Upload and Share on the go (without all that hassle)

I’ve been encouraging lots of people lately to get setup using various services from their mobile phones… because it’s fun. If you have a mobile phone with an ok camera and some data access you can do it too.

Look at me I’m working from the OLPC offices today

Here’s how I’m working it.

I added both my YouTube and Flickr accounts to my Mugshot Page and Mugshot does the polling of my accounts notifying people when I upload new things. With Flickr you can upload by email and with YouTube you can setup a mobile profile. Tada, now when I upload a new photo or video I don’t have to worry that they have the right phone or cell plan to see my stuff. And Mugshot just makes it so everyone else doesn’t need a corresponding account at all the places I have, or that they log into them regularly to see what changed.

And I brought my dog to work

For a while I was trying to send camera photos around using SMS, but it never seemed to work. If someone was on a different network or phone didn’t allow photos or evil monkeys stole the message it wouldn’t seem to be delivered. However when I upload it to a site I can assume people will see it eventually and I can use the photo or video later in a blog post… like this.

Quietly, Mugshot signup has become open to anyone.