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MBuzzy: You Tube for Mobile? It's been here for a while.

By Harrison Lynch Follow me on Twitter
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (permalink)

There's been a bit of buzz in the press about You Tube launching a mobile app in 2007. In fact You Tube co-founder Chad Hurley made an announcement to that effect at a conference in November. While that's certainly cool that You Tube Mobile is coming to a cell phone near you in 2007, a site called mbuzzy that was launched over a year ago does that same thing and more.

In classic Web 2.0 fashion it's free, cross linked and communitized, and enables you to do a couple things with your cell phone that you might not have known you could:

1. Upload, Share, and download videos and photos. Yes there are other services that allow you to do parts of this with your cell phone (Flickr, You Tube, etc) but MBuzzy's execution is very simple and straight forward and worth checking out.

2. Upload an MP3, use the sound editor to loop a snippet of the song and send it to your phone as a ringtone. This is just flat out cool. You can see the waveform of th esong, set markers for beginning and end, set the loop and so on. And best of all it's free! The one thing you can't do is share your ripped tones with friends as the guys at mbuzzy want to avoid running afoul of the RIA.

You do need to register to use the service, and if you're going to use a cell phone with the site you absolutely need to have an unlimited data plan. Sprint Power Vision customers on the LG Fusic, Sanyo Katana and Samsung Blade and Cingular 3G customers on the LG CU500, Samsung Sync or forthcoming Nokia N75 will love this service.

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