11. 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.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the method includes: determining a filtering parameter for filtering thumbnails to be positioned on said map, said filtering parameter included in said user profile; determining whether said thumbnails satisfy the filtering parameter using metadata associated with media objects corresponding to said thumbnails; and filtering said thumbnails based on a determination that said thumbnails correspond to media objects satisfy the filtering parameter, wherein particular ones of said thumbnails satisfying the filtering parameter are positioned on said map, and other particular ones of said thumbnails that do not satisfy the filtering parameter are not positioned on said map.