Shozu and Location Tags

Shozu is an image uploading service created for mobile devices. The idea is that when you take photos on your camera phone, as most people do these days, they can be uploaded straight away to a site such as flickr and with all the relevant tags put in place by you on your phone. At the moment, the application is only available for certain models of mobile phone, but the number is increasing all the time. An application like this would be the kind of thing that people would use to upload their photographs of events that they were at. The photos could either be sent to a website, or they could be sent locally to a sever at the venue, and the venue could then provide the service of making them available to the public. This would also enable for easy tagging, as the people running the event would be able to tag all incoming photos of that night with the relevant event name. It would also allow for moderation, with people browsing the incoming images for inappropriate content.

flickr also have another useful piece of technology on their site with location tagging. When a user uploads a photo, they can also input the location at which it was taken. This makes it possible for users to search for a location, and then browse all the photos taken there. This combined with some sort of date/time searching would be how users could find images of their events.