iPhone In Our World: Airplane Crash Photo Hits Web Minutes After Touchdown

Today the iPhone showed off the usefulness of merging social networking over the internet with a portable camera. Just minutes after US flight 1549's crash into the Hudson River hit the newswaves, a photo of the event taking place had already begun circulating around the internet. The photo was taken by Janis Krums (@jkrums), a tourist in New York City from Sarasota, Florida, from which he uploaded it directly to twitter.

This might not seem like a big deal, but it's a reminder of the little ways in which the iPhone is changing our world and connecting us together. Before the iPhone, most would have expected to wait at least a few minutes to an hour before they stumbled on it from a major news outlet. Now that we have the iPhone, however, just about anyone can snap a picture of anything going on in their world and upload it directly to one of several social networks.

[via GearLog]