I wish I had a Social Camera…

June 14, 2007 By

Dave Winer has a great idea today: social cameras. My camera has Bluetooth. Wifi. And is a cell phone. So, why is it so stupid in terms of knowing who else is nearby? I’d love to interchange photos with other people. Imagine if iPhones could do this? Too bad that iPhones only have HTML and JavaScript cause it’s really hard to make an app that does this (not to mention an iPhone doesn’t have GPS built in like my Nokia N95 does so you can’t use that to figure out who else was taking pictures near you).

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  • http://podslug.com/ Erik Herz

    What if Twitter could handle photos? … The Sprint PictureMail service lets you upload pics and flix from your phone and send these to other phones … how about this?

    If anyone wants to start a business that is Twitter for mobile photos (upload from mobile and share to mobile) just let me know. I can help make it happen.

    Erik

  • http://podslug.com Erik Herz

    What if Twitter could handle photos? … The Sprint PictureMail service lets you upload pics and flix from your phone and send these to other phones … how about this?

    If anyone wants to start a business that is Twitter for mobile photos (upload from mobile and share to mobile) just let me know. I can help make it happen.

    Erik

  • http://colinizer.com/ colin

    I believe the problem is that your phone’s battery would die very quickly if it was always in bluetooth discovery mode or an equivalent “anyone out there, I’m here” protocol over wifi.

    There are other ways to do this, but the phones would need GPS or a similar system ;)

  • http://colinizer.com colin

    I believe the problem is that your phone’s battery would die very quickly if it was always in bluetooth discovery mode or an equivalent “anyone out there, I’m here” protocol over wifi.

    There are other ways to do this, but the phones would need GPS or a similar system ;)

  • http://colinizer.com/ colin

    Erik, may come back to you on that or something similar.

  • http://colinizer.com colin

    Erik, may come back to you on that or something similar.

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  • John Starta

    Why does everybody make such a big deal about the iPhone not having a GPS receiver?

    Fact is the FCC mandates all cell phone handsets be capable of providing their location to within 50 to 100 meters. This functionality is required by law for purposes of E911 service (i.e. the 911 dispatcher will know your location).

    Whether location is provided via a built-in GPS receiver or via carrier derived techniques is insignificant. It’s up to the handset manufacturer as to whether they permit applications access to this information. The iPhone clearly knows where it’s at and therefore can provide map/location specific information as demonstrated in the “Seafood” iPhone commercial.

  • John Starta

    Why does everybody make such a big deal about the iPhone not having a GPS receiver?

    Fact is the FCC mandates all cell phone handsets be capable of providing their location to within 50 to 100 meters. This functionality is required by law for purposes of E911 service (i.e. the 911 dispatcher will know your location).

    Whether location is provided via a built-in GPS receiver or via carrier derived techniques is insignificant. It’s up to the handset manufacturer as to whether they permit applications access to this information. The iPhone clearly knows where it’s at and therefore can provide map/location specific information as demonstrated in the “Seafood” iPhone commercial.

  • Meshed Networks

    This is/would be a very good application of meshed networks. But people still have to figure out how to efficiently/fairly share bandwidth, power and other resources in these wireless networks. And there is also the big issue of security and so forth. SocCams are definitely a great idea, but a bit premature I would say for now.

  • Meshed Networks

    This is/would be a very good application of meshed networks. But people still have to figure out how to efficiently/fairly share bandwidth, power and other resources in these wireless networks. And there is also the big issue of security and so forth. SocCams are definitely a great idea, but a bit premature I would say for now.

  • http://www.novelinteractions.com/ Chris Davies

    Hi,

    My company, Novel Interactions Ltd. just released a Zeroconf (Bonjour) framework for Symbian OS yesterday, and this is one of the products we’re working on that builds on it.

    So, if you keep your N95, would you like to be a beta tester when we have something useful to release?

  • http://www.novelinteractions.com/ Chris Davies

    Hi,

    My company, Novel Interactions Ltd. just released a Zeroconf (Bonjour) framework for Symbian OS yesterday, and this is one of the products we’re working on that builds on it.

    So, if you keep your N95, would you like to be a beta tester when we have something useful to release?

  • http://goodold.se/ Olof

    Hi.
    It’s possible, it just doesn’t have a nice mashed up interface. Combining uses of Socialight(and maybe Plazes), to place your images and see what other images are near by, and Shozu to put them on Flickr this could be done.

    Kind regards Olof

  • http://goodold.se Olof

    Hi.
    It’s possible, it just doesn’t have a nice mashed up interface. Combining uses of Socialight(and maybe Plazes), to place your images and see what other images are near by, and Shozu to put them on Flickr this could be done.

    Kind regards Olof

  • http://www.slashgear.com/ Chris Davies

    Sometimes, when sat bored in airport lounges or railway stations, I like to bluetooth photos to random people nearby. Okay, so it’s not so organised as you might like, Robert, but at least I get to share my angletastic MySpace-esque shots with dreary businesspeople.

  • http://www.slashgear.com/ Chris Davies

    Sometimes, when sat bored in airport lounges or railway stations, I like to bluetooth photos to random people nearby. Okay, so it’s not so organised as you might like, Robert, but at least I get to share my angletastic MySpace-esque shots with dreary businesspeople.

  • http://web-strategist.com/ Jeremiah Owyang

    Yes, great idea. We could also triangulate photos and start to create 3D models of videos. I know MS started that project.

    You’ll need at least 2 GPS type devices in each camera to tell where the camera is aiming, then it will become easier.

  • http://web-strategist.com Jeremiah Owyang

    Yes, great idea. We could also triangulate photos and start to create 3D models of videos. I know MS started that project.

    You’ll need at least 2 GPS type devices in each camera to tell where the camera is aiming, then it will become easier.

  • http://colinizer.com/ colin

    John, the difference is significant from a commercial standpoint because using an onboard device means just API availability and compatibility (with a standard GPS api on WM5 for example) whereas carrer-provided location-based services means working with carrers which can be a use pain-in-the-cooling-fan and can increase costs.

  • http://colinizer.com colin

    John, the difference is significant from a commercial standpoint because using an onboard device means just API availability and compatibility (with a standard GPS api on WM5 for example) whereas carrer-provided location-based services means working with carrers which can be a use pain-in-the-cooling-fan and can increase costs.

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  • Phil Kast

    Reminds me of a useful version of the blind camera:
    http://www.blinksandbuttons.net/buttons_en.html

  • Phil Kast

    Reminds me of a useful version of the blind camera:
    http://www.blinksandbuttons.net/buttons_en.html

  • igor

    One old lady says:
    - I want to go to France again…”
    Another old lady questions:
    - When have you been there?
    And the first replies:
    - Never… But the last time I wanted to go was 1 year ago…

    Same with your social camera.

  • igor

    One old lady says:
    - I want to go to France again…”
    Another old lady questions:
    - When have you been there?
    And the first replies:
    - Never… But the last time I wanted to go was 1 year ago…

    Same with your social camera.