I took a walk to the horses this afternoon; a live media-walk for MIDMoves to test out some geographically-tagged capabilities on the big Web thing. Tracking is nothing new. Location-based tweets and near-live video posts are nothing new. Putting it all together in a media-rich way and being able to show it live is something different though. It highlights the difference between a smartphone and a PC-based MID or UMPC. There’s just no way you can tie all the components together and post-process it into a presentation like this with a smartphone. Having access to full-screen Web2.0 applications and smooth multi-tasking was the key here. There’s lots of improvements that can be made but this is a great step forward for live, media-rich tracking.
Move and zoom the map below and click on the icons for videos, audio recordings, tweets and images.
Source: MIDMoves.com
Thanks to Mobilxfor the i1. Ipokifor the live tracking app.
Source: MIDMoves.com Thanks to Mobilx for the i1. Ipoki for the live tracking app.
Watch out next week for a very special live geo-media tour on MIDMoves.
January 16th, 2009 at 4:07 am
Wow Steve this is a seriously impressive mashup. It is great to be able to open the map in full screen Google Maps and see all the content that you have added. This is definitely media-rich stuff right here. GPS track obviously looks a bit crazy, but I’m sure that is due to interference from trees and other things. I look forward to seeing more of this!
January 16th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Great mashup. While on MidMoves will you be doing a comparison of the I1 to the other Mid/UMPCs you’ll be using?
You should cross-reference these I1 posts on the Wibrain Forum.
Any news on when the I1 might get released?