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by James Chutter | January 23, 2008 at 08:03 pm
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The cellphone novel was born in 2000 after a home-page-making Web site, Maho no i-rando, realized that many users were writing novels on their blogs; it tinkered with its software to allow users to upload works in progress and readers to comment, creating the serialized cellphone novel. But the number of users uploading novels began booming only two to three years ago, and the number of novels listed on the site reached one million last month, according to Maho no i-rando.
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at 20:27 on January 23rd, 2008
As North Americans, why are we always so far behind when it comes to mobile technologies and their creative applications? Is it our cell phone providers that make it so prohibitive?
at 06:35 on January 24th, 2008
In Canada, it's most likely because our population is so low... the market is tiny, so there isn't much incentive for innovation. My carrier has trouble delivering SMS, never mindstreaming video. (Writing a novel using T9 would be a fascinatingly frustrating experience- it would be even cooler if the author/composer couldn't alter any fo the predictive-text choices, and readers just had to figure it out...)