If one looks at all the emerging photo services that are built using confluence of mobile phone cameras, Internet, and social networks then one may start thinking that photos, and visual memory, is a fleeting experience. From Instagrams of the…
Photos are more than Fleeting experiences
Photo Taking Behaviour: Teens of Photography
Comes 2009 (which conveniently I consider for this discussion as 2010) and we enter the new decade — lets call Teens. Teens brought smartphones, first iPhone and then Android. The camera in these phones is not the same quality as…
Photo Taking Behaviour: Past
A few days ago, I came back from a trip to Evanston, Illinois. There I met lots of important and interesting people and took lots of photos. The weekend before that also traveling and was in Tempe for an event…
Visual Reflections
We are passing through an important technical revolution that may have long term impact on our society. This is the revolution brought by camera technology introduced in mobile phones. This is easily observed by entrepreneurs. Considering how easy it has…
Reflecting on your life
Many projects like LifeLog, myLifeBits, and eChronicles started to keep track of life memories. In fact UK has a computing Grand Challenge called “Memories for Life” that is related to this. People find it fascinating to save their experiences and…