the power of a connected experience

December 5, 2006 in Mugshot | 8 comments

The Hat Rack
The Hat Rack

I want to echo Bryan’s comment about the way that he deals with images on his phone. Since I’ve started using mugshot and flickr and my phone together, the way that I use my phone has changed. It’s fun to use the camera. Before I would just take a picture and it would just sit there unused. Sure, I could txt it to someone else and maybe they could see it on their tiny little screens too but more often than not it lost its meaning.

I’ve encouraged my friends to start adding their flickr accounts to mugshot and now when they take pictures, I get a little popup that lets me see what they have uploaded and a chance to go see it. Also, I can comment on the images from the chat link on the bubble. It’s a great time. I feel suddenly connected to other people via their phones and online personalities. Sounds corny, but something has shifted for me. When Havoc talked about a “live social online experience” back at the Red Hat Summit it didn’t have the kind of impact actually using it on a day to day basis brings.

Also, I have to put this in here.

DEAR MUGSHOT TEAM,

PLEASE PUT TOGETHER A MAC CLIENT.  IT'S REALLY NEEDED TO SO
I CAN TALK TO ALL MY NON-GEEK FRIENDS.

LOVE,
CHRIS

  1. Hub’s avatar

    Hub on December 5, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    <subliminal>I offered the mugshot team to do it for hire :-)</subliminal>

    :-)

  3. phik’s avatar

    phik on December 6, 2006 at 12:36 am

    Dear Mugshot Team,

    When Chris writes “non-geek friends,” he could also be interpreted to mean “friends, geek and otherwise, who no longer believe that adding or removing a display should require a restart, or suspending and resuming be an operation for which odds of success are assigned.”

    But I may have misinterpreted him. I will ask our mutual geek friends what they think, during the upcoming video conference, which we will set up with four clicks.

    Love,

    -p

  5. dria’s avatar

    dria on December 6, 2006 at 12:48 am

    Flickr has RSS feeds. I can get notifications about my friends’ new photos on my mac already.

  6. blizzard’s avatar

    blizzard on December 6, 2006 at 8:00 am

    I guess I should have said my “non-bitter friends.”

  7. Alan’s avatar

    Alan on December 6, 2006 at 9:10 am

    phone camera bug me, there does not seem to be any way to get the image out of the damned things at full quality (although “quality” hardly seems appropriate). Seems impossible to avoid the downscaling, and the quality is pretty crappy to begin with.

  8. kOoLiNuS’s avatar

    kOoLiNuS on December 6, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    have you joined a Linux distribution group on Flickr already ?

    If not you (and your friends) are welcome on http://www.flickr.com/groups/fedora/