Mike Temporale
04-04-2005, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008389.html' target='_blank'>http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008389.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"...if I've got a 1GB memory card in my mobile phone and most of that filled with messages and media, well there's no reason why that stuff can't be found by a web search, no? Either via a traditional public web search using Yahoo or even a more futuristic "social search", where I only look at the stuff that my friends make available for me. The point is that right now there's a cumbersome uploading and permissions process that most people don't get around to doing. A use case is pretty easy to come up with: "Hey - that was a great ski trip this past weekend, I'd love to get any pictures of me that Joe took. Let me search his camera phone to see what he took that's labelled with my name."</i><br /><br />Russel has a really interesting suggestion about indexing and making your mobile devices searchable. It would be really cool to label a batch of pictures and allow them to be downloaded from my phone to a friends device or even their computer. Give the article a read and let us know your thoughts. Should your device be searchable or even sharable?