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Sunday, August 01, 2004
PlaNetwork Journal -> Anybody Can Be TV: How P2P Home Video will Challenge The Network News
PlaNetwork Journal -> Anybody Can Be TV: How P2P Home Video will Challenge The Network News: This is an interesting (long) article on how the convergence of P2P, Video Blogs and syndication can become a powerful driver for unmediated journalism.
Monday, June 21, 2004
More uses for camera phones
picturephoning.com: More uses for camera phones
and
picturephoning.com: How people and businesses are using video phones
EyeBlogging
picturephoning.com: EyeBlogging
Interesting stuff for video blogging:
"Researchers at Human Media Lab, Queen's University in Canada have built special glasses that can sense when someone else makes eye contact with you, and activates a mini camera to record the event.
The footage is uploaded to the eyeBlog. It's supposed to make life easier. If you don't mind uh, wearing funny glasses.
From picturephoning.com via Slashdot via Gizmodo."
PHOTO PHONES STAR IN HISPANIC MUSIC TOUR PROMOTION
PHOTO PHONES STAR IN HISPANIC MUSIC TOUR PROMOTION
So Verizon finally realizes that cam phones in concerts aren't a bad idea - for promoting their other commodtiies - ringtones etc.
SENT: America's first phonecam art show.
SENT: America's first phonecam art show. I didn't realize SENT is being sponsored by MOTOROLA>
Camera phone test proves a flop for emergency services
picturephoning.com: Camera phone test proves a flop for emergency services
Somebody needs to tell these public safety folks that MMS-based moblogging is not the solution for real-time life-critical applications.
Monday, April 19, 2004
Amy Jo Kim's presentation at Game Developer's Conference - Social trends in Mobile Entertainment
Amy Jo Kim's presentation at Game Developer's Conference, is quite an interesting read for ppl interested in location based services and the impact of virtual communities. Also, check out her web site: http://socialdesigner.net/ and blog http://socialarchitect.typepad.com/
TheFeature :: Moblogging Uptake Weak, Even in Japan
TheFeature has an interesting article - Moblogging Uptake Weak, Even in Japan. The debate following are also rather interesting. I need to look up the related links.
TheFeature :: Moblogging Uptake Weak, Even in Japan
TheFeature has an interesting article - Moblogging Uptake Weak, Even in Japan. The debate following are also rather interesting. I need to look up the related links.
Creative Commons-licensed phonecam blogging service
picturephoning.com reports on yet another moblog. This one is form UK and is a Creative Commons-licensed phonecam blogging service, supported by users.
Boston.com / Sports / Marathon Central
Courtesy, Verizon, the Boston Marathon is encouragin people to post camera phone-taken pics of the event. I like the picture comparing superman with flash in the link.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Cingular, Kodak sponsor $10,000 camera phone "Share a Smile" contest
Reiter reports that Cingular, Kodak sponsor $10,000 camera phone "Share a Smile" contest. This is defintely an interesting way for Kodak to promote their OPhoto service.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
The Camphone Revolution
An interesting Business Week article on camera phonesBW Online | April 12, 2004 | The Camphone Revolution.
"..This year, says Strategy Analytics, a research company in Newton Centre, Mass., camera phone sales should double, to 169 million units, or about a quarter of all handsets. By 2006 the number could top 380 million..."
"...Mobile operators from Britain's Vodafone PLC to Sprint PCS Group (PCS ) in the U.S. have launched services that let customers upload photos from cell phones to online sites, where the pictures can be stored or sent off to be printed. Manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ), Seiko Epson, and Canon (CAJ ) are rolling out inexpensive color photo printers that connect wirelessly to handsets -- with no need to store pictures first on a PC...."
"... Katsumi Ihara, president of cell-phone maker Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, says Sony Corp. (SNE ) has ceded the low-end camera market to mobile phones....."
Study shows camera phone users don't always send photos
Bad news for all those carriers subsidising camera phones,WirelessWeek.com reports that only 9.25% of the pictures taken by camera phone users are send as picture messages (the rea$on why these camera phone$ get $ub$idised).
I am unsure how to digest this report - true only a small percentage of pics might be sent - but the truth is since its a digital cam, people tend to take a LOT of low quality pics - most of them blurry and out of focus. So, I wouldn't be surprised that only 15% of these pics are worth showing anyone else and out of that if 2/3rds or 10% of the total are sent out, hey, thats not bad.
Or maybe people just don't like sending pics around, they just like storing them locally.....?
Soap on mobiles as TV goes tiny.
I guess this article adds more masala to all the talk we hear about DVB for mobile phones: Soap on mobiles as TV goes tiny. 04/04/2004. ABC News Online
I wonder how this is going to take off - especially with the limited attention span that mobile phone users have. As a PC viewer of videos, I realize how limited our attention span can be - especially when there are so many things to distract you. As a mobile user, the magnitude of distractions seems to be much higher. News Corp's approach to make 1 minute videos makes sense, but how many content generators are going to generate content - its going to be a chicken an egg story once again - will it be content first and users later or vice versa ?
Friday, April 02, 2004
Motorola Mediacenter - Graphics Library of Motorola Phones et. al.
I was going through this blog's access log - seems like a lot of people looking for pictures of Motorola phones get here via Google. In case you are one of those, please go to: Motorola Mediacenter - Graphics Library. This is the official site with high resolution images of Motorola phones and devices.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
MSN BlogBot
According to the Seattle PI [via the folks at Feedster], the MSN BlogBot is a blog/RSS feed search tool to be launched by Micorosft.
Anwar's random reading on topics related to mobile technology, mobile blogging, location based services and other things techie. (PS: The views expressed here are my own and NOT of my employer). I've stopped updating this blog. Used to update it when I worked at MOTorola and worked on MobILITY services - hence the name.
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