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Pixelpipe supported services update 11-09

November 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

We released a big service update last night that included a number of new Pipes as well as significant enhancements to the Pixelpipe platform.

Since our client applications are automatically updated when we add new services these are all available now from any of our mobile and desktop applications.

Here’s a break down of the latest service updates and their capabilities.

New Pipes:

- Google Docs