Mike Bukhin and Michael DelGaudio spoke at MUM2006 about WayMarkr. WayMarkr lets the user wear a cameraphone (must be a series 60 phone) that automatically takes pictures, adds the GPS location, and uploads them to the WayMarkr server. If the user sets the display to public, anyone can come in and look at a slideshow of the photos. On the second day of the conference, we took a bus tour from Stanford to San Francisco. Here’s the set of photos from that trip, showing where the bus was on the map as each picture was taken.
As a kid, I always thought it would be interesting to take a picture of the same spot in the backyard each day, to see the changes of the days and of the seasons, but never did follow through. The authors mention reviewing photo sets from their daily routine and being able to watch buildings being built, seasons changing, and a variety of things they hadn’t consciously noticed in the past — including their bad posture, and being hunched over a computer too much of the time. There are a variety of implications of this type of media, but I won’t dive into them now. I’m busy setting up WordPress on my own domain, and hope to have my blog transferred shortly.
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