tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57046992012-01-31T01:23:54.178-06:00Anwar'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.Anwarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179227915711362465noreply@blogger.comBlogger2221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704699.post-1091383004768395652004-08-01T12:56:00.000-05:002004-08-01T12:56:44.766-05:00

reBlog.org

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Steve Garfield's Video Blog: July 2004

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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.

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picturephoning.com: More uses for camera phones and picturephoning.com: How people and businesses are using video phones

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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

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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.

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SENT: America's first phonecam art show. I didn't realize SENT is being sponsored by MOTOROLA>

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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.

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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/

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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.

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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.

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picturephoning.com reports on yet another moblog. This one is form UK and is a Creative Commons-licensed phonecam blogging service, supported by users.

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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.

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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.

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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 (

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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

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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

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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.

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hex.is - another blogging platform vendor. I need to check them out.

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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.

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Chile gets into the Mobile TV frenzy. Alan Reiter reports via PicturePhoning.com, Telefonica Movil in Chile offers TV on camera phones. It costs 1 cent per Kb for downloaded video and half-cent for streaming media. This is cheaper than my data plan with NEXTEL (which I upgraded yesterday to a 10MB data plan yesterday), but I've learnt from experience that these Kbs add up faster than you know it.

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Alan Reiter blogs that CNET News reports textamerica signs deal with "top five" cellular operator. Like he mentions, I am not sure if its a top 5 US carrier or top 5 'international' carrier...

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Earthcam launches a moblog-like service to compliment their webcam registry service. EarthCam Mobile - Webcam Service for Mobile Phones - MyCam. Alan Reiter reports: "Subscribers need to download Earthcam's Broadcaster software in order to transmit webcam images from computers to their handsets. The software permits motion detection with SMS alerts." I wonder how many people actually use their

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Reiter's Camera Phone Report blogs on Picostation - a mobile blogging client solution for mobile devices. The client is available for Symbian and J2ME and is compatible with Blogger.com, MovableType and LiveJournal. What interests the most is the fact that PicoStation is founded by the Ramadan bothers (Mazin & Zeyad) - founders of 4thpass Inc. (a leading provider of mobile application

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Damient Stolarz had a presentation at the OReilly Emerging Tech conference in Feb on Carbot - GeoBlogging in cars. Interesting to see people trying to enter niche markets. I wonder how long it would take to get something like geoblogging main stream. I understand there are a lot of issues that need to be resolved.... I guess thats why there are researchers like us working in this area.

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Motorola announced a slew of new phones at the CTIA Wireless 2004. The V710 is a sleek looking CDMA phone with megapixel camera, bluetooth, polyphonic speakers and running BREW. The A845 and A840 are 3G phones with the A840 having the ability to work on GSM and CDMA - besides the usual set of features, the A845 comes with AGPS. Personally I like the V710 and the A840 - the rest of the 3G phones

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Forgot to post this post last week: ChristianLindholm.com: First Lifeblog compatible phone launched. Also, this is Nokia's official site for LifeBlog

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picturephoning.com: Nextel plans to introduce camera phones and MMS capabilities this year I wish I could say more, but being Motorolan, would like to hold back. All I can say are these new iDEN phones are pretty cool ! :-)

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Six Apart Announces NTT License of Type Pad for New Blogzine Weblogging Service. This is a blog service for NTT's Open Computer Network - a large-scale domestic Internet connection service provided by NTT Com. With Joi Ito taking time off from his venture firm and closely working with Six Apart, I am sure we can expect a lot more from these guys real soon.

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TypeKey is a new "free, open system providing a central identity that anyone can use to log in and post comments on blogs and other web sites." Wonder if Six Apart plans to play the MS Passport/Sun Liberty Alliance game all over. I hope they manage to keep it free and open.

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picturephoning.com reports on mensablogs.com: India's first moblogging consumer portal. Users can publish text, picture and audio, video clips from their camera phones and share messages with others, create and share their online albums. Each user is provided with 3 MB space free and can make their post public or private.

