Report: Mobile blogging just a niche app

ABI Research says the practice of mobile blogging may receive a lot of hype, but in reality is only a niche application. Analysts at the company expect only 655,000 "active" mobloggers by the end of the year, growing to only 2.7 million by 2011 (out of a base of 3 billion mobile subscribers worldwide).

Hurdles include the still-poor picture quality of cameraphones, and the lack of interesting things to post by people with boring lives. The exception--moblogs tied to larger online communities.

For more on the mobile blogging future:
- see the Cellular-News report

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