Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for tying items of information to features in an area associated with a captured media object. An information provider may associate physical coordinates and temporal information with an item of information. When a media object is captured, metadata indicating the location and direction from which, and the time at which, the media object was captured, and/or, in the instance where the media object is an image, a focal and zoom setting of the device that captured the image, may be generated and stored with the media object. When the media object is viewed, this information, as well as other metadata associated with the capturing and/or reproducing of the media object, as well as the media object itself, may be used to estimate the area corresponding to the media object and to determine item(s) of information corresponding with features in the estimated area.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for tying items of information to features in an area associated with a captured media object. An information provider may associate physical coordinates and temporal information with an item of information. When a media object is captured, metadata indicating the location and direction from which, and the time at which, the media object was captured, and/or, in the instance where the media object is an image, a focal and zoom setting of the device that captured the image, may be generated and stored with the media object. When the media object is viewed, this information, as well as other metadata associated with the capturing and/or reproducing of the media object, as well as the media object itself, may be used to estimate the area corresponding to the media object and to determine item(s) of information corresponding with features in the estimated area.

Abstract: A first device is coupled to a peer-to-peer data processing network. Resources of the peer-to-peer data processing network are allocated based on credits, and the credits are earned based on contribution of resources to the peer-to-peer data processing network. An association is created between the first device and the second device, and data describing the association is accessible via the peer-to-peer data processing network. First credits are accumulated via the first device based on first resources contributed to the peer-to-peer data processing network by the first device. The second device is coupled to the peer-to-peer data processing network. The second device then accesses the resources of the peer-to-peer processing data network utilizing the first credits based on the association between the first device and the second device.