Cameraphone revolution

Before her demise, the then HP CEO Carly Fiorina described the digital revolution as being about helping people tell their stories. Well it seems this was more than revolution rhetoric.

Building on the work of Daisuke Okabe and Howard Rheingold who recognised that cameraphones "…represent a new opportunity to tell the story of our lives to ourselves as well as to others," HP researchers are exploring ways to lower the barriers to digital storytelling:

StoryCast is an experimental digital storytelling service that lets people use their camera phones and other mobile devices to easily create and instantly share stories with friends and family. Each story consists of a sort of narrated slide show of photos accompanied by the storyteller's voice.