Getting Married in the Age of Technology
Ahh the age of technology. The days of annoying photographers and coffee table wedding albums with pasted sepia photographs are long gone. In their place; digital cameras, live streaming video and S60.
Mr. Ricky Cadden of Symbian-Guru, MobileBurn and most recently S60 is getting married today and his guest list is comprised of tens of thousands of people. No, he isn’t having an ostentatious celebrity event in a massive arena. Ricky is having a ceremony and reception powered by technology. Guest photos will be uploaded instantly to Flickr using ShoZu, attendee perspectives will be micro-blogged to Jaiku and live video will be streaming in real-time thanks to four Nokia N82 handsets, the Flixwagon app / service and a special page set up on Flixwagon’s site.
The N82 is billed as a storytelling device and today it will be pushed to the limits in order to tell one hell of a story. I’ll be attending the old fashioned way - in person - but I wonder if my experience will be any more “real” than that of the virtual guests. If you think about it, I will likely miss out on a great number of experiences that online followers will be able to enjoy as I only have one set of eyes and one vantage point. Virtual guests will see and hear things through the eyes of two, four, maybe even 10 people at a time. Using Jaiku they can interact with several guests simultaneously and watch as images pop up in Flickr feeds. Using Flixwagon they can comment live during a video stream and their comments will be seen instantly on the screens of guests operating the N82s
So if you’re a fan of Symbian-Guru, MobileBurn or just a passer-by with a penchant for technology, and you want some amazing insight into this very special day in the life of a well-respected Symbian blogger - you don’t need an invitation or a plain ticket. All you need is an internet connection, a computer and a web browser. “Times they are ‘a changing.”
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