June 17, 2008
Ok… I don’t care what this site is, their intro/overview video is f**king awesome, FLAT OUT! Moot.no, a site host to a “new way to share your awesome” via your mobile device, namely your phone, is an application for Windows (ugh! you devs kill me sometimes with this non-compatability stuff - and that’s coming from a Windows guy), anyway…
Windows Mobile people? Here’s your chance to have something no one else’s got!
I tossed the install onto my laptop, just to see what happened, and it’s a good way to share stuff quickly if you have multiple Windows devices, like a laptop, desktop & phone, you’re on the go, have enough friends in the same platform set up, or close to it, and y’all can get down with a new social network. I’ll personally stick with Pownce/Flickr etc for sharing random stuff, and Tumblr/Stumble for findings on the web.
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June 12, 2008
Of the 3+ months I’ve been on Qik.com, I’ve loved the service, enjoyed the site, and pretty much preached about it to the people of the Internets.
Now? There’s a new look wrapping Qik.com and a new fancy pants slogan, “See what happens”. You got that right! With events like the Stanley Cup, Mars Lander, and “The Lunchtime Show” *cough* broadcasting, you can’t not watch Qik.
For you WinMobile people, did you see?
We are excited to announce the invitation-only Alpha release for our initial set of Windows Mobile devices - Samsung BlackJack and Motorola Q. Qik for Windows Mobile brings the same rich, interactive experience of Qik optimized for the Windows Mobile platform. - Qik.com
For you iPhone people, did you see?
Not to be outdone by Flixwagon, who announced their own iPhone video streaming service this morning, Qik sent us a video demonstration of their own upcoming product for doing exactly the same thing - Mashable.com
Here’s something new and exciting… What’s this? A map tab??? HMMMMMmmmm… If I get to start GeoTagging my videos, I’m going to be MOST excited. I’m not much into GeoTagging (yet), but now that the N95 is a lot faster on GPS? I’m pretty much all over it.
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June 11, 2008
What do you get when you cross a GPS device and a webcam? GeoTagged Video - das right. Seero is an online resource that’s geared to be most awesome with it’s leet neatness of rad. That’s the technical term for GeoTagged goodness + Video stuff.
From their Help page:
Download the Seero GPS Installer - here
Connect your GPS device (bluetooth or what have you)
Open your Seero GPS app, enter your credentials
(A little advanced) Input the COM port that the GPS device uses
Click “Check for Live GPS” in the Live Broadcast Section
Agreed: This should be a little easier to set up… but, this is friggin cool as shit. You can actually wander (if you set this up right) while you’re hiking, carting around, being driven around, etc - broadcast (if you have an “anywhere” Internet connection) - and have it track your location on their site… leaving a snail trail of icons while you spew your video to their site!
Yea… that’s pretty f**king sweet!
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June 4, 2008
Ok… Third time’s the charm. I just happened to find 3 websites in a row that have the same goal, but in different delivery methods. Sociagami, in my mind, is the closest thing to “Teh Win” I’ve seen… This struck me as a surprise, since I was thinking this site was going to host aggregation for input and output to stuff, much like FriendFeed… but it’s quite the opposite.
Sociagami allows you to send messages, comments, update statuses, and share things to your friends on Facebook, Twitter and that MySpace site people need to forget about. The presentation is pretty slick, and though you can’t skin the application to be the colors you want, and even though it can’t connect to my Twitter account at the moment (API limitation I’m sure), it’s pretty damn awesome.
I hate MySpace, but people I know use that instead of email - which is now going to be “ok” with me, since I don’t have to actually ever see that site. Nice! Facebook, I’m so sick of Ninjas and Pirates trying to throw stuff at me via a spam-app, I rarely pay attention to that site as well… and have bypassed that now too. Twitter? Well, I like Twhirl, but hey - if I’m already in here checking my social network sites, and have something to say? Say it to them all. Handy.
Oh, and sorry, you 5.6% marketshare holding MAC users can only run this if you’re using Parallels or the like. It’s a windows app, asking for XP or greater… So, I’m going to just come out and say it:
Sociagami Developers, port this app to AIR. Thanks.
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Every now and then I pick sites back to back that are vaguely similar to one another, and then I’m torn to which ones more awesome than the other… Damn it!
Bubbles is an application that keeps you connected to your social networks (or anywhere, actually) via taskbar icons and/or desktop icons. I used it a bit for Facebook and Flickr, it seemed pretty straight forward…
Here’s my favorite part:
Remember how dragging a photo into Picasa imports that photo into an album? Think for a second what happens when you drag that photo into a browser… right, the browser shows you that photo. Bubbles allows web-sites to accept files that are dropped on them, so our example Flickr extension for Bubbles makes uploading new photos as easy as dragging them into the Flickr Bubble! - BubbleHQ :: Features
I’d like to see things like this is newer technologies like an AIR-based browser that has tabbing & notifications that are grouped by a single application, but, in all honesty - this is still pretty darned handy, if I do say so myself.
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