I-gizmo Hosts Weekly Photo Contest

Earlier this year, I came up with an idea for a 'community app' for mobile -- a daily (or weekly) cameraphone photo contest, with the winning entries voted on by users. I've always loved user-created entertainment (hence my Karaoke obsession) and cameraphones seem like a great device for this kind of app. After sketching out a design spec and initial business plan, I concluded that it's too early to develop this as a for-profit service. So I put the idea aside and moved on.

Lo and behold - here's a cool site called i-gizmo that's doing almost exactly what I had in mind, but for the Web (rather than for mobile). Each week, they announce a 'theme' and then people submit photos and vote on each other's work. I've been enjoying the contests tremendously - in a similar way to how I enjoy a night out at a karaoke bar.

I STILL think it'd be really great if this type of service could be delivered on my mobile phone. It's too early, but someday... someday...