The ability to capture and distribute photographs instantly (relatively – there is a delay of up to 10 minutes of delay to fully propagate through the network) is one of the most useful tools a traveller can have on their journey, as it provides almost-real-time updates to their followers throughout the world, without them having to slow down, or stop and find internet access. It can also be a useful safety net.
Photographs taken from our cellphones (basic phones with low (1-2) megapixel cameras and MMS capabilities – nothing fancy here) are sent to a dedicated flickr upload email address using email-over-MMS, where they are uploaded to the transglobal flickr account. The subject line becomes the title, and the email body becomes the description of the photo. It’s also possible to tag your photos in this method – we have chosen to have flickr automatically tag all of our mobile uploads with “mobile“, not only for ease of organisation, but also because it allows us to feed all of our photographs to Twittergram based on their tags.
They’ve got a very elegant flow for mobile blogging set up, and explain it in detail.
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