I’m off to Munich next week, where I’ll be chairing day 2 of the Fixed-Mobile Convergence Summit organsied by IIR Conferences, so if you’re in the area or attending the conference, say hello!

Pitch has been mentioned in a report from 3GSM on CNN. Check out the top video on the CNN website, along with the third to last paragaph…

The website to accompany the pitch Mobile Network service has now gone live. Any Pitch member can set up a password using their mobile and then access almost all of Pitch through the web.

With the launch of the website, there are some added features available:

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

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

To translate slightly: You can, using your PC, chat with your friends who are on their mobile, and vice versa. You can also upload almost any video or picture (OK, we limit you to 2Mb or smaller file size) from your PC and then download it to your mobile - we do all the conversion for you, free of charge.

All the chatting & commenting functions you can do on your mobile you can also do on the web, and anything you do on the web will also appear on mobile.

Pitch members automatically get a URL that is unique as well - mine is www.pitch.mobi/cro - which is very easy to remember, as it’s my Pitch Tag!

And best of wall, there’s no client to download to your phone - as long as you phone supports WAP, you can access Pitch :)

You can tell how busy I’ve been with Pitch recently - the announcement that Microsoft will be including support for OpenID totally passed me by.

My comment: Yay!

I’ve always been partial to the idea of OpenID, especially as it’s similar to my own thoughts on transient identity. I’m also planning on implementing an OpenID server into Pitch.