First sale of cameraphone photo by Scoopt
September 11, 2005 – 10:17 am | by AziziWe previously covered Scoopt, which is positioning itself as a middleman to sell newsworthy camera phone photos taken by the general public, to the news outlets. Techdirt reports that Scoopt has successfully made the first sale.
The “winning” photo in question was from one Stephen Bell, who captured the aftermath of a stolen car that had crashed following a police chase in the Bristol (UK) area. Bell will split equally the “two-digit sum” received from the buyer with Scoopt.
British agency Scoopt has only been open for two months and now it has 2,000 members in 64 countries. Take out your Palm Treo 650 smartphone and become a citizen journalist now!
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One Response to “First sale of cameraphone photo by Scoopt”
By Jim Seybert on Feb 16, 2006 | Reply
Post this on your blog - I think the advice I got from Palm is laughable.
I have a Treo 650 - Verizon version. This is my fourth Palm device, the first was a 1MB non-back lit model. I KNOW how to operate a Palm.
Everything was fine until I downloaded the recent firmware update. Now, when I travel between time zones, the calendar changes event times to match the local zone I am in.
I work in California (PST). On Monday of this week I made an appointment with a client in Chicago for a 2pm meeting when I am in Chicago on Thursday. I entered the appointment at 2pm because that’s what time it will be when I’m in Chicago. I’ve done it this way for years.
Upon arriving in Chicago, my Treo grabbed the local network time. When I opened the calendar, I noticed that the 2pm appointment was now a 4pm appointment.
Repeated emails to Palm have resulted in a number of ridiculous “solutions.”
Their first response was to cut & paste the users manual, instructing me to check/uncheck the calendar preferences.
Then they suggested - this is rich - that I enter the appointment at NOON in California so that when I get to Chicago it will appear at 2pm. (No kidding, I still have the email form them).
Their latest advice is to set the Treo to manual time - leave it on California time - to maintain the correct event time. Problem with that is setting alarms. I am going to bed and need to wake up at 5am Chicago time, but because the phone is on PST, I need to set the alarm for 3am.
This is silly - I can’t believe anyone at Palm thinks this is the right solution, but I have the email from them explaining this exact procedure.
Do you have any ideas? I think I have stepped into a black hole of stupidity.
They also tell me there’s no way to revert to the original firmware version.