Techniques for managing media content

A method, comprising:

• receiving multiple media objects;
• associating metadata with each media object;
• retrieving a set of user preferences to define the metadata associated with a given media object from a user profile;
• organizing said media objects into hierarchical categories based on said metadata associated with each media object, said metadata including location information metadata generated using a location device when the media object is created;
• displaying multiple thumbnail images for said hierarchical categories in a media album, and a collection of thumbnail images for each of multiple media albums for said hierarchical categories in a media album collection, on a display for a mobile computing device, the collection of thumbnail images for each of multiple media albums displayed as a reduced image size of each of the multiple thumbnail images grouped in the media album;
• and
• generating a map with a thumbnail image of a media object positioned on said map using said location information metadata associated with said media object, the thumbnail image to visually identify content for the media object.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed by a processor, enable a system to:

• receive multiple media objects,
• associate metadata with each media object,
• retrieve a set of user preferences to define the metadata associated with a given media object from a user profile;
• organize said media objects into hierarchical categories based on said metadata associated with each media object, said metadata including location information metadata generated using a location device when the media object is created,
• display multiple thumbnail images for said hierarchical categories in a media album, and a collection of thumbnail images for each of multiple media albums for said hierarchical categories in a media album collection, on a display for a mobile computing device, the collection of thumbnail images for each of multiple media albums displayed as a reduced image size of each of the multiple thumbnail images grouped in the media album;
• and
• generate a map with a thumbnail image of a media object positioned on said map using said location information metadata associated with said media object, the thumbnail image to visually identify content for the media object.