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Monday, January 14, 2008

Blackberry to offer Picasa Web Albums upload

Blackberry have put up a page for their forthcoming mobile phone uploader that uploads directly to Picasa Web Albums.

At the moment the page does not offer many details - though there's a big section of legal type small print at the bottom of the page - helpfully hidden away in gray on gray text so as not to distract you!

One detail that is available is the fact that for GPS enabled Backberry devices, the uploader will geotag the photos with the location you uploaded them from.  This seems like a bad idea to me - a recipe for getting loads of photos with bad metadata attached to them.  The correct thing of course is for the camera application to write in the geolocation at the time the picture is taken, not for a separate program to add the location of an action that takes place quite possibly much later and possibly far removed geographically from the original action.  I hope there are controls on this, so that for example you can tell it not to geotag the images if they were taken more than an hour ago.

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