Thumbcast
Thumbcast is a term used for the mobile delivery of text, picture, audio, or video content via
mobile phones
.
Timeline
- On 15 March 2007 US mobile media company 80108 Media launches their public Web site at [1], referring to the SMS subscription channels as thumbcasts. The company provided the following brief definition for the term:
Think: podcast for your phone. Our thumbcasts are hand-crafted by local correspondents and delivered direct to you as text messages.
- On 9 April 2007 the Boston Globe published an article titled Snippets of news, via cellphonewith the following opening sentence:
Thumbcasts are coming to Boston.
The term 'thumbcast' became one of that day's 'Hot Searches' on the site.
References
Johnson, Carolyn (2007-04-09). "Snippets of news, via cellphone". The Boston Globe. New York Times. pp. E1, E4. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
See also
- Podcast - Podcasting
- Phonecast - Phonecasting
- Screencast - Screen Capture Video Recording
- Videocast- Videocasting
- Micro-blogging- Micro-blogging