ExperienceCurve by Karl Long

A friend of mine, Paul Whitaker from Nokia is currently flying a 1940 Piper cub from Paris Texas to San Francisco and he’s making a tremendous use of social media to document his adventure. His plane can only travel about 150 miles at a time at 70 miles an hour, which means he has to make 24 hops, going from small local airfield to local airfield. He has a blog obviously at adventurecub.com, and he also has a flickr map mashup documenting his route, all the photos being taken on his N95, automatically geotagged, and uploaded to Flickr via Shozu, an amazing little media sharing tool.

Not to be too much of a Nokia fan boy it is pretty damn cool to be able to take pictures from the plane as your flying and upload them to flickr It’s almost the equivilent of visual tweeting, I wonder when twitter will allow picture uploads like this, or even photos that are tagged with certain information. I hope I can do the same thing when I’m in Vietnam this Chrismas, although i’m not sure what the cell phone coverage will be there.