Posts tagged flickr
Quick App Updates: Tweetie, Loopt, Foursquare, Flickr — Including iPhone 3.2 Compatibility(!)
Mar 12th
Tapped on App Store and what did I see? Updates for Tweetie, Loopt, Foursquare, and Flickr — and a couple of those say iPhone OS 3.2 (aka iPad) right there in the What’s New listing. (Yeah, that doesn’t mean 3.2 is coming to the iPhone or these are 1024×768 versions, likely just that they’re built using that SDK for maximum blackboxing on the iPad).
Tweetie [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just hit version 2.1.1 and brings iPhone OS 3.2 compatibility(!), Foursquare (4sq.com) integration, Vodpod video uploads, Post ‘message’ parameter to TwitPic, and Instapaper Mobilizer. See our previous Tweetie coverage for more on the app.
Loopt [Free - iTunes link] expands the product’s Pulse feature to include tens of thousands of local events, and allows check-in to events, public Tips, and the ability to RSVP to events posted on Facebook. It’s also got you covered for SXSW, and adds content from SonicLiving, Zvents and Metromix.
Foursquare [Free - iTunes link] brings a whole new look and feel (see below), faster, better checkin, and categories for Places view. Also, it has history for Places, and uses Tweetie-style pull-to-refresh.
Flickr [Free - iTunes link] iPhone OS 3.2 support (!)
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Roku Adds Channel Store with Facebook, Flickr, Pandora, and More
Nov 23rd
Internet-enabled set-top box makers Roku (who we wrote about in our top 10 gadgets for social media addicts feature recently) have some welcome announcements today about 10 new, free content partners being added to the platform in an also new Roku Channel Store section.
Coming to the new “App Store”-style store are popular video providers blip.tv, independent netcasters Revision3 and This Week in Tech, photo browsing from both Flickr and your Facebook photos, music from recommendation engine Pandora, plus content FrameChannel, Mediafly, MobileTribe, and Motionbox.
As internet-based television and other video content marches into the living room, we’re seeing a number of different approaches to bringing online video to the big screen. Some, like Boxee, began as a software interface that makes hooking up your computer to your TV an easier experience and later began pursuing a dedicated hardware solution. Roku began initially as a hardware solution — an alternative to (or addition to) the set-top box that powers your cable subscription.
Roku has several different players available including a standard definition model and two flavors of high-definition boxes. Existing content partners will of course remain, with Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand and MLB.TV also available for streaming video to the devices. The new Channel Store represents a shift towards building an open platform model to allow new channel partners to more easily make their content available via the Roku box.
How do you watch internet video in the home? Do you have a setup that brings online television to your actual television?
Reviews: App Store, Boxee, Facebook, Flickr, Pandora
Tags: facebook, flickr, ONLINE VIDEO, pandora, revision 3, roku, Twit, video
LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Video Sharing Service?
Nov 20th
It’s Friday, people, which means that not only is it Follow Friday, it’s also time for the Lunchtime Poll! Last week we wanted to know about your favorite news reader (or whether you use RSS at all). We’ll have the results for you later today, but let’s get a head start on the new poll: what’s your favorite video sharing service?
We’ll start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and let you fine folks have at it in the comments. Be sure to let us know along with your vote why you chose it as your favorite. We’ll post the results next week to show the zeitgeist from Mashable readers.
Are you in? Let’s roll the question!
What’s your favorite video sharing service?
Mashable Faves
Adam Ostrow: YouTube or Ustream. It’s all about the content.
Pete Cashmore: YouTube.
Sharon Feder: I’m not a power user, but Vimeo is definitely my favorite.
Ben Parr: Viddler, YouTube, and Ustream, depending on the situation.
Christina Warren: Vimeo, because it has the best quality.
Barb Dybwad: I like Qik for mobile, Flickr for short visually-interesting clips, and YouTube for an endless stream of distractions punctuated by hilarious cats.
Tamar Weinberg: YouTube because it actually can process Kodak Zi6 videos (Flickr and Vimeo cannot), but Vimeo has a really awesome GUI.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ericsphotography
Reviews: Flickr, Mashable, Vimeo, YouTube, iStockphoto, ustream
Tags: flickr, lunchtime poll, qik, ustream, viddler, video, video sharing, youtube
CanvasPop Puts Your Digital Art on Your (Real) Wall
Nov 19th
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
Name: CanvasPop
Quick Pitch: CanvasPop allows you to upload and print virtually any image onto a canvas, even iPhone and Facebook pics, at any size you want.
