Camera-phone buying guide
Moblogging Most major mobile phone manufacturers are starting to affiliate their imaging features with the large social networking sites. Nokia is partnered with Flickr; BlackBerrys now have a Facebook application on board so you can moblog your photos immediately after taking them; the Telstra Hiptop Slide has a MySpace application; and Sony Ericsson offers its customers a personal page on the Sony Ericsson blog site that users can post videos to, as well as their photos. If you'd prefer not to have your phone manufacturer to determine which social networking site you use then an application like ShoZu is for you. ShoZu is what's been termed "middleware" and is a platform designed to convert and upload mobile phone content from your handset to most of the popular blog sites, including Livejournal. ShoZu also lets users download from blog sites to their phones. One interesting variation on the moblogging theme is a Web site called Scoopt, where members can upload photos taken with their camera-phones and share the profits of the photographs if they are published by the media. Obviously the pictures must be somewhat newsworthy; disasters, freak storms, topless celebrities; in fact, if celebrities thought they had enough problems with paparazzi before, now they'll have every Tom, Dick and Harry with a camera-phone in their faces. |
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