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textually.org reports a WSJ article stating that Viruses May Tie Up Cellphones. My surmise would be that since wireless carriers have a much greater control on the data being sent across their networks, this issue could more easily be kept under wraps as opposed to the traditional Internet. Besides companies such as 4thpass provide solutions to filter downloaded mobile phone software within the

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picturephoning.com: Moblogs on stop-the-war protests. I was driving in downtown Chicago when I noticed all the cops and riot squads in the area on Saturday afternoon. I wish I had a camera phone at the time to blog the action at the anti-war rally.

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PicturePhoning.com reports via Moco News that O2 is launching an MMS chat service. One of the concerns cited is the lack of bandwidth on carrier networks. I've heard conflicting reports regarding this - working in the telecom industry, I hear from insiders that there is no dearth of bandwidth, but maybe a lack of investment in infrastructure (such as MMSc's) by carriers. The wireless bandwidth

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Howard Rheingold's article in The Feature - 'Mobile Social Presence: Who Knows Who's Where Now?' is an interesting read. The comments are also ueful to understand what people perceive as uses and drawbacks of mobile social networking. All I hear as real use cases for mobile presence are dataing apps - aren't there any other compelling reasons for it? I find the concept rather cool, but the

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Finally, Christian discusses more about Nokia's LifeBlog tool in this blog. Excerpts: * Nokia Lifeblog is not a blogging tool, it is a logging tool or as we prefer to call it a multimedia diary. * Initially the Nokia Lifeblog will not be available for the Nokia 6620, but some other terminal. * Nokia will show Lifeblog at the Cebit fair in Hannover starting in the middle of next week * Why a

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According to this article from CNET News.com, RSS and ATOM feeds for blogs are set to merge to a unified standard under the auspices of te IETF.

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More news on the Nokia LifeBlog application that Christian Lindholm had announced during the OReilley Conference in Feb'04. BBC's article mentions: "The Lifeblog software automatically arranges all the messages, images, videos and sound clips people capture with their phones." The LifeBlog tool is expected to be released in June'04.

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Yahoo! News - The Canadian Press and Atlas Telecom team up on news via cellphones: Whats the big deal in this ?!? Hasn't Yahoo Mobile provided such services ? And are people actually willing to pay 10 cents each to receive a news headline ? I am interested in seeing how this takes off.

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Vodafone seems to have launched a moblogging service at: Vodablog.com ! Currently its free and according to the site: "Vodablog is a demonstration service for Vodafone-Microsoft Mobile Web Services Contest. You can send SMS to 2385 and your post will appear on your blog.You can also get notified by SMS when your favorite blogs are updated." Seems like they are just trying it out. From the

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Check out the latest in the series of MTV inspired phones from MOTOROLA - SONICMOTO. These phones look hip - as in 'hip-hop'.

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Microsoft Research's Social Computing Group Home page has two screen shots from their ellusive Wallop project. Their description: In Wallop, you can share photos, blog, and interact with your friends. Wallop is a research project that explores how people share media and build conversations in the context of social networks. We are currently conducting a small, real world trial of Wallop with

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From picturephoning.com, CNN will Be Streamed Live on Mobiles in Austria. Check out the demo here. I'm interested in seeing how this picks off.....

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Reiter links to a blogger working for RocketMobile who mentions that Reiter'sCellular operator(s) have asked them to remove the ability to save photos to handset's memory cards. Rocket Mobile develops apps for BREW based phones. Reiter points to the few carriers who do provide BREW on their phones - at least is narrows down the guessing game.

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From , picturephoning.com, Orange announced its intentions To Launch 3G Video Blogs. There aren't too much details out there, but I hope to keep track of this.

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Everything TypePad! announced integrated moblog support at DEMO2004. The pics on the demo moblog they have look like old family pics - I can't wait for those megapixel cameras with flash built in to hit the market !