Genius Idea: CanvasPop lets users and artists turn their photographs or digital art into canvas printed wall art. You can use photos from Flickr, Facebook, your iPhone and more and make your artistic creations really stand out.
It’s funny to think that, in under 10 years, the film camera has all but disappeared. Sure, film lovers still keep around their pristine 35mm and lens collections and toy camera lovers (can I get a holler from my fellow Holga owners?!) find new ways to create unique and different images, but at this point digital is by and large cheaper, faster and of higher quality. As a result, many of us have the bulk of our photo albums stored digitally, uploaded to services like Facebook or Flickr, and only print out those really special photos.
But what do you do when you have a really spectacular photograph or digital image and you want to do something bigger with it? CanvasPop is a service that lets users easily and affordably have their creations printed on canvas in a variety of sizes and with the option to use digital filters to add in some really specular results.
If you’ve ever tried to get something printed on canvas, you know that it can be expensive. CanvasPop is surprisingly reasonable, with prices for rolled canvas prints starting at $30 for an 8×10 and framed images starting at just $49.
As the holiday season approaches, having a photo or digital image printed on something large enough to hang on a wall or above a desk can be a great, great gift. CanvasPop makes it easy to use an image from programs like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator or from your digital camera or from services like Facebook. Flickr and Picasa.
We love it when digital technology can merge with something more tangible. What do you think of canvas photo printing?
Spark of Genius Series Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark
BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today.
Entrepreneurs can take advantage of the Azure Services platform for their website hosting and storage needs. Microsoft recently announced the “new CloudApp()” contest – use the Azure Services Platform for hosting your .NET or PHP app, and you could be the lucky winner of a USD 5000* (please see website for official rules and guidelines).”
Reviews: Adobe Photoshop, Facebook, Flickr, PHP, Picasa
Tags: canvas, canvaspop, digital printing, facebook, flickr
Flickr Adds People Tagging With Opt-Out Controls
Oct 22nd
If you use Facebook, you’re surely familiar with the option to tag the people in your photos. The feature both identifies them to viewers of the pic and lets them know a photo that includes them has been posted on the site.
Today, venerable photo-sharing site Flickr added a people tagging option as well. You can tag people in photos in two ways: by typing a person’s name or email in the “People in this photo” section much like adding a regular text tag, or by drawing a bounding box on the person’s face, similar to adding a photo note.
You’ll get notifications in your Recent Activity stream when other members add you in a photo. You can also see all photos you’ve been tagged in from your Profile. You can also use Flickr’s Batch Organizer to do a lot of people tagging at once, handy for power users who have loads of pics in the back catalogue they’d like to add people to. Read the rest of this entry »
Concept Lens: Visualizing Conversations on Twitter and Flickr
Oct 21st
Concept Lens [flinklabs.com] is an online visualization that tracks the conversations occurring on Twitter and photos being posted on Flickr, for any event or topic of interest such as for conferences. Tweets are mapped on a virtual timeline, while users can add “Concept Lenses” to discover more detailed information for a specific time span (i.e. keywords or URL), adjust the time, or explore meaningful connections between related tweets.
Using Concept Lens, conference attendees are able to follow the conversations and track connections occurring in the “back channel” while the conference is in progress, and organizers and presenters can publish “notices” that will appear in the visualisation highlighting useful resources and housekeeping information.
20 Essential Resources for 4 of the Web’s Hottest Social APIs
Oct 14th
The API (Application Programming Interface) has been an essential c
omponent for creating applications that hook into or utilize web apps such as Twitter and Facebook. With it, developers have been able to create some amazing mashups and tools. Some of the most helpful and oft-used applications on the web wouldn’t be possible without APIs.
And that makes sense. Why would any developer want to reinvent the wheel when they could just utilize an API and build off of another tried and tested web application? This posts details 20 essential resources for developers getting started with each of four of the hottest social web APIs: Google Maps, Facebook / Facebook Connect, Twitter, and Flickr. What APIs are you making use of? Let us know in the comments. Read the rest of this entry »
