WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

SnapMyLife is inviting people around the world with a mobile phone to take a snapshot of their New Year's celebrations at 11:59 p.m. and 12:01 a.m. when the new year starts. Their news release claims "this is the first global, grassroots, mobile photo collage of a world event."

SnapMyLife's mobile-web community allows users to share, discover and location-tag photos from around the world.

"Ringing in 2009 and telling stories through pictures from around the world is a perfect example of what SnapMyLife is about," said David Chang, co-founder of SnapMyLife. "We often see pictures of our local New Year's parties, but through SnapMyLife, you can instantly see how people are celebrating in small towns and big cities on every continent around the world."

People who are interested in participating and seeing the last photos of 2008 and the first of 2009 can:

View photos of New Year's Eve celebrations around the world

• To see images people are submitting, go to www.snapmylife.com/tags/show/newyears
• To see photos from specific countries or cities, go to www.snapmylife.com/maps

Submit photos to the global photo collage

• Register at snapmylife.com.
• Email or MMS the photos you take at 11:59 p.m. and 12:01 a.m. to your personal upload address and include the tag "newyears" in the body of the message.
• Photos taken with Apple iPhones are automatically geo-tagged. Consumers with regular phones can simply add their city and country in the text of the email.

SnapMyLife was launched in April, 2008 and has grown to more than 1.5 million unique visitors per month and over 500,000 registered users.