Servingo Diary: A Context-Aware Blogging System for World Cup 2006

摘要

With the appearance of camera enabled mobile telephone units, manufacturers and network operators expected photo sharing to become an application used by a huge amount of customers and, as a result, a growing demand for bandwidth. But as the development of hardware was a few years ahead the software, this boom failed to appear. In recent years, this situation started to change with the appearance of mobile blogging systems such as Picostation, Textamerica or Flickr. These systems allow the user to upload photos or videos by sending an electronic mail or multimedia message to the provider. These are then listed in the user's blogs, either sorted by time, some tags classifying the content or by popularity or rating. Shortcomings of these are the restriction to visible media and the fact that the images are isolated and free of context: neither the location nor the event or object shown on the picture is part of the metadata descriptions provided with each media.