Reiter's Camera Phone Report

Schmap publishes another of my BlackBerry photos for its online guide

I just received an e-mail from the online tourist guide Web site, Schmap, that a second camera phone photo of mine was selected for its Schmap Guide to California (see below).

It’s a photo I took with a Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Pearl 8120 of a heart-shaped sculpture on Union Street in San Francisco (see below).  I took the photo when I was in the city last fall to attend the CTIA’s Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2007 conference.

The Union Street area, with its numerous shops and restaurants, is a favorite place for wandering when I’m in San Francisco, my favorite city in the United States.  The Schmap Guide identified the sculpture as part of the Union Street Art Festival. 

Second photo of mine in Schmap

I didn’t know the festival was going on — or had occurred.  I just liked the sculpture and, as is my wont, shot numerous images.  I post some of my best camera phone images on my Flickr camera phone album, which is where Schmap found it.

This is the second time Schmap picked a photo I took with a BlackBerry.  As I previously wrote, the first was a photo of a sculpture in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Va.

I used a BlackBerry Curve 8300 for that Torpedo Factory photo.  I have since upgraded to a Curve 8320, courtesy of RIM, which provides me with handsets to test.

For both photos, I didn’t submit them to Schmap.  Schmap saw them on Flickr, e-mailed me that the image was under consideration for being included in the guide and asked if I would give my permission to use the photos if they were selected.  Obviously, I gave my permission.

Heading to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Saturday

I'm heading to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona (see below) on Saturday, arriving on Sunday.

I've been to Spain several times and to Barcelona twice, but never for the MWC.  In 2006 some 50,000 people attended the show, that used to be in held in Cannes.

I'm going as a guest of Nokia, through its "blogger relations program," and expect to receive a couple of great new toys -- that I certainly intend to put to good use during the conference.  I'm especially interested in attending panel discussions and exhibits about multimedia products and services, such as, duh, camera phones for photos and videos as well as live streaming and mobile television.

Assuming I can get some good wireless data connections (hopefully free or Boingo-affiliated WiFi hotspots) I'm going to try some live streaming cellular videos.  Stay tuned next week.

Posting my favorite camera phone photos on Flickr

I recently established a Flickr account to post my favorite camera phone photos that I've taken (see above).  Also, I have posted a Flickr Flash-based "badge" (see left) of these photos that you may see in the left column of this weblog under "Camera Phone Photos."  I've been avoiding adding graphic elements that slow down loading pages but since so many people now have broadband connections I thought it wouldn't adversely affect too many readers.

I started posting camera phone photos online years ago (such as for the Treo 600; see below) starting with using textamerica, a pioneering moblog company.  I liked textamerica, especially because they allowed photos and videos; most photo sharing services allow only photo -- not video -- storage.  Years ago I also did a little bit of business development and marketing consulting for textamerica.

Unfortunately, textamerica didn't capitalize on its pioneering role and has, unfortunately, fallen by the wayside as hundreds of new photo and video sharing sites have been established.  It really is a shame.

Other moblogs

Most recently I started establishing photo albums with TypePad, that hosts my personal weblogs.  TypePads photos albums aren't bad and features are added every so often.  But they aren't the best of the best from a feature standpoint.

Now I'm doing a bit more with Flickr.  I met -- very briefly -- Flickr's founders a few years ago during a camera phone conference held in Hawaii.  I must admit that, at the time, I didn't realize the explosive potential of Flickr.  Shame on me.

All my camera phone moblogs -- about 20 -- are listed as "My Test Moblogs" (see left) down the left column of this weblog.

Lack of posts, but stay tuned!

I haven't been posting to this weblog as much as I'd like because of some consulting work as well as working on a quasi-stealth new camera phone weblog by a wireless company.

Stay tuned, today, though, for more camera phone posts, as well as the new camera phone weblog.

Reiter's Camera Phone Report milestone: 1,000 posts

This weblog just reached a milestone of sorts.  The previous post about PhotoDUNK was my one thousandth entry. 

Also, there are more than 700 comments.

Gap in "Camera Phone Report" coverage, but I'm back now!

Just a brief note to say that for a few months I was posting very infrequently on this weblog.  Sorry about that.  But I’m back now.

I was busy with my wireless data consulting business and also with two new weblogs, including the one I write for the CTIA’s Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC) and a new one I started on wireless podcasting.  If you need to know about the most important issues of the wireless data industry, you should take a look at the “WIC Weblog.”

The wireless podcasting weblog, “Reiter’s Wireless Podcast Report,” is a fun one to write, but I don’t know whether I’ll continue it.  It depends on whether enough people care to read it.

I get paid to write the WIC Weblog, so I’ll continue with that as long as I’m paid!

Camera phone articles to come, stay tuned

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past week.  I was just swamped preparing for the CTIA Wireless 2005 conference.  I conducted an all-morning camera phone tutorial, moderated three camera phone panels and launched both a weblog and a monthly wireless data electronic newsletter for the CTIA's Wireless Internet Caucus.

Wireless 2005 was an exciting show, especially for camera phones.  Stay tuned.  Camera phone articles will be coming.

Help: Anyone know about inserting ads using TypePad advanced templates?

Help!  I need to insert a horizontal banner advertisement in "Camera Phone Report" to be displayed on all my pages and I don't know how to do it.

I want to insert the ad -- a plain .gif file (and link it to a Web site) -- in between my headline and subhead ("Reiter's Camera Phone Report"/THE source for information about camera phones and all wireless digital photography) and the start of the actual Weblog.

The ad -- 468 x 60 -- would be centered, above the most recent entry and right below the black box where the headline and subheads are, as I've indicated with the arrow (see below).

I believe I need to use TypePad's Advanced Templates for this but I don't know which of the templates to use, where to place code in the template and the actual code to insert.

Any help from TypePad users would be greatly appreciated.  E-mail me:  reiter@wirelessinternet.com

Welcome DxO Labs as advertiser on "Camera Phone Report"

I'd just like to welcome DxO Labs as "Camera Phone Report's" first paid advertiser.  I've been running Google Ads for a while, but DxO is the first company that has been accepted as a paid advertising client.

DxO, based in Boulogne, France, provides software to improve the quality of camera phone images.

"Camera Phone Report" accepts a very limited number of paid advertisements.  By the way, as of today we are still No. 1 on Google for "camera phone."

Indian porn film generates lots of hits, comments

I'm getting more hits and comments about the item I posted about two Indian students who made a sex film with a camera phone than just about anything I've posted here.

For the record, I don't have the URL of the film that is, reportedly, circulating around the Internet and I wouldn't post the URL even if I did have it.