:: Making a Splash - Posting annotated messages in space ::
Still writing my new book ("Next Generation Wireless Services") and started discussing Semantic Web. The main interest here was in annotating pictures taken from my picture phone. The annotations can be made using a stylus and stored in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This seems a useful idea as it makes sending pictures more fun and it adds a creative component to leaving pictures (or videos) hanging in space (which I now call "Splash Messaging" in the book). Don't know if SVG support is available yet in 3GPP coding standards for picture messaging (MMS), but it should be.
The Semantic Web connection was initially to add information about who is in the picture, so that connections could be made with other people (even in other photos - see co-depiction project). The other semantic would be in the positional coding i.e. data to say where the picture was taken (coded in Point Of Interest eXchange Language - POIX).
Anyway, in case you want to visualise what I'm talking about, here's a demo (thanks to a great tool called Draw SWF). The output here is in Flash, but you can try viewing the actual SVG file (which may flag some warnings due to non-standard tags, but should display in an SVG capable browser like IE6 or Amaya). You can try viewing the SVG file (but I have used fancy hand-writing fonts, courtesy of Chris Pirillo, and these are only viewable in the Flash version unless you have installed them).
12:51:55 PM 
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