Photo blogs go mobile
Friday, 28. October 2005, 18:03:01
A single click will publish your pics
Victor Keegan
Thursday October 27, 2005
The Guardian
New applications are coming on stream which take photoblogging on to a higher plain. Take the recently launched Shozu.com: at the moment it only works on some Symbian phones (a range of Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson handsets), but there are plans to extend it. Once you have downloaded the software to your phone from Shozu's website and signed up for an account at Flickr.com - now owned by Yahoo - you are ready to go.
Now simply take a photo with your cameraphone in the normal way and when you start to send it an option springs up saying "Save to Flickr". When you click this it automatically goes by wireless transmission to your Flickr photo account, where it can be viewed on a computer screen anywhere in the world by other users. You can also write words to accompany the photo by choosing the "Open Shozu" option.
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Opera, the Norwegian company that runs an admirable bespoke browser for mobile phones, has just launched its own impressive blogging site to which you can also send photos by phone - though it needs a few more more clicks than Shozu's because you have to access an email address through your contacts list rather than this being done automatically. Flickr supports this option, too, and another application in this area to watch for is fotolibra.com, based in Cardiff. Fotolibra claims to be the "the world's first fully online, open-access picture library". The idea came to the originator when a water-burst in the attic destroyed family albums full of treasured photos. The thought then occurred that if they had only been digitised, a publisher or someone else might have been interested in buying them.
Victor Keegan
Thursday October 27, 2005
The Guardian
New applications are coming on stream which take photoblogging on to a higher plain. Take the recently launched Shozu.com: at the moment it only works on some Symbian phones (a range of Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson handsets), but there are plans to extend it. Once you have downloaded the software to your phone from Shozu's website and signed up for an account at Flickr.com - now owned by Yahoo - you are ready to go.
Now simply take a photo with your cameraphone in the normal way and when you start to send it an option springs up saying "Save to Flickr". When you click this it automatically goes by wireless transmission to your Flickr photo account, where it can be viewed on a computer screen anywhere in the world by other users. You can also write words to accompany the photo by choosing the "Open Shozu" option.
[snip]
Opera, the Norwegian company that runs an admirable bespoke browser for mobile phones, has just launched its own impressive blogging site to which you can also send photos by phone - though it needs a few more more clicks than Shozu's because you have to access an email address through your contacts list rather than this being done automatically. Flickr supports this option, too, and another application in this area to watch for is fotolibra.com, based in Cardiff. Fotolibra claims to be the "the world's first fully online, open-access picture library". The idea came to the originator when a water-burst in the attic destroyed family albums full of treasured photos. The thought then occurred that if they had only been digitised, a publisher or someone else might have been interested in buying them.
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