Mobog
Mobog is a service which allows people to upload pictures from a camera phone to the Mobog website. Users can comment on each picture and lively and often heated exchanges are common.
Most pictures uploaded to Mobog are of an adult nature.
The site was designed by Philip J. Kaplan of Fuckedcompany, but was shut down in September 2007, the reason Kaplan explains on his site pud.com:
"The site was always kinda broken because I didn't spocus On It (one day I'll post something about "spocus" -- speed & focus). Nevertheless, at its height there was a new pic posted every second.
But the problem with publishing user generated photos on the Internet, is that it will ultimately devolve into [...] unless heavily moderated. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Photobucket review every single photo that reaches the sites, and porno pics are removed.
It's pretty easy to build a system for cheap laborers around the world to review pics and pluck out the dirty ones. But I never got around to it.
And what started out as clean wholesome fun, turned into the world's largest collection of penis pictures on the Internet. Every couple of minutes, someone new would send in a picture of their penis.
And it was accelerating.
I became less concerned with the number of "unique users" visiting my site, and became worried about the number of unique penises. With about 1,000 unique penises per day, doubling every 2 weeks, I calculated that by the year 2009, one-in-three men in the United States will have uploaded a picture of his penis to my website.
Anyway, I shut it down. One of the more unfortunate parts is that -- as I was in the process of shutting it down -- I was unexpectedly informed that FHM magazine chose Mobog as #1 in their list of "50 most addictive websites."
Ah well."
External links
- Top Mobogs
- Mobog main site Warning: this site contains adult content.