"Now people can bypass us using a camera phone and a social network, and the means of production have been completely overturned," added Mark Little, chief executive of Storyful.
This involves embedding data in a photograph which can then be decoded using a camera phone.
The results can be detected by the naked eye and simply quantified by using a camera phone and image analysis software.
For example, using Bluetooth, you can take a photo using a camera phone and download the image to a Macintosh, then send it to a printer over a wireless connection.
The codes made by JAGTAG, of Princeton, New Jersey, for example, can be photographed using a camera phone and then sent to a messaging service that analyses the code and sends back appropriate information.
With advances in camera phone technology, using a camera phone to scan bar codes likely will become more accurate but that doesn't mean the application will become widespread.
It works by skewing a yellow hue in the picture and using a camera phone with a Java application to decipher the information.
Recently, TypePad and others have begun experimenting with moblogging, which is short for "mobile blogging" -- it most often means using a camera phone to post images to a blog.
The only problem with the site is the poor quality of the photographs – users tend to take the photos themselves, with a mirror, often using a camera phone in poor lighting.
The clip was filmed using a camera phone and it shows Knowles rehearsing "1+1" backstage at American Idol with no microphone and simple keyboard accompaniment.
I found out later through one of the woman's friends that they used a camera phone app to trick everybody.
