IYOUIT is a mobile alpha service to share personal experiences with others while on the go. It was released in June 2008 by NTT Docomo Euro-Labs and discontinued in August 2011. IYOUIT allows for an instant automated sharing of personal experiences within communities online. It offers contextual tagging for use in everyday life. By hooking a mobile phone up to the

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services

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and

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, sharing can be instant, by posting single data items to such services, or through the aggregation of context information in online blogs. IYOUIT provides users with access to the whereabouts of their friends, informs them about

weather Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the ...

conditions and uploads photos taken and sounds recorded. If the user comes across a book (or other products), they can take a picture of the

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code or the product ID with the phone's camera, and IYOUIT will fill in the blanks for instant exchange with friends. IYOUIT records scanned

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beacons and aggregates all data into context information that can be shared with others worldwide on the Web and on the mobile phone.

Software

IYOUIT has been developed by NTT Docomo Euro-Labs in Munich together with the Dutch

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in a joint research project on platform support for

Context Awareness Context awareness refers, in information and communication technologies, to a capability to take into account the ''situation'' of ''entities'', which may be users or devices, but are not limited to those. ''Location'' is only the most obvious el ...

in mobile services and applications. The application is available from the IYOUIT portal at http://www.iyouit.eu. It is written in

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and runs on the

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Series-S60 platform (see

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). IYOUIT is based on its own

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to host services and data sources. Framework components, for instance, track the positions of users via

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and cellular information and identify places of interest over time by learning form their past behavior. Each component offers an

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, which allows programmers to integrate their own third party software components.

Software

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