIM survey of “thousands” of Photobucket users from last July that found 80 percent had a camera phone, 36 percent use the camera feature every day, 52 percent have access to mobile internet. Too bad these rather interesting numbers are rendered almost meaningless by the lack of a real survey amount or any kind of methodology.

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