As promised, here's my excuse for being more absent than present for the past few weeks: The web version of the Pitch Mobile Community has now launched, and as I'm the lead developer on both the Web and WAP side of things, I've been a little busy working my fingers to the bone in WML, HTML, CSS and a little javascript :)

With the launch of the website, I've also extended the functionality of the WAP service. Here's the big list of stuff the service now supports:

Cross-platform chat
* Mobile to PC to mobile personal chat
* Mobile to PC to mobile group chat
* Mobile to PC to mobile pitchmail (email internal to the site)

Video upload, sharing & commenting
* upload via mobile and view on the web or mobile
* upload via web and view on mobile or web
* supported formats: 3gp, avi, divx, xvid, mpg, flv, mp4
(upload in any of these formats at it's automatically converted to play on both web & mobile...)

Image upload, sharing & commenting
* upload via mobile and view on the web or mobile
* upload via web and view on mobile or web

Mixed content albums
* have videos and images in the same virtual photo album
* share albums with the world, your friends or keep them private
* per-image/per-video/per-album comments

Blogging
* blog from web, appears on phone
* blog from phone, appears on web

WAP site persanalisation
* turn on or off portions of your profile for display in WAP

Personalised URL
* The nickname (PitchTag) you register with also acts as a URL to take visitors to your Web page. For example, going to http://www.pitch.mobi/cro will take you to my page :)

We haven't really done any marketing of the site yet, but we've already topped 20,000 users (and been featured on CNN during a report about 3GSM, which was nice). I've spent a lot of time on this to make sure that the service truly is cross-platform, and that chatting with people via your PC, whilst they are on their phones really is as seamless as it appears.