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Smart Mobs links to a set of surveys on user responses in the US and Japane with respect to mobile infotainment. Very interesting that one day after the release of a study indicating US users don’t want infotainment content on mobile phones another similar survey, this time with Japanese users, brings a total opposite result: In response to a question regarding "functions desirable for

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Wavemarket announces their location based blogging platform: WaveIQ consists of three software products, all now available: • WaveSpotter—a cellular map interface that allows users move about, letting users drill down to street level and post or consume blogs. • WaveBlog—a company-hosted super blog serving as a multiple channel informational clearinghouse engineered by uber blogger Russell

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Jeff Nolan blogs from Demo conference. The official Demo blog is accessible here. Things that caught my attention are: Waveblog: - location-based blogging. Pretty fringe technology that is intellectually appealing, but IMO far too cumbersome to use to be mainstream. I just don't think people are wired to work in this fashion. and XKey

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Joi Ito has a screenshot of the Moblogging client on the Nokia 6600 with Atom API support. It lets you post photos to any Atom API compliant photo album directly from the phone without going through email. I guess Joi got the screenshot from Christian Lindlum's blog. Christian mentions that the solution was developed bu Futurice (see my earlier posting). According to Christian: "I met the guys

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Howard Rheingold has some notes from Nokia's CTO's talk at the O'Reilley Emerging Technologies Conference. Nokia seems to have a vision of using the mobile device as a bridge between the physical world and the virtual world. More notes from Joho the Blog More notes from MobileWhack Also see Ross Mayfield's Wiki on notes from the conference Points of note: "Modish", an application in

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Futurice seems to have a relationship with Nokia - I am not sure what the relationship is besides Nokia mentioning them in the Nokia Forum. Futurice's solutions include Image-Galleries and PhotoBlogs. Futurice also mentions a cooperative effort between them an UC Berkley's SIMS. Link

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Undercover [via SmartMobs] is a game from YDreams and Hong Kong mobile telecom operator, Sunday, that uses the user's location as tool to walk them through the real world to 'identify and destroy' threats to global peace. An interesting game. I love the UIs in the Java version - the game seems immersive enough to keep one's mind of the fact that they are spending 10cents each for each action they

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Motility now has an ATOM feed: http://motility.blogspot.com/atom.xml This is a blogger.com feature and so it works a lot better than the RSS feed I have courtesy blogstreet.com. At least the blogstreet feed worked a lot better than the feed I tried setting up via feedster.

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Nokia's - Xpress-on GPS Shell allows Nokia phones to be GPS enabled. I haven't been able to identify how the device fits on, but knowing how Nokia phones can be pulled apart and 'new shells' placed on them, I guess the GPS shell works the same way. The flash demo on the Nokia site shows a description of how the GPS feature could be used. I am not sure if the apps shown in the demo are standard -

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SmartMobs has a pointer to mobs video - a service aimed to deliver "free mobile video sent to your phone". Although the article pointed to from SmartMobs mentions that they would like to make it a pay-per download medium.

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BBC reports that Nokia released a Visual Radio service that allows users of Nokia phones (currently the 7700) to receive FM radio stations as well as get info on the contents of the stations - such as images of the band currently playing on the airwaves. This might be Nokia's shot at SPOT technology and might be a move into the niche that Microsoft has been trying to carve out for itself. I'm

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Kevin Lisots is organizing aWindows Mobile blog client contest for the Micorosft Mobile Developer Conference. Any takers ? Kevin's site also has a list of blog clients for windows mobile on the left pane.

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Nokia - Xpress-on GPS Shell - check this out

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Upoc - check up on this

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VOANews.com [via Picturephoning.com]has a good article on Camera phones and privacy issues arising from them.

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World-Wide Media eXchange: WWMX's site starts off with this quote: "What can you do with a gazillion photos on a single database indexed by their location? Browse photos by location. Add your own photos to the database. See who else has been where you've been" I tried accessing the demo on the site, but thanks to the SlashDot effect, the server seems to have been overloaded. More on this

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Japan Media Review's -- Keitai Log is an interesting resource by Japanese college students on the mobile Internet.

