The Year in Picturephones
Published December 18, 2003
-- Canada's national multimedia news agency offers downloads to mobile phones of images from today's top news stories and sports photo agency Empics has announced the launch of picture alerts of the latest sports news.
....-- Officers in Scotland are now photographing graffiti with their camera phones. The images are stored away in a database for matching and identifying with the individuals responsible.
-- At the Emmy Awards, mobile users were able to end special requests to a Nokia observation camera by text messaging, for a photo of their favorite star to be sent directly to their mobile phone.
-- A contractor in the business of sealing driveways, has been taking pictures of any pre-existing tar splatters on a customer's garage or house. "Just so if a customer asks, I can say, "Here, look, that was there before I started."
....-- When someone backed into a car, got out and inspected the damage - then drove off without leaving any details - a passerby took a shot of his car and the rear number plate, and left a note for the victim. Later e-mailing him a shot of the car for his insurance claim.
-- And camera phones have brought about the onset of a whole new form of online diaries, called photoblogs, where camera phone users can post their pictures while on the move. Mostly of a personal nature, next year is sure to see a widespread use of professional moblogs, such as Textamerica 's launch of the official moblog for the CTIA event held in Las Vegas or news reporting photoblogs such as those documenting the New York blackout, the anti war protests around the world, the California fire, The California grocery worker strike - all reaching a larger audience than just family and friends. There's much more.
In line with Mac Diva's post, they also list various cases that have generated privacy concerns, here.
- The Year in Picturephones
- Published: December 18, 2003
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- Writer: Eric Olsen
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ah, good to see somebody as cranky as me about this type of stuff at concerts.
I was guilty of the cell-phone-at-concert thing this summer. No camera on my phone, but DAMN was I juiced at being in the pit at a Springsteen show in NJ! I just had to call my friend's house -- where a bunch of friends were spending the night -- and leave a bit 'o Bruce on the answering machine.
It was a compulsion. Couldn't stop myself. The girls laughed.
I think the loud talking problem at concerts is a bigger one. Screws up the bootleg recordings. ;-)
I think the loud talking problem at concerts is a bigger one. Screws up the bootleg recordings. ;-)
You are now officially my friend. Hello friend.
I could see using the cell phone to snap a few concert photos to share with friends on the moblog. I'm not sure about a raise the lighter thing though.
There are people freaked out about this privacy stuff though, and some of the concerns are legitimate.
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-- At concerts, instead of using lighters, fans raise their cell phones, and snap away - despite the standard ban on cameras - and hold them up so their buddy at home can hear, something referred to as a "cellcert".
This, in addition to the growing number of people who WON'T SHUT UP, is one of my top all-time most annoying concert behaviors. And come on, the sound of an extremely loud concert through the crappy mic on a cellphone must sound horrendous. I just want to smack those phones out of their hands when I see one shoot into the air.