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September 20, 2003
Cheesebikini Cam
I finally joined the 21st Century and set up a live photoblog: http://www.cheesebikini.com/cam. Technically my phonecam belongs to its manufacturer, Nokia. But it's mine for the semester. (Definitions: A phonecam is a mobile phone with a camera built in. A live photoblog, also called a "moblog," is a site where snapshots from a phonecam appear live as they're taken in the field; the photographer can update the site using nothing but a phonecam.) The phonecam I'm babysitting is a Nokia 3650; it can capture still photos, audio and short video segments, and it can send this content to any e-mail address. With a little messing around, you can use this to build a photoblog. I'm working on a project for Nokia at Berkeley; we're developing applications for these phonecams and creating metadata frameworks that we hope will make it easier for regular people to create, annotate, retrieve, share and work with photos and video. Here are details of the project. Comments
this has nothing to do with the article. Check out the Carlazone at Carlazone.com. I've hooked her up with a mobile webcam for a few years now, but last Christmas it took the ultimate convergence and turned into a phonecam picture blog using Sprint PCS Vision. A lot better than carrying a small laptop around in a bag... Posted by: Thomas on October 7, 2003 02:51 PMWOW! That phone takes fantastic photos. I'm from SF myself (Mission) but living in Kobe, Japan. I just got a picture phone here, but the Nokia you have is great. How much does it cost to send a picture? Mine cost about 30 cents per 12K picture to send by email. I have a panasonic Docomo P504is. Good luck with the study. If I can help, let me know. Posted by: Mike on October 8, 2003 12:26 AMGo to the following locations (the mob you plan to attend) to pick up your mob instructions. Be there at or before the time indicated, volunteers will leave their locations by 1:45PM to attend the mob: Irvine Hollywood Santa Monica Volunteers will have the letters "GFM" pasted somewhere on their bodies, so look for that. Don't forget to include lattitude/longitude meta-data in phones that support it! (eg/ GPS, E911 functionality) so we can put your photos on the map! Posted by: dave on October 29, 2003 08:59 AMI'm all about the location-aware stuff! But my phone doesn't support latitude and longitude tagging. It -does- support cel-number tagging, but I haven't had time to dig into that... (And it's not very precise anyway). Posted by: sean on October 29, 2003 10:13 AMHow much is a GOOD Phone going for? Posted by: articus on October 30, 2003 02:28 PMThat's the only thing I can see a phone cam being good for. Sweet! Posted by: driverdave on November 2, 2003 12:27 AMPost a comment
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