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Where might your brilliant spots be?

May 24th, 2009

ICT and education, technology application

Brillian spot Yahoo a few days ago started sticking pavement signs around London. The idea is to create a viral photography event getting the population to take photos with their mobile phones using MMS, email or tags in Flickr (MMS 07786 201 809, email brilliantspot@yahoo.co.uk, add it to the ‘Brilliant Spots’ group on Flickr). A pretty cool idea in marketing terms to get individuals photoblogging or networking using Flickr. Here’s the promotional video:

Yahoo! Brilliant Spots (rev) @ Yahoo! Video

In total there are 252 brilliant spots covering central London. I’ve no idea if anyone yet has attempted to visit all of them and take a photograph, but it seems a obvious thing to attempt. Replicating the idea as an educational / classroom activity is another fun idea, getting students to consider where your local “brilliant spots” might be, creating an interactive Google Map using Panoramio or Geotweeting those places.

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Tags: Flickr, Brilliant spot, geotagging

Gareth Davies posted this entry on Sunday, May 24th, 2009 at 9:00 am. Posted in the category ICT and education, technology application You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Where might your brilliant spots be?”

Linda Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 8:49 am

…great idea for livening up the ‘Around your area’ unit. Have you seen umapper - easier to use than Panaramio (I think) and has a quiz option too.