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Sex sells, cam-phone style.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but cnet reports that the rise of moblogs is being driven in large part by risque photos of pretty young things. (Sometimes with octopi.) After some bloviating by the analysts about how the real future of camphones are in the real estate business (yeah, right) the sto
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This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but cnet reports that the rise of moblogs is being driven in large part by risque photos of pretty young things. (Sometimes with octopi.) After some bloviating by the analysts about how the real future of camphones are in the real estate business (yeah, right) the story gets to the point: “I might not want my 5-year-old on the site,” says Chris Hoar, a founder of moblog site TextAmerica. “It’s risque at best.” No better way to keep people racking up the minutes on their calling plans.

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