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Anyone use textamerica?; or similar..moblog..whatever
Topic Started: Jan 24 2005, 03:06 AM (469 Views)
Deleted User Jan 24 2005, 03:06 AM Post #1
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 So, I have this camera phone, right?
And for a variety of reasons, I'd like to be able to upload the images from it to some website for viewing by myself and others.
I found this site called textamerica.com which has some sort of setup which allows you to email the images from your phone and it automatically reads them or whatever and puts them up on a site for you, and you can rearrange them and customize your page, etc.
Which seems close to ideal for my purposes, except:

Terms of Service
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14. Textamerica.com may use, sell and/or share with its affiliates any information provided by you on this website, including your name, e-mail address, usage patterns, and uploaded images and text.


You can find the link to that TOS at the bottom of the Registration page, just after the following text, which comes after the email address input box:

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Email Address

Your password will be sent to your email address. Notifications you specify will also be sent to this email address. We wont share it.


Now, I think that #14 sounds nasty enough that I probably won't even bother testing out their service, even if it wasn't small print which completely contradicts their warm and fuzzy claim on the much more obvious registration page.
But I looked for some more details and couldn't find any in their FAQ, and their forums are crap and are apparently being replaced by a "help desk", which apparently requires you to register and log in, which I refuse to unless I have more details, so that's useless to me, so..

• Has anybody used their service and if so, what do you think of it?
• Would anyone who is registered there mind using the "help desk" feature to get me some more details about that #14 in the TOS and why it contradicts the claim on the registration page?
• Does anyone have any experience with or even know of any comparable services?
• Does anybody know how they do it and could I do it without them? :ph34r:
(have the images somehow uploaded onto a page from the email you send them)
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DreamWiva Jan 24 2005, 12:54 PM Post #2
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 T-mobile (UK), not sure about the others
If u send a picture message to a phone which is not compatible, the service provider uploads it and sends the reciever a link, so they can go on the net and look at it themselves.
I read about this ages ago but im pretty sure that they still do it.

Using data cable to upload the images on your phone can solve the problem quick and easy

Or you can just email the picture from your phone, if your phone can send emails that is.
Theres also Yahoo mobile that is free for a limited time, but normal pic message charges apply.
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Sipefree Feb 1 2005, 02:58 PM Post #3
Moved to paid hosting.
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 @Phrank: register a disposable email address @ yahoo or MSN and log into their Help Desk.
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Stefan Feb 1 2005, 03:13 PM Post #4
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 I found this: http://www.mobloguk.com/

TOS: http://moblog.co.uk/tandc.php
didn't read it fully, but you're the owner of your pics, and they'll ask if they want to use anything.
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Jory Feb 1 2005, 03:36 PM Post #5
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 i read it (http://moblog.co.uk/tandc.php ), says the'll check if your picts are porn, illigal, fraud, harming there mirrors, against copyright laws or something like that.
also no scripts (so no pop-ups and stuff), no messing with other users picts, nothing bigger than 1280x1024 pixels, and you can't use it as a pict storage for others sites.

(took them 10 times as much text to say this, and they talk boring :P )

sounds like what you wanted
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Deleted User Feb 1 2005, 04:38 PM Post #6
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 Thanks. :)

I could just email them from my phone to some account and give my friends the password or whatever, which I might do anyway, but I thought it would be cool to have them magically appear on a website. :$
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