Concept TBA ?
Register (or not), Upload, & Vote!
For this week Matt and I decided to work with blip.tv and their api. We created a blog - http://elayat.blogspot.com/ - which blip would automatically cross-post to whenever something is posted to the blip show page. The idea is that users can upload images or video from their phones to yelayats@gmail.com relating to the daily theme, and then vote on the best posts.
A user can also choose to register a username instead of posting anonymously. To register, simply send a text message to 'yelayats@gmail.com' with the keyword register followed by a name of your choosing. For example, register yasmin, associated my phonenumber with the username 'yasmin', so my posts are from yasmin instead of anonymous mobile user.
Users can post images or video to the blog by sending an email to yelayats@gmail.com with their phone. The text body of the message acts as the description for the blog post. It will be posted right away, if it's a video, we upload using the blip api, if it's an image we simply email the blog. The titles of the post are the authors of the post. Users can also vote for the best entries.
We are having a problem with the concept because Matt want sto make it all about Obama, of course. Don't get me wrong, I love Obama, but I don't know what kind of content people would send from their phones. I also wanted to do a ridiculous daily theme, but that also needs to further developed. Ideas?