Utterz is going global. Launching in 17 new countries, the mobile blogging tool is looking to cross the world with its services, offering integrated options with existing blogging platforms we've all become quite familiar with in the past few years, such as Wordpress, Blogger and Twitter.
If that news wasn't exciting enough, here's something to get your blood pressure going: Utterz is also releasing a new video and audio capture tool, as well as conversational threading capabilities. I'll touch on the new audio and video capture tool, and then break down a few details regarding the conversational threading tool.
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The video and audio capture is significant mainly because this is the obvious direction in which mobile blogging is headed, especially for the micro-blogging crowd. It's a very basic concept that's becoming more accessible thanks to open standards, and increasingly viable as recent technology has allotted for such capabilities to come about. The concept I speak of is the introduction of action items for additional media to be inserted into an existing account, whatever that account may be.
For Utterz, the account is for mobile blogging. That being said, the easiest way to get audio and video content into your Utterz account is for Utterz to offer audio and video capture directly from its service. This is something we've seen from the likes of Box.net, Magnify and Sclipo.
Now, back to the conversational threading feature--this is Utterz way of incorporating all of its new bells and whistles. That means you can leave audio and video comments in addition to text comments, in an integrated fashion. Utterz is hoping that, by offering direct options for audio and visual content upload, you'll be more encouraged to engage in multimedia content creation. Does this make you want to make more videos?
Here's the short list for countries with available local country codes, provided by Utterz:
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Finland
France
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom