Comments on: Mogreet Grabs $5 Million For Mobile Video Messaging Platform

By: Mogreet recibe 5M en Serie B

Mogreet recibe 5M en Serie B — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:51:40 +0000

[...] una plataforma de distribución de mensajes de vídeo a través de teléfonos móviles, ha recibido una ronda de financiación Serie B de 5 millones de [...]

By: Flypaper.tv » Blog Archive » Mogreets are coming…

Flypaper.tv » Blog Archive » Mogreets are coming… — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:07:42 +0000

[...] to Techcrunch “Mogreets are…video files compressed to 100 kilobits or less, are priced between $0.49 [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:45:35 +0000

Geoff, the G1 actually lets you create and edit your own media ON THE PHONE. Check the “market” from the main menu on the G1.

View media, click the share button, and enter the first couple letters in the contact and click send.

If you can’t manage that, you’re a retard. Besides the fact that the G1 does YouTube as an App.

This app isn’t needed anymore. If the guys that made it had any brains they would rebuild it as a G1 app instead.

Remember Teleflip?
“Man, we have a patent!!! Like dude”
Our phone turns crappy phones into Email MACHINES!!!

YEAHHHHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAAHHHH

You are the weakest link goodbye.
http://gigaom.c...ipped-for-good/

Don’t try to upgrade terd devices. That is the lesson learned.

Get with the program or get out of business. Legacy is a swear word.

“I wouldn’t call your scenario a “flawless victory””

You’re right, it’s called FATALITY !!!

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:32:49 +0000

One person’s dumb product is another’s little bit of personalized pleasure.

Re ‘free;’ agreed, but mobile pipes are tightly controlled by the carriers so tough to make any on-deck product that’s not on the up and up. A WAP product would circumvent that, but would need a business model like ad-supported ‘cards.’ And the WAP / real-internet-on-phone market is still small compared to the number of dumb phones out there. Someone will probably try free, pirated content to phones, but not yet.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:57:19 +0000

Chris, the iPhone and the G1 represent less than 5% of the US Market. While email is certainly a compelling delivery mechanism, it still only applies to those who use their mobile devices for email. I wouldn’t call your scenario a “flawless victory” for the majority of the market who need you to send them an SMS or an MMS to reach their mobile with the movie content.

Another interesting step in your process begs a question.
“Select the file”

Are you going to create the video that you wish to send? If so, that adds a whole string of previous effort to get you to the point where you have the file that you wish to send. Similar to the ringtone and wallpaper business models, sure, some people will figure out how to create and apply their own content to their mobile devices. The majority of folks will go ahead and do it the “easy” way for a small fee.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:33:49 +0000

Hit the Gmail button, select the file, type the 1rst 2 digits of the contact then hit.the bsend button.

Google phone wins flawless victory

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:12:33 +0000

I smell some serious astroturfing in these comments. You know people, you could have just given an official response instead of making anonymous comments in praise of some service as silly as ring tones.

People were dumb enough to buy ringtones, so maybe this will work.

One more thing: Not many people care is the content is legally licensed or not. If they can do it for free, they will.

By: T$$

T$$ — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:41:10 +0000

Sounds cool. I like how they’re bridging mobile and video for all of us non-iphoners.

By: Rumi

Rumi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:29:29 +0000

Oh and in regards to greeting card pricing, brandingstrategyinsider.com reporting 89% of greeting cards being priced over $2.00. A potential “unlimited monthly Mogreet” package of $5 is a steal! If the average person ideally wanted to send a greeting a day that is about 16 cents a day.

By: Rumi

Rumi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:20:41 +0000

Interesting point on IPhone and Google, sure you can use Avid, cut a 7 second video of a Guns and Roses video, even strip the audio, send it via text and you are looking at about $30,000k in a one time licensing fee for the “no audio” version plus probably triple that in legal fees. Mogreet is the first to actually have deals in place with motion picture houses, etc. Rock on Mogreet. Think you guys are onto something big!

By: mulletsringer

mulletsringer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:10:42 +0000

What a cool application! I can see a ton of kids sending these to their friends (in a way it reminds me of when ringtones were first introduced). I remember first hearing about downloadable ringtones and then as time went by EVERY phone had some funny jingle. My 60-year-old father now has ringtones on his phone… I sense the same ubiquity for sending a “mogreet”.

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:05:45 +0000

def agree that it’s great to see mobile innovation still thriving and developing. and to the point above, when compared to $4 generic hallmark greeting cards, it’s a pretty fair deal.

By: phenom

phenom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:40:53 +0000

Nice

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Business 2.0 Press

Business 2.0 Press — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:34:29 +0000

Mogreet Raises $5 M Series B, Free Invites…

Mogreet.com was founded in 2006 in Venice Beach, CA and is a video messaging start-up that has just raised $5 M in VC series B funding led by existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson Frontier. Users can send mogreets (Mobile Greeting) via an MMS or as…

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:19:19 +0000

You CAN’T “do this … for free right now.” These are little seven second “greeting cards” delivered to a phone. The reason they’re delivered as 3gp via MMS is that most phones can receive and display them. Good luck sending a legally obtained Godfather video ‘card’ to a phone w/o using a service like Mogreet.

By: tryboy

tryboy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:34:19 +0000

http://apps.fac.../voo-zoomobile/

to try mobile greeting cards – you can win money!

By: MessageLocator.com

MessageLocator.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:27:57 +0000

seems a bit pricey in a recession. the domain hurts. mogreat, mograte, mogreet, moregreet, moregreats moregreets, mogreats. does it matter? better get those variation domains before someone else does.

PlatformLocator.com- Got Base?

By: tommeny1996

tommeny1996 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:03:27 +0000

Yes! I agree up.

By: Mogreet Grabs $5 Million For Mobile Video Messaging Platform | MoNews

Mogreet Grabs $5 Million For Mobile Video Messaging Platform | MoNews — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:44:43 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:12:30 +0000

Good to see the mobile web and video advancing even in tough economic times.

By: besidethat

besidethat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:31:03 +0000

“sick of flickr making all my pics public by default” , how much time it will take from you to switch it to private ?

By: az

az — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:57:01 +0000

ya but a lot of phones cant do what iphone or google phones will do and you can still make money – hence why DFJ would invest. duh.

i mean callwave made money from selling a call answering service for dial-up internet connections. Also think international.

By: Mogreetがモバイルのビデオメッセージプラットホームで$5Mを調達

Mogreetがモバイルのビデオメッセージプラットホームで$5Mを調達 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:10:10 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:05:35 +0000

“which can be delivered by MMS”

“Mogreets, which are in essence video files compressed to 100 kilobits or less, are priced between $0.49 and $0.99″

LOL, Both the iPhone and the Google phone can do this all by themselves for free right now. Click media->Send as Gmail->Enter first 2 characters of contact->Click send

Mogreet == obsolete

Thanks Google

BTW, I switched from Flickr to Picasa today and did not renew my pro Flickr account. I am sick of flickr making all my pics public by default. People need some privacy in today’s world. BTW, the picasa iframe viewer for large images totally sucks, but I can live with it for the free 1 GB storage.