Yahoo! ZoneTag 2-click-uploads location-tagged photos to Flickr
Yahoo! has just rolled out a new
application for Nokia Series 60 handset owners that allows them to not only 2-click upload their cameraphone photos to
Flickr, but actually tag them with general location data for personal reference and providing viewers with context. The
ZoneTag app is a free download that runs in the background when your phone is in "camera" mode, and offers to
location-stamp and upload each photo upon capture, gathering the spatial info based on either coordinates from a
Bluetooth-paired GPS device or more commonly the unique ID from the cell tower that handled the data transfer. Yahoo!
has built an evolving database that relies on users manually tagging their stamped-photos with ZIP codes or GPS
coordinates to provide a correlation between tower IDs and real-world locations, so the service will get more accurate
over time. Privacy controls ensure that only those people whom you specify can view your photos, and only those shots
that you approve are location-stamped, so you can simply use the service for MMS-less pic-sharing if that's your thing.














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gwenith tucker @ Feb 26th 2006 11:21AM
Is this how you enter for a free phone? Hope I win
dhananjay @ Feb 26th 2006 12:20PM
Hey I'd like to see if this is for real!!!
bakatron @ Feb 26th 2006 2:00PM
now this is a service that i've been waiting for. for too long, ive head to lug my phone and laptop everywhere. at the end of a hectic tourist session where ive taken a lot of pictures, ive had to transfer the images to the laptop, prepare them for web viewing and then upload them.
professionally speaking as a person who travels a lot and works in a video game company, taking reference photography in foreign locations is something thats a very dominant aspect of my job. uploading them quickly for my coworkers to see from any remote locations makes my life a lot easier.
next time i shuttle between different countries, im signing up for this service.
Oscar @ Feb 26th 2006 5:54PM
Yeah! I was waiting for an app like this!
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john farrow @ Feb 26th 2006 10:34PM
As a free lance photographer, think this is One SUPER deal!
Ashraf Al Shafaki @ Feb 27th 2006 4:32AM
Proximity search is a cool feature in PicoBlogger 3.0 www.picostation.com.
charlie @ Feb 27th 2006 6:30AM
i am am pretty sure this is based on merkitys http://meaning.3xi.org/.
Mor Naaman @ Feb 27th 2006 2:05PM
Thanks for the post and feedback!
As a member of the ZoneTag team, I would like to point out a couple of things.
First, "Yahoo! has just rolled out" would be an overstatement... ZoneTag is a research prototype from Yahoo! Research Berkeley. The ZoneTag prototpye is going to have a limited number of users (sign up quickly!). ZoneTag will be available for a limited number of handsets (make sure you have one that we support). Finally, the service might not be offered forever. Well, nothing is forever, but you know what I mean.
Second, although very related to Merkitys (we love it!), ZoneTag is in no way "based" on it.
Okay everyone, start tagging your zone...