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Blogging With Camera Phones
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?"
Surely it'll be pretty damn' easy to /. a mobile phone? Multiprocessor Nokias, anybody???
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Sounds like a waste of time. Blogging with your phone will only result in mis-typed entries with poorly lit, poorly framed and blurry photos of famous landmarks that you can't quite make out and the result looks kind of like New Jersey or unrecognizable people who aren't particularly attractive or even remotely intersting even if drugs and/or alcohol were involved at 3:22AM when they were filmed on the way to yet another bar or club overcharging due to the lateness of the hour or the so called exclusivity of the place. Eck.
What's next? Being able to create and maintain Weblogs from computers?? What an incredible age we live in!
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Now the CowboyNeil option will come with a picture. The HORROR! THE HORROR!
The camgirl/guy, IM, and the Blog.
Mmmm....mobile camgirl diaries.....
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If only somebody can invent software that would make the random writings/thoughts of millions of nitwits worth reading.
THAT would be a blog revolution, my friends.
Admittedly, there may be 10 or less that are worthy of a visit, or can justify their reason to be, but far more often than not, I don't see the point. "Everyone Can Be A Publisher", but I question, Should They?
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I only use my sanyo-5300 so I can remember hot women the next day... since I tend to drink a bit on the heavy side whilst I'm out about town. :)
Not that scores of people are doing this already using the Danger Sidekick, or anything.
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The law may have changed, but when I lived in NYC, people had to get permission to use your image if they were shooting film or taking photos for publication. I wonder how blogging one's picture phone will play into such privacy issues?
That said, I could see how this would be useful, or at least interesting when a news story breaks, e.g. train derailment, so we can all glare at the dead bodys instead of waiting until we get home to watch the cable news.
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Anyone else feel that there's probably a direct relation between the growing popularity of blogging and the growing number of unemployed IT workers?
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I wrote a quick perl script to do this for a friend who has a camera phone.
/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.
It picks up the incoming mail via a sendmail pipe (in
Result? Real-time blogging from the camera with pictures and text! Total lines of code? Less than 100.
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GSM was really, really smart engineering, which took off because the various stakeholders (wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, network equipment providers) pooled their resources and ideas and achieved a great standard which served everybody (even, if not most the users).
SMS was actually a byproduct of that standard and nobody had an idea how much it would take off. It's immensly successful and a nice source of additional revenue for the carriers.
Camera phones however seems more to be a product of marketing cree^H^H^H^Hexperts in the sense that they try to create a need, which otherwise doesn't exist.
Of course every industry player is very interested in multimedia messaging to succeed. The manufacturers like to sell new, snazzy and expensive phones, carriers charge an arm and a leg and have a huge interest in mms taking off and network equipment providers can sell nice upgrades to the wireless infrastructure.
Now if the consumers play nice, or if this is another wap fiasko in the making only time will tell.
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And don't forget this gem regarding voyeurism with cell phones. My favorite quote?
The girl was alerted to his presence by the noise emitted by the phone camera's shutter. She turned around to catch Hamano with his hands between her legs