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While in Tallinn, Estonia, Esther Dyson sent me a snapshot of the view from her hotel using her Treo 600 camera phone:

UPDATE: This photo is part of her column in the NY Times

Esther also posts on part of her Estonia experience paying for wifi with her cell phone, points to the Estonian Hot or Not and some factoids:

Some facts gleaned from Estonian Airlines' magazine: Of Estonia's 1.4 million people, 48 percent are Internet users (who may pay their taxes online) and 68 percent are mobile-phone subscribers. The government's Cabinet does not use paper but instead relies on a Web-based document-management system.

Some other Estonia factoids here and here.

Comments

[Mark Johnson]

Hi:

Cool photo from Estonia.

Do you know what the name of Esther's hotel was?

I publish a collaborative hotel publication called Hotel Chatter, and would love to run this photo and a story on her hotel.

Thanks
Mark

[Baltic Blog]

Looks to me like she was in the Olympia or the Raddison hotel.
It's kind of hard to tell from that particular angle without Old Town in the background, even though I live about a block from that building with the pointed roof.
I would guess the Olympia.

[Ross Mayfield]

Its the Olympia. When I first moved there I stayed in an apartment immeadiately below. Of course, Stockman's wasn't there yet, the white building on the bottom left. But its amazing how the skyline has change and unfortunate the best skyline, of old town, is out of view.