Not new technology, but the social networking websites are the new factor enabling very fast distribution of images direct from phone to web page... Very little thought is required, whereas in the recent past it'd have been a conscious effort.
Quite soon the default behaviour of a phone will be to send every picture you take straight to your social network profile so you can more easily share and manage your digital life, or something.
This is true. My new Samsung 8910, after I take a pic it defaults to wanting to load it up onto the internet. Not figured out how to switch that off yet.