Written on 29th April 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Not only did Flickr member Norby slice up a photo into six squares but he even went so far as to figure out how to crop each photo to show correctly when spaced apart as they are! Genius.
via Gizmodo
Written on 22nd January 2009
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Last time I wrote about Mobypicture, I received some complaints the service wasn’t “revolutionary” enough. Maybe that’s because the service has been around for a couple a years and, despite an awful design, managed to grow a loyal user base. It just offers a simple and blazing fast way to upload your pics from a mobile phone.
Last week founder Mathys van Abbe launched the new design and an iPhone app. I’ve tested the latter just now and I’m pretty impressed by the usability and the fast results. After making a picture of the Mobypicture homepage and sending it to the service, I pressed refresh – and my picture was right there in the latest uploads.
That’s all there is to it: a well-designed iPhone app which makes sure you can share those Kodak-moments as soon as possible.
Written on 5th December 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
I’ve been a relatively long-time Mobypicture user. After registering at the site in December 2007, I’ve send more than 75 photos to the microblogging service. Although my recent adoption of Tweetdeck persuades me to use Twitpic sometimes, I still appreciate the mobile function of Mobypicture a lot. Also because of the Flickr and Wordpress integration.
The only hurdle to take is the sign-up at the horribly designed Mobypicture site (a new design is on its way). Founder Mathys van Abbe took that barrier away by offering a new and easy email feature. In a post titled Mobypicture <3 Twitter van Abbe notes:
Send an email or MMS containing a photo, a title (subject) and optional a text (body) to:
twitterusername.twitterpassword@mobypicture.com
(so for example: johndoe.jane@mobypicture.com)
Your photo will be published (see picture) and you’ll then receive a DM with instructions for sign-up, which you can also choose to ignore. This feature is particularly handy for those who don’t own an iPhone or a smart phone that supports a Twitter app. Happy photo emailing!
Written on 3rd November 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Isn’t it incredible? Today someone a guy named Garrett Ryan Smith uploaded the 3 billionth photo to Flickr. Not bad for a little photo sharing site that grew out of a Flash games project andofficially launched in 2004.
Congratulations Flickr!
An congratulations to us too as we happened to upload photo number 3.000.000.001!
I read the Flickr blog pretty soon after it was posted and am very quick when it comes to Photoshop and uploaded my photo within minutes after reading the Flickr blog so I’m pretty sure this is photo number 3.000.000.001:
Written on 18th May 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
When something happens in my life that I find noteworthy enough to share with family, friends, business relations and “weak ties”, I post it to Twitter. Sometimes words are not enough and I post a photo using Mobypicture. So my sharing needs are full-filled. Yet the majority of people lack this fulfillment, mostly because they don’t use Twitter. For those folks, Ian Kilpatrick has built BeenUp2. (Update: Layton Wedgeworth is also one of the site’s founding fathers.)
On BeenUp2, users can send photos of life’s special moments to their profile by using a phone, e-mail or an old-fashioned uploader. There’s also an iPhone app for all you hipsters out there. As soon as the pic is live, the “chit-chat” can begin as other people may post comments on your photo. Sounds familiar right? Twitter for visually-minded people?
There are some differences though. For example, when you’re an active Twitter user, your messages and photos just disappear in a dull older/ newer post archives. BeenUp2 however, creates a diary for those nostalgic moments. There’s also a geotag feature which makes it possible to browse around the globe. But to be honest with you, Flickr already offers these services. And when it comes down to the archives, there’s probably already a Twitter app for it (if not, I guess now there’ll be one pretty soon).
If somebody came up to me and asked where he could share special moments, I would tell him to adopt today’s standards and sign up for Twitter, which he should connect to Flickr by using a service like Mobypicture. Even though BeenUp2 is really easy to use, it’s just one service too many. The web is already cluttered enough. Like Lani from KillerStartups noted:
Will users grow tired of the same pic/video sharing/ social networking offers currently flooding the market?
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