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My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.

We++ Mobile Social Software

coultonp | 17 July, 2007 12:01

A while ago I blogged about an application (m3Dcam) Will Bamford and I had come up with that allows users to create their own 3D photographs on their mobile and upload them to a community site. As I said at the time the project was meant to be a bit of fun and I was expecting fairly minimal interest for a number of reasons
1.       You need 3D glasses to view the result (I now carry a pair with me at alltimes !)
2.       The users bares the cost of the up-load
3.       The cost is more than a single picture as we split the image between eyes and colour planes.
4.       Its fun but not really a social activity
Despite this we have had over 650 uploads and if you Google m3dcam you get literally hundreds of hits and my first blog has be viewed over 1100 times.
I am reminded by of something Howard Rheinhold said in his book Smartmobs “The ‘Killer Apps” of tomorrows mobile infocom industry won’t be hardware devices or software programs but social practices”. Whilst I would not completely agree with the influence new hardware might play I am minded to think that given this example predicting social practices in the area of mobile social software  is going to be tricky and success could come from the strangest of places
BTW the site now supports colour images as shown and there is a handy flash viewer that Will has created which allows you to practice how best to do the alignment.


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Re: We++ Mobile Social Software

rajeshdhote | 17/07/2007, 14:40

Its amazing....Cheers

Re: We++ Mobile Social Software

coultonp | 17/07/2007, 14:50

coultonp Thanx

If only i could make some money ;)
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