Real-time life-logging with iPhone PhotoShare

Thanks to Apple's great marketing effort on iPhone 3G and App Store launch, a large number of users all over the world started using PhotoShare. Although many people are still in the learning process of this new application, a few people have already recognized the true value of this product, and started using it as a "real-time life-logging" application.

Here are some examples:

As you can see, the behavior is very different from blogging or flickering. They post pictures very often (sometime several posts in an hour), expecting viewers to see them in sequence and respond to them in real-time.

This behavior is much more like Twitter-style behavior, which I call, "real-time life-logging" or "live photo-casting". Everybody has their own unique life experience, and applications like PhotoShare allows users to share those experiences in real-time.

I think this is the beginning of true "always-connected" life-style, which people in this industry have been talking about several years but was not be able to achieve. Apple came into this wireless market in 2007, and suddenly became the leader by enabling this new life-style with iPhone and App Store.

Comments

[Robert Nicholson]

This article was posted after the 3g launch. So what's the 3g coverage like in Bellevue, WA :-)

[Mathieu]

I just can't see people wanting to be that dialed in all the time. Yes this generation has less respect for their own privacy but once a few people are creeped out by some random dude who knows a little bit too much about them it will tone it down.