new community competition

"I'll tell you a story" is the theme for our new competition. A celebration of MoblogUK, it's organised by the community, for the community, and will be judged by the community.

To take part, simply send in between 2 and 5 images that together tell a story, see the moblog itself for details on prizes.

Check it out here: Story Teller

Winning a pair of Ravel shoes

Congratulations to Sara for winning the first weeks prize of a pair of shoes from Ravel.
Have a look at the winning entry here.

Sara chose the Rilla shoes for her prize.

Keep your entries coming in to the Shoegaga shared moblog.

For anyone who goes gaga over shoes.

Today we're launching a new moblogging competition, In association with Sony Ericsson,
Shoewawa, and Ravel, we bring you shoeGAGA!.

This moblog is open to members of the public as well as all moblogUK members, a celebration of all things shoe.

Send us your pics of:

Dorothy shoes,
Mystery shoes,
Phat shoes,
Betty Page shoes,
Kinky boots,
Comfy slippers,
New shoes
you name it, moblog it!

Each week there is a pair of shoes to be won from Ravel, and each month there is a grand prize winner, scoring a pair of shoes from Ravel and a shiny new Sony Ericsson handset too.

The moblog runs within moblogUK as a normal shared moblog, and also from www.shoegaga.com so do tell your friends about it.

'We've just launched a shared moblog with Scoopt, the citizen journalism agency.

We recognise that you as a moblogUK member are amongst those most likely to know what to do with a newsworthy image or video that you've captured; ordinarily, you'd send it to your moblog. By partnering with Scoopt we are able to offer a shared space where you can send in any images that you think are worthy of print.

Mostly for celebrity and breaking news shots, this shared moblog exists for you to post images that you think the traditional press would want to publish, and you make money along the way, in fact Scoopt shares whatever fee they get with you 50/50.

Scoopt will represent your rights in selling your posts to the worldwide press, and you don't need to do anything different, just post to scoopt (at) moblg (dot) net as usual from your cameraphone or email client.

As far as we know this is a world first, that is, a photo sharing site creating a way for it's members to have their content marketed to the press, and we want to know what you think, there is a forum post for discussion

here, and you can see the moblog here.

This moblog is open to moblogUK members only.

XelenarendezvousX for her lovely smile wins July's 'Smile Bank' competition, and so will receive a fab T'Shirt as designed for the competition by moblogger Goode.

We still want and need your smiles, so check The Smile Bank for info on how to enter if you havn't already.

Win Tickets to V Festival

Union Of Knives are running a competition on their new moblog to celebrate the launch of their new album "Violence and Birdsong".

Violence and Birdsong is also the title of the competition, the most creative images, video or audio that manages to capture the idea of Violence, or Birdsong, or both can win a pair of tickets to the V festival, a £50 Itunes voucher, or signed copies of the album.

The competition is open to everyone, so take part and good luck, maybe you'll be going to the V festival this year after all!

Full details here: Violence and Birdsong.

Darren aka Goode started a Smile moblog, we liked the idea so much we asked him to design The Smile Bank moblog for us.

It's live now, and open to everyone to send in Summery smiles.

This is the first moblog to run using an MMS shortcode, you can either email from your phone as normal to smile(at) moblg (dot) net, or (in the UK) simply MMS to 60300 with the word smile in the subject or body.

Visit The Smile Bank and make a deposit or withdrawal :)

The moblog for T-mobiles' 'The Strokes' Street gig is live here: The Strokes Street Gig.

It was an awesome gig, and the pics and videos sent in on the night really show it.

Against a backdrop of a massive dinosaur, the Strokes were magnificent, check out the moblog!

Wolfmother are a band from Sydney Australia who have recently started moblogging with us.

They are running a great competition asking people to record a video inspired by their latest single 'Woman'.

The winner will get a pair of VIP tickets to Reading Festival, and the best videos actually get edited together into a brand new video for the Woman track to be run exclusively through Kerrang!.

You can check out the current video for the song 'Woman', and enter your own, on The wolfmother Moblog.

The first big site upgrade of 2006 is here! We've made some improvements to the user experience, added some fantastic new features and upgraded existing ones.

Getting ahead in advertising

We've listened to what you had to say on advertising, and we've changed the way it works.

Adverts will no longer be shown on subscriber's moblogs, regardless of who is looking at them. moblogUK pages won't display adverts to subscribers, as is the case already. Free moblogs will display adverts to anyone who looks at them, and some pages will feature an extra advertising slot.

We hope this arrangement will work better for everyone. We will continue to monitor the situation, and we welcome suggestions or comments in the forum.

New and improved

We really wanted to give something back to our subscribers this time so we've raised the maximum message size (3Mb!) and created some cool new features.

New!

Graphical friends lists for subscribers (thanks to Angel for inspiration).

Who's watching me lists for free accounts.

Extra high quality image resizing for subscribers and improved basic quality for free accounts.

EXIF information, such as the time an image was taken and the model of the phone used, is now preserved in subscribers images.

Latest image link and basic comment tracker now available to free accounts.

Get an email update if someone adds you to their friends list.

Improved!

Message size limit raised to 3Mb for subscribers.

Profile page updated and enhanced.

Adverts removed from subscriber's moblogs and the front page.

Very long friends lists no longer break pages — get more friends!

Subscriber's friends page streamlined, comment tracker extended.

Latest news a bit more visible!

Not so great!

The Southern Sunset and Plastik themes have been removed from the site — the new changes just wouldn't fit. Users who had selected these themes have been reset to the default, our apologies for any inconvenience.

Join the fun

It's now (slightly) easier to get moblogging and (much) easier to upgrade your account and become a subscriber.

We've added the create a moblog link to the site navigation. That's just the start, we'll be doing much more to help new users get on board.

And for those of you who haven't subscribed yet, we've made it easier to upgrade as well. You can now create longer-term subscriptions of 6 and 12 months and have the option to subscribe without needing a Paypal account. We've created a nice upgrade page that explains all the great stuff you get

We hope that you will continue to enjoy the site and the community. We'll be adding many more new features and enhancements during the rest of 2006 to make moblogUK even better. Your comments and suggestions are always appreciated. If you have ideas please post them in the forum.

Until next time, happy moblogging.

The moblogUK team

The results of the Valentines competition are in:

Best couple: SSLovetub, with honourable mentions going to Laszlo/Beachsomewhere, Angel/Leo, Venus/Todd and Rachel/Paul (not to mention all the other great couples photos there isn't space to mention) - this one was really hard to call!

Batchelor: Backwards Lamb

Batchelorette: Beth

Winners will be contacted by email for shirt sizes, addresses and suchlike. Many thanks to everyone for your fantastic entries - this wasn't an easy competition to judge, it's just a shame we didn't have more prizes to give out.

The Valentine's competition is now closed. Thank you all for your incredible submissions. More than any other competition we've ever done, this one will be very difficult to judge. We'll announce the winners on Friday. Your prize could be on it's way to you soon!