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Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist studying media technology use, particularly how digital media are changing relationships, identities, and communities. Her research groups at the Docomo House at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus seems to have some useful material - but its all in Japanese !!! :-( Incidentally, I've read somewhere that Mizuko is Japanese enterpreneur, Joi Ito's sister

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SENT is a new exhibition claimed to be the first cameraphone art show in the United States. It 'aims to explore the creative potential of the limited camera hardware available on modern mobile phones and to capture the beauty of the mundane, while questioning the boundaries of modern photography' [link] SENT will be one of the first curated shows to include not just artists, but digerati, and

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Buzznet - Photologs and MoBlogs seems to be another photoblogging hosting service. One thing I notice differnent here is the idea of 'communities' or broad themes under which people can make postings. I wonder how many people have signed up fo rhtis service. The SFGate.com has an article about them here.

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Zidango provides a service that allows US subscribers to send MMS between carriers.

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Smart Mobs reports on a location based flirting service from Brazil. The LocatioNet platform also fleet management, POI/Event identification, mapping and m-commerce (based on location info)

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Smart Mobs reports of the coverage of the SC Democratic party primary via a photomoblog by Cingular and TextAmertica.

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Network Edge reports on Tacit's ActiveNet. It attempts to understand who knows what by constantly monitoring email, reports, and other documents - a step above social networking tools out there. At Northrop Grunman, ActiveNet combs through thousands of employee profiles and millions of internal documents -- from emails to PowerPoint slides -- and suggests synergistic matchups between workers,

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Network Edge's Blog reports that Kinja is a new online servicea new online service set to launch in the first quarter addresses the problem of the difficulty of finding information in blogs relevant to business people. Kinja incorporates a recommendation engine that works somewhat like Amazon's. When you find a blog you like, Kinja recommends other, similar blogs. Over time, a Kinja-like approach

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Allan Reiter reports that textamerica will provide moblog hosting platform to San Diego Union-Tribune.

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I just came across this site: WINKsite: Moblogging, Mobile Communities, Mobile Site Builder. A preliminary reading has caught my attention. I noticed that Howard Reighngold has joined their Advisory Board - even more interesting.... I'll blog on this real soon.

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From Reiter's Camera Phone Report: Cingular making it difficult for Motorola V400 users to use photos, e-mail?. I don't understand why Cingular is doing this. Aren't they interested in revenues from MMS ? I like the comment Reiter posted: "Sprint has made it a corporate policy to offer the latest and greatest handsets. Verizon typically lags behind some other carriers in offering the latest

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I've set up an internal blog within Motorola Labs - my next move is to try to get more people within the organization to start using it. With all the reading people do within my group, I can see it becoming an invaluable repository of information related to our areas of research - All this under the assumption that people actually adopt it. I hope the idea that feeds from the blogs can actually

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The OGC Members finally adopted an implementation specification for Location Based Services. At least now, hopefully, due to greater interoperability, LBS services can finally take off !

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Another set of RSS readers: FeedDemon (For Windows) Aggreg8 NewsGator FeedReader PocketFeed SharpReader NetNewsWire (MAC) RSSOwl (Linux et al)

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Hey we can't be far behind.... Check out Chicago Bloggers

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I just stumbled across this - Educational Bloggers' Network. Seems interesting. I need to check this out.

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Russell Beattie summarizes content from the Nokia Investor's meet: The most interesting thing I heard was about Nokia's enthusiasm for moblogs! Both during the presentation and in response to a question from an analyst about mobiles in the imaging market, Vanjoki stressed that the ability to post photos online and annotate those pictures ("your life" I think he said) as an important

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Hey boys and girls ! Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator. This is a module (currently in beta) for 'My Yahoo', Yahoo's personalized frontpage. They've always had a wide variety of content, but I like this new feature that allows you to add more RSS feeds on your own. Another link with some additional tips on this service.

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Yet another moblog solution - update blogs using sms. This one's real simple.... boring.....

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Day#2: Bill French's (MyST) talk on Content Syndication in the Enterprise. MyST is developing some interesting tools for enhancing research ability in the Microsoft Office Suite. More details on this later. Looking at the Winterfest Wiki, some interesting links: Great RSS Tools I've stopped taking notes of the talks once I got to Roland's Best of Day2. I wish I had him take notes in all

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Dave Winer's presentation RSS feed RSS Weather feeds PubSub Rest of the transcripts are available here Some more are available here Shucks ! I had meetings all day long and couldn't attend most of the sessions :-( Hopefully I can attend day 2.

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South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has mandated that camera phones in Korea need to make an audible sound (around 65 decibels or loudness of a normal conversation) before they click a picture. This is to prevent illicit pictures taken of people. See: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,20280927,00.htm

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CyberJournalist.net: Blogging the primary with a camera phone The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, is sending a reporter all the way across the country (literally!) to New Hampshire for a week to cover the primary, equipped with a Treo 600 camera phone

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RSSWinterfest Webcast: January 21 & 22, 2004 - don't forget to log in then !

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Audio/Mobile Blogging News talk about a photograph syndication service from Pheed.com. It seems like a service where photographers who want to syndicate/sell their photos can register with so that thier pics can be syndicated.

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West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada has an interesting application for locating stores within their mega-mall - interestingly enough they have the application ported for Palms/PocketPCs and Cell Phones. Check out the demo for J2ME phones here

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This New Scientist article talks about Nokia's Digital Pen and Sony Ericsson's Chatpen that allow you to email or MMS text written/drawn out by it - or in other words they can also allow you to moblog with your own handwriting.

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dodgeball is an interesting service for mobile phone users that allows you to: 1. Use your mobile phone to look up addresses and cross-streets or find the closest pool table or Ms. Pac Man machine 2. Use your mobile phone to tell us where you are and we'll broadcast your whereabouts to all your friends. 3. Use your mobile phone to broadcast messages to people within 10 blocks of your current

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I didn't realize till today that Indian (online) media giant Rediff had a blog hosting service. Nice to see this catching on....

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ScienceDaily News Release: Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) are leading a government-industry team to develop a blog as a promising new approach to speeding up the exchange of information on new defense technologies--and thereby speed up getting the technologies into the field.

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mobileRSS!, currently in beta, is "a web based client for reading and managing RSS feeds" - or in a other words a simplified web based aggregator that ensures the content that the client sees is adapted for mobile devices. Check out the demo at: http://www.mobilerss.com/(g3ntou55p42py055vqytwomp)/Members/?demo=1 This would be no different than bloglines.com - except that this is only an

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EXIF.org - EXIF and related resources "The EXIF 2.1 standard contains a GPS IFD allowing the position at which an image was taken to be detailed amongst the usual EXIF data. Information about image location could provide a very useful form of annotation, both for the primary user wishing to search within their own image collection, and for when distributing such images amongst secondary users

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JavaHMO is a media server for the Home Media Option from TiVo adds new innovative features beyond the existing functionality provided by TiVo's implementation

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drewnoakes.com - jpeg exif / iptc metadata extraction in java An excellent source for ExIf buffs. I'm also very impressed by JAlbum, a freeware tool that uses it.

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TagandScan is another 'Virtual Graffiti' solution. This seems quite simple to use and also 'simple' feature-wise. Maybe its a good idea to be very vertical - maybe not? They have an online demo of their J2ME client which is accessible here

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TheFeature :: From Weblog to Moblog: An interesting read on concepts based on moblogging. "Recent visitors to Yeouido Park in Seoul might have seen hundreds of policemen armed with long thick sticks, lining up around the perimeter of the grass and the basketball court. All of a sudden, a peaceful broad public park was ringed with armed forces in dark blue suits, guarding against something

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:: Snap-n-Print - Powered by ClearSky Mobile Media :: A service that allows compatible camera phone users to create and send personalized photo images as postcards through the U.S. Mail—all from the phone itself.

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