A picture is worth a thousand words is the new slogan of Twitxr, a photo-enabled Twitter clone that has recently been launched by Fon Labs. The launch created buzz in blogs and the media even though similar Twitter variations already appeared such as Zannel or Twit Pic.
I didn’t test all the services in detail but Twitxr seems to be different as it is automatically adding location details to the picture and text which makes it much more powerful. Recently, I just had the same idea and really liked it…
Today we are viewing public webcams to get a glimpse of the current weather, skiing conditions or other things on certain places. If real time geo-tagged mobile photo blogging is taking off we will basically have ubiquitous webcams all around us where interesting things are happening.
Imagine the FIFA World Cup Final 2010 between Italy and Germany in South Africa. Do you want to know what is going on around the stadium, on the streets in Berlin, Rome or anywhere else (when Germany will – of course – win)? Go to a twittervision-like website that supports photos and geolocation, zoom in on the area of your interest and you will instantaneously see what is going on there. Brought to you live, with comments and feelings by real people like you and me and not the traditional media.
Crowdsourced live streaming of any place or event – your vacation destination, a football game, a demonstration or even coverage of a terrorist attack as it happened in London where people quickly started to upload pictures to the web.
Twitxr doesn’t provide exact pinpointing of your location to date. Hence, this is still a vision but more and more phones contain GPS receivers and mobile plans become cheaper. What do you think? Will we have a broad distribution of mobile photo blogging services by 2010 or is this to optimistic?
