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!

enter here: http://moblog.co.uk/blog/valentines

It's Valentine's Day soon, a time for us all to let our partners and adored ones know that we fancy them rotten. Our Valentines competiton takes into account those of us who live the single life too, so the competition is open to all, with great prizes for the best batchelor and batchelorette and best couple.

To win, simply send in the cutest love inspiring images to impress your favourite valentine, or, alternatively, express your Anti-Valentine's feelings in photo form.

Tell your friends about the competition too, anyone can enter, they don't need to be a site member.

What you can win

Couples: The cutest couple each win a Sony Ericsson J300i phone (in Pink and white of course!), a moblogUK tshirt each, and a 12 month subscription to moblogUK if you dont already have one.

Batchelorette: wins a 12 month subscription to the excellent and erotic Scarlet Magazine, the UK's only erotic magazine for women, a lovely moblogUK t-shirt of your choice, and a 12 month subscription to moblogUK.

Batchelor: wins a home brew beer making kit, a fantastic moblogUK t-shirt of your choice, and a 12 month subscription to moblogUK

Enjoy the competition, it will run until the weekend after Valentine's Day, the 19th of February, so you have lots of time to be creative with this.

http://moblog.co.uk/blog/valentines | valentines@moblg.net

come to our birthday party on feb 10th..



MoblogUK is celebrating our 2nd (and a bit) birthday this February, and we would love for you to come along and help us do that. The party will be on the 10th of February at the bar/restaurant Cantaloupe in Old Street, London.

Cantaloupe serve a huge range of European beers, and the food is great (snacks will be provided), so there is something for everyone. We love prizes and presents, so there will be a raffle on the night with prizes sponsored by Warp Records, Digital Camera Magazine (tbc), www.iwantoneofthose.com, Nokia, Mute Records, Sony Ericsson and more! If you can't make it on the night, you can still take part, by buying raffle tickets from our online shop.

There is a forum post about the birthday party here for more information.

We can't wait to see you all there, or joining the party online..

Google Adsense adverts are going to be launched on the site from January 9th. They will appear on the the home page, the search page, personal blogs, shared blogs, this page and the phone reviews pages. We hope these ads are going to generate revenue to fund ongoing development of moblogUK. We're intending to incorporate many 'site suggestions' from the forums and launch many new features throughout 2006.

Subscribers won't see any ads at all (when they are logged in). If you don't want to see ads, and get all the other benefits of being a subscriber, you can subscribe here.

If you want to help Moblog grow, you could write a review of your camera phone. Is your cameraphone in this list? If it's not, get in touch and we'll set up a review moblog for you to post sample images and video too, along with your own comprehensive review of your handset.

As always, please keep sending us your site suggestions and ideas via email and the forum and may we take this opportunity to extend a big THANKYOU to all of you for supporting us over the last two years.

Working with Warp Records and the band Maximo Park, we've created a moblog for the band to both moblog their tour, but also for their fans to take part.

The moblog is entirely open to the public, and you can find it at moblog.co.uk/blog/maximo, or follow it on Maximo Park's site, maximopark.com

Nokia are sponsoring N-Series phones both for the band to use and also as prizes for the best images sent in to the moblog each month (as chosen by the band), so get snapping for a chance to win a great new phone, cds, merchandise and more.

cards available now

CardSpy shared moblog. 5000 bright red 'SPIED!' cards are being distributed around the world by moblogUK users, each card with instructions for people to send photos of the cards, in whatever way they choose, to here. The best photo each month with recieve a prize. Existing site members can enter images for fun, but the prizes are really only meant for new users/non members. However - you never know, you might get lucky and win a free t-shirt!

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If you would like some free 'SPIED!' cards to leave in interesting places for interesting people to find, send your name and postal address to spies@moblog.co.uk and we'll put some in the post for you.

Now closed - The Soundtrack to Your Life Competition - this one was very hard to judge, as all our competitions have been, but the judges finally settled on Afternoon's huge four-part entry, Sounds Of The Afternoon. While most entries had some fantastic imagery, we felt that the dedication shown to create this well-crafted essay on music was enough to just take the top spot.

Congratulations to Afternoon, and many thanks to everyone who entered - as usual, we wish we had a prize for everyone!

The Soundtrack to your Life still running!

Memorable Movie Moments Competition results:

1st Place: RareAquaticBadger - the judges couldn't decide which was best, so he wins a joint victory for all three of his entries: The Matrix, Apocalypse Now and James Bond

Runners up: Helen's A Clockwork Orange and Ladislav's Psycho

You all win shiny new K750s, which are on their way to you now. Have fun!

The Memorable Movie Moments moblog will continue to run as a normal shared moblog due to popular request. Please note that we don't have any more K850s to give away, sorry. Many thanks to everyone who entered, there was an extremely high standard of entries, as usual.

Don't forget you can still win a Sony Ericsson W800i in our current competition The Soundtrack To Your Life