Media Post Publications reports on future camera phone applications

Media Post Publications has posted an interesting article about research and beta applications for camera phones.

Two of the most interesting are iheartart (http://iheartart.com) and ZoneTag (http://research.yahoo.com/zonetag).

Susan Kuchinskas writes about ihearart that's "a community site that brings together people, camera phones, and the Internet.  The idea is to let people immediately share reactions to art, whether in a museum or on the street....

"The Web site acts as the focal point, hosting photos taken with camera phones, sent by participants directly from their phones.  The Web server recognizes the phone number, so that when a user next visits the site and logs in, the photos are available in a personal gallery.

"Users can add tags or additional comments and send the photos to friends."

ZoneTag's suggestions

ZoneTag suggests words for tagging camera phone images based on the location of the cellular tower where the photo was taken.  The application was developed by Yahoo Research Labs-Berkeley.

In addition to suggesting "tag" words, ZoneTag enables users to upload the images to Flickr.

It's still a research project, but here are two ways ZoneTag could be used:  "A traveler could take a photo of an interesting building and send it to ZoneTag in order to find out its name and the architect, or it could be tied into Yahoo's local search so that someone could find nearby restaurants or upcoming events at the location."

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