Last week, Erica Sadun of tuaw.com announced the marriage of Bonjour, an application that offers configuration-free networking technology, and the iPhone. With Bonjour, your iPhone and iPod touch can talk to your Mac, to printers or to each other. They can also browse for available services or provide their own as a server.

For her initial project, Sadun put together a couple of applications: PicSend and PicListen. These apps allow you to subscribe to a camera on another person’s iPhone. Just tell that iPhone to snap a picture and within seconds that picture appears on your own screen. You can download copies of PicSend and PicListen from Sadun’s FTP site.

As Sadun suggests, sending pictures back and forth between iPhones isn’t a huge deal until you realize that you’re not limited to pictures. “With Bonjour, you can send files, data, sounds, videos, anything that transfers from one computer to another.” With this application, it is possible that the iPhone will soon be able to “discover” printers in its area and offer to print out pictures or webpages.

The possibilities of social computing with iPhones, iPod touches and Bonjour are certainly compelling for those of us interested in the utilization of these devices for teaching and learning. In a classroom full of Bonjour equipped iPhones, a teacher might snag the picture off of a student’s phone to project it for the entire class or might also “manage” the content students are viewing.

For more information and programming details check out the full tuaw.com article.