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In my News reader, I have a folder reserved for ‘GOLD’ class blogs. Between the Aximsite and  Mobilitysite feeds is The Dilbert Blog and its associated rss feed, which is ALWAYS worth reading.

Today, His Scott-ness has come up with a corker of an idea for a digital camera, which I’d buy in an instant if I could.

It goes something like this.

1. Take Digital camera and add GPS unit to tag all photos with GPS location
2. When photo is uploaded on your computer it loads them onto a Google map type backdrop to form a digital scrapbook
3. It would also tie into credit card details of what he purchased
4. With some facial recognition software to identify the people in the software we’d then have everything it needs for step 5

And Step 5 is

Automatically labeling your photographs for you as it files them in your online digital scrapbook.

let’s say you take a picture of a family member standing in front of the hotel where you are staying. The GPS from your camera would provide the approximate location, and when the scrapbook system compared it to your credit card receipts, it would know you stayed at the hotel near those coordinates. Your digital photo would be automatically labeled “Bob at the Hilton in Cleveland, April 15, 2008.” And it would store those pictures at a labeled location on the Google map.

When the vacation is over, the scrapbook is 85% complete. You just have to check its assumptions and add/correct any descriptors you want.

Scott Explains this far better than I’ve done.. (he knows proper words and everything) but I’m hoping that someone is reading this and offers it as a service.. (but maybe without the credit card stuff)

All the pieces of technology are there… all we really need is for someone to join them up.

Can’t wait to see what he’s going to write about tomorrow

Source: The Dilbert Blog

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