I recently posted that the “Mobile Upload” functionality in Facebook (to post pics from my iPhone to my Facebook account via Gmail) was broken.  Well, it must have been something on Facebook’s side… I didn’t change anything and now it’s working again.  Either way it’s a good thing.  My workaround to moblog to Flickr was okay, but it was a disconnect in getting pics integrated into Facebook, e.g. tagging people in the pics.  Hopefully this lasts a while. 

For the past several weeks I’ve been moblogging pics directly from my iPhone to my Facebook photo albums by simply Gmailing the pic to Facebook. Worked great… I’d snap a pic and in minutes it would be up on my Facebook. Well, it looks like Facebook has discontinued support of this method and is now only allowing mobile uploads via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) transfers. No biggie right? Well, unfortunately the iPhone does not include MMS support… Yup, there is currently no mechanism in the iPhone to MMS a picture to another cell phone (or to Facebook for this matter). Someone please tell me I’m missing something here, but I’m pretty sure I’m not. Ironically, this coincided with me updating my iPhone to firmware v1.1.1. I don’t see how the firmware update could be to blame, but you never know.

So, now what to do about moblogging? I tried pxPipe as an alternative way to upload pics to Facebook, but it looks like they’re affected too… just didn’t work. I think for now I’ll just be moblogging pics to my Flickr or SmugMug. As for posting to Facebook, I’ll have to manually transfer pics to my albums for now. Ugh, so much for “real time”. Hopefully MMS support is slated for a future iPhone firmware update. We’ll see…