Hewlett-Packard, together with Estonian-based Fromdistance and Helsinki-based Virtaamo, have produced video-blog and video-podcast services for the MobileMonday Global Summit, which takes place in Helsinki on May 8, 2006. The service is accessible at www.mobilemonday.net/blog from May 8 onwards.

HP has produced and enabled several video-blog services, for instance for Kemopetrol (www.kemopetrol.com), a popular Finnish pop/rock band and for SXSW (South by Southwest) music event in March in Austin, Texas (www.sxsw.com).

Video-blogging is an example of a new kind of social media and the way of communicating. HP technology enables easy publishing and distribution, providing communities of people with common interests, the abiliti to share content while on the move. All that is needed is a modern mobile phone with video screening capabilities. The video material is automatically transferred online to a video-blog service.

"The worldwide success of MobileMonday events shows that the development and implementation of advanced mobile services interests companies and organizations all over the world. The video-blog service at the MobileMonday Global Summit opens up the event for people who don't have the chance to be there in person", says HP's Peter Vesterbacka, one of the founding members of MobileMonday.