Thanks to Vecosys for this story. The BBC Innovation Lab and Ymogen are trialling mobile, user-generated reporting, using Nokia’s latest mobile devices. You can see the results at this site.

Apparently, the phones don’t just track location, but also direction and velocity, so the information captured is quite novel. The real trick is going to be using this technology in a way that generates a more interesting experience than moblogging. The content at the moment is pretty standard, and apart from the mapping of photos that is done automatically (saving you the effort of doing it yourself in Flickr), there doesn’t seem to be much new here. I wasn’t interested in other people’s snaps from their mobiles before, and this doesn’t increase the value of the content, except I suppose when something major is happening and being photographed in real time.

I suppose using it to document a live event would be interesting in the hands of the right person, but the whole search / recommendation / tagging piece needs to be spot on or it will just be for people to communicate with their mates.