Farcast Reporter at SIGIR 2007

Registration is open! Interested parties will be able to follow the events at SIGIR 2007 on a multimedia weblog at sigir.farcast.nl, provided by Farcast.

Farcast is a subsidiary of TNO (one of the organizers of the conference). For the duration of SIGIR 2007, a reporter will be providing updates of the conference activities by means of a mobile phone and the Farcast Reporter service. Farcast Reporter enables users to create and publish a weblog posting consisting of text, photos, video or audio annotated with location coordinates directly from a mobile phone at the press of a button. The service is currently in use by a number of major newspapers in the Netherlands and Belgium. For more information on Farcast, please visit www.farcast.nl.

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