David Pitkin

ZoneTag was the first mobile phone upload tool I used to send pictures to flickr, created at the Yahoo! Research Berkley lab. On the Nokia 6682 it was great, even without a GPS it would upload the cell tower information and they started to build a database so you could put it on a map. This was before flickr had geotagging. The other thing they did was suggest tags based on your location, so when I took a picture at Fenway it could suggest that tag on flickr, this was in 2006.

Fast forward and ZoneTag lacked in support for my newer phones and so I turned to Shozu for a while, the thing I missed the most was when I went to upload I could not tag or set the privacy of the photo being uploaded. This was a major disadvantage for me but I lived with it, I actually uploaded all my pictures as private and then selectively turned them public, but often forgot and never went back to tag.

Now with the new N95 and new version of ZoneTag prototype there is a ton of stuff, including the ability to tag a photo with a verb/Acton Tag like !scanr:wb will tell ZoneTag that I am uploading a picture of a whiteboard to send to scanR and have it perform OCR on that picture. Fantastic.

Now if only ZoneTag used the GPS coordinates as well as Cell Tower info…

I wanted to share the list of applications and setting I have done so far for my brand new N95 today.

Installed: WorldMate for weather Nokia Maps Nokia Map Loader downloaded NH, MA and CA to my 2GB card Shozu Conversation Handy Taskman Sport Tracker Google Mail Mobile Google Maps Setup GooSync to get my calendar, the database name is “Calendar” and use the other generic settings. Synced with iSync to the Mac address book

This device is fantastic.

Thanks to the host (Orange Labs) and organizers of Mobile Monday Boston for the chance to attend a mobile social networking panel last night. I wanted to just write a few of my notes.

• Mobile Phones are great social networking tools for a variety of reasons such as they are always with you, are key content creators (camera, microphone, keypad), have access to your location and make it easy to get your attention
• Nobody mentioned 3G at all, everyone mentioned facebook ( I just created a momo boston facebook group )
• Paying for your shortcode is expensive
• The four wireless carriers in the US continue to control distribution

Event details here

Thanks to the host (Orange Labs) and organizers of Mobile Monday Boston for the chance to attend a mobile social networking panel last night. I wanted to just write a few of my notes.

• Mobile Phones are great social networking tools for a variety of reasons such as they are always with you, are key content creators (camera, microphone, keypad), have access to your location and make it easy to get your attention
• Nobody mentioned 3G at all, everyone mentioned facebook ( I just created a momo boston facebook group )
• Paying for your shortcode is expensive
• The four wireless carriers in the US continue to control distribution

Event details here

Anyone else having trouble with their iGoogle homepage? Mine shows me another users content entirely. My homepage is very different than what you see here.

It is nice to see that even a Google application can be busted pretty badly. Gmail did not let me into their mailbox and correctly displayed mine. Is iGoogle beta?

I got a Nokia CA-100 charger from Expansys via MobilePlanet today. It was kind of expensive at 41 US dollars, converted from the 18 GBP. Look at all the devices it can charge for me from any USB port I can get my hands on. This will be a most welcome addition to my laptop bag.

Who knew there was a Google Earth Store where they sold cool stuff like the Trackstick II. With it you can upload your track like I have been doing with the Nokia Sport Tracker to Google Earth via a kml file. It can also provide you with the GPX file you need to link with your camera photos to your location and automatically save the location in the photo itself. The Google Earth/Keyhole team continues to impress me.

Update: The Trackstick II requires Windows to export your files. That is kind of lame given the outputs are all open formats.

Who knew there was a Google Earth Store where they sold cool stuff like the Trackstick II. With it you can upload your track like I have been doing with the Nokia Sport Tracker to Google Earth via a kml file. It can also provide you with the GPX file you need to link with your camera photos to your location and automatically save the location in the photo itself. The Google Earth/Keyhole team continues to impress me.

Update: The Trackstick II requires Windows to export your files. That is kind of lame given the outputs are all open formats.

Who knew there was a Google Earth Store where they sold cool stuff like the Trackstick II. With it you can upload your track like I have been doing with the Nokia Sport Tracker to Google Earth via a kml file. It can also provide you with the GPX file you need to link with your camera photos to your location and automatically save the location in the photo itself. The Google Earth/Keyhole team continues to impress me.

Update: The Trackstick II requires Windows to export your files. That is kind of lame given the outputs are all open formats.

Who knew there was a Google Earth Store where they sold cool stuff like the Trackstick II. With it you can upload your track like I have been doing with the Nokia Sport Tracker to Google Earth via a kml file. It can also provide you with the GPX file you need to link with your camera photos to your location and automatically save the location in the photo itself. The Google Earth/Keyhole team continues to impress me.

Update: The Trackstick II requires Windows to export your files. That is kind of lame given the outputs are all open formats.