Moblog.co.uk launches hot new look

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I got a note in from Alfie over at MoblogUK who, fresh from a 5am stint, reports that he and the team have re-designed the site and substantially upgraded the service.

Moblog is one of the most influential mobile photo blogging sites with a large and dedicated audience of MMSers. They have one of the most extensive MMS-strippers known to man. (You know if you send a picture message anywhere, it generally comes through with a heck of a lot of branding courtesy of your mobile operator? Their system strips all that gunk out — and does it for TONS of operators worldwide. Very smart.)

So there’s a new theme — geared around a more welcoming experience for new and existing users. I particularly like their ‘busyness’ section on the frontpage which highlights the posts with the most recent comment activity.

They’ve stuck a common navigation thread at the top so you can find your way around, they’ve knocked up a rather extensive tag cloud together with an array of other updates and improvements.

Check out, for example, the new Three X-Series Moblog — it’s just excellent to see a major mobile operator playing with and using these sorts of tools.

I like the graceful way they’ve integrated video into the site — here’s an example. (I’d really like to see flash encoded video in a later Moblog release.)

The update is a hit with the users. I had no doubt it would be 😉 Check out mat’s post on the subject (You can tell he’s one of the Moblog tech geniuses because if you click on his user profile, his userid is 1. Heh.)

You can get lost on Moblog for hours looking at the pictures. The quality uploaded by some of the users is just amazing. For example, here’s a story of a young couple, a hilariously shaped cheese twist and Jemima the duck — in glorious technicolor.