netomat Offers Flickr Updates Via Mobile Phone

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

netomat, a beta service that allows you to get, create and send content to your “hub”, has announced that they have optimized their service to work with Flickr. Of course, most people know about Flickr, one of the most popular photo-sharing sites. netomat allows you to create a hub, which is an online space you can create to get and share pictures and text messages. Each hub you create is a private group with you as the owner. You and your friends can view and update your hubs via a PC or your phone. And it’s free.

Now when a Flickr group - ranging from the funky to the sublime - has new content, netomat subscribers can receive the image resized for mobile phones along with any associated text. netomat hub members can also invite friends to their Flickr hub for group chat about the Flickr content.

To receive Flickr updates simply sign up with netomat and click “Start a hub” Members can then choose the netomat Flickr news feed or start a new hub with the unique RSS 2.0 or Atom feed link found at the bottom of each Flickr group page. The new content will then be sent to members’ mobile phones, PCs or both, whichever they prefer. Source: netomat Press Release

We Say: The press release itself isn’t due to go out until tomorrow, so you, our readers, are getting a jump on the rest of the Web. I hadn’t heard of netomat before getting the press release, but reading through their FAQ, it sounds like a great way to interface with friends. And the Flickr tie-in is a great idea as well.