Promiscuous Mobile Media
We saw Thievery Corporation play in San Francisco last night. Great show.
One of the things that you see at concerts and dance clubs these days are people who whip out their phones and take photos and shoot video of the action to send on to their friends who couldn’t be there. The room full of thousands of camera phones basically turns the traditional "no cameras" admonition into a huge joke. I know a guy who will dial up a friend’s voice mail and hold up his phone in the direction of the DJ so his friend can get a taste of the music.
So as we were acting like the cool kids and taking cameraphone shots of each other and the band, a dialog I’d never seen before popped up on my phone. It was a file transfer dialog; somebody was trying to send a file to my phone. It was content related to the band we were watching at that moment — an image of their album cover (included a right), an excerpt of one of their songs, and an chunk of a video of the band (sans audio).
Anyone could have been sending this data around, but I’m assuming that it was some kind of organized thing put on by the band or the concert promoters? If so, wacky. But fun wacky. Maybe we’ll see more of this kind of thing as more people adopt broadband wireless.
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