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In the future, all cameras will have built in ShoZu-like connectivity i.e. the ability to upload photos anywhere anytime using a standard protocol like the Atom publishing protocol with suspend/resume not the bogus connectivity that you get in the Nikon S51C and  even the high end Nikon D3 with optional WiFi transmitter. Connectivity is everything and this bogus Nikon S51C and D3 connectivity is of limited use as Robert has found out.

FROM Scobleizer:Testing Nikon’s new Wifi camera

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If you’re watching my Flickr stream you’ll see images from both my Canon 5D getting uploaded as well as images from a Nikon S51C. This is a cool little camera that has wifi built in. So, I don’t need to hook the camera up to my computer to upload images anymore.

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I wish my Canon 5D had Wifi built into it.

UPDATE: already in my testing I find one thing frustrating: I can’t upload images straight to Flickr. I have to upload them to Nikon’s site first, then visit my computer and post them from there onto Flickr.

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Vox offers video upload via the Atom Publishing Protocol direct from your N93 and other Nokia N series phone with Series 60 v3 (e.g. N73, N80i, N93) and it works great (check out my one and only public Vox video so far - taken with an N93)! The only problem that I see so far is that the Vox Flash video player stutters badly in Firefox 2 and Safari on my 15 inch PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.4.8

Blip.tv, please implement this too. I think all that needs to be done (heh! easy for me to say) is to implement an Atom publish protocol endpoint.

Just hack the config file that Vox provides with your own APP endpoint.

I figure changing:

<protocol_options>
<protocol plugin="Atom" version="0.3">
<endpoint_path>http://www.vox.com/atom</endpoint_path>
<roundtrip_editing>0</roundtrip_editing>
</protocol>
</protocol_options>

to a suitable blip.tv endpoint will make it work! Ha! Just a small matter of code :-) ! Challenge to blip.tv and all the other video services; you now have no excuse for not having direct video upload from phones! And please increase the per video limit from 50MB (Vox's limit) to 100MB.