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Blogging With Camera Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-dollar-an-entry dept.

Zastrossi writes "The Register reports that NewBay Software, "is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or 'blogs' using only their phones." Sounds like a pretty sound idea, particularly in that they're selling to the telcos as opposed to consumers. SMS was one revenue source for mobile providers, will camera phones become another?"

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  1. Already done it by Uhh_Duh · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wrote a quick perl script to do this for a friend who has a camera phone.

    It picks up the incoming mail via a sendmail pipe (in /etc/aliases) which routes it to a perl script which parses out the email content and attachments (pictures from the phone) and posts them to a MySQL database. The front-end of the project involved CGI scripts that would talk to the MySQL database and display the data to the web.

    Result? Real-time blogging from the camera with pictures and text! Total lines of code? Less than 100.

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