Mobile Monday – September 2005
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Stopped by the Mobile Monday meeting at Yahoo this evening. This evening’s session looked like fun, as the theme was “Mobile Photos”, combining a couple of my current interests. Quick notes:
Some the general trends targeted by mobile photo services:
- Mainstream arrival of digital photography
- Impending arrival of megapixel+ phone cameras
- Increasing availability of network connectivity
- Rise of social software applications
- Changes in online attitudes and habits of society – it’s not considered weird to meet people online
- Change from photos mostly documenting events to photos of incidental, serendipitous memories
The slate of speakers / demos:
Erik Weitzman, Shutterfly (http://www.shutterfly.com)
Heather Champ, Flickr (http://www.flickr.com)
Rich Gossweiller, HP Labs/Plog (http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/Plog/PLOGPage.htm )
Chris Dury, ScanR (http://www.scanr.com)
Mike Prynce, Mobido (http://www.mobido.com)
Flickr guy (standing in for Heather) commented that at present around 30% of their uploads are from mobile phone cameras, versus near zero when they started. Shutterfly guy brought a set of sample prints from phone cameras of various resolutions, showing that more megapixels are definitely better, although the phonecams suffer from no flash or bad flash, and mostly terrible lenses. The Sony phonecams shown in the ScanR demo had visibly better quality than the Treo sample images.
