3 and O2 have announced that they will be merging their current mobile video clip sites into one which will be renamed EyeVibe. This will be the first cross-network social networking service in the UK. It is a service which anyone with a video-enabled mobile phone can access. For other network users dont worry there has been a rumour that 3 and O2s competitors - Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange will also be joining the EyeVibe service later this month.
Yospace is the company that have made 3s SeeMeTV and O2s LookAtMe current video clip services, and they have created the new EyeVibe which has been in development for the past six months. Yospace have said that their plan for 2008 is:
“to make EyeVibe the biggest and brightest mobile community in the UK.
With more and more 5 megapixel camera phones coming on to the market, such as the new Samsung G600, the future for mobile video looks to be very exciting.
This new mobile phone video community will allow users to watch video clips, and upload their own mobile video clips to be watched by others. It lets those who have added a video to make cash, as when a video is downloaded the maker of that video will get a small fee which is paid through a PayPal account.
So far both 3s and O2s current video clip service has had a combined total of 60,000 video clips added, that have been downloaded more than 32 million times. This has earned a total of over 800,000 for the creators of the video clips. Members of the EyeVibe community will be able to interact with one another by commenting and voting for each video clip and they can also message each other.
Video clips can be submitted via MMS to 60300. Browsing the actual EyeVibe site is free, and it costs only 10p to download a clip for 3 and O2 customers, other UK network operators will vary.
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[Source: The UK Mobile Phone Blog]
