More on last nights Pixie Hunt from Where 2.0
Tuesday, 13. June 2006, 18:06:22
More on last nights Pixie hunt... sorry for the delay but I was a bit burnt out after a long day last night and didn't really comment too much on the Oixie hunt scavenger hunt. The event was the first official test of a cool location-enabled mobile application developed at Microsoft. Carved up into about 8 groups, we all set out on a mission to geo-locate and capture images of some weird things.. including a tatoo from a stranger, a nose piercinng, eating sushi, doing a shot with a stranger, yadayada. The application we used conveniently listed our tasks numerically and as we got to a location we would select the task, click the "take a photo" option, capture our image and upload to the flickr blog where it was available for all other teams to see and even add some "smack" on. Unfortunately we got started a bit late and lost our sunlight... unfortuantely the camera phones didn't have a flash and the resultinng pictures where a little dark... no biggeee I guess but something to try and avoind next time. We really didn't use the GPS functionality too much, although the teams that did likely scored the best results. I have no doubt that the Pixie Hunt applisation could be received very favorable by carriers and would be a nice third party app to include on a deck. You can see all the photos for yourself at http://www.flickr.com/groups/pixie-where --- oh, one last hting, if you want more news from Where 2.0 see http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/where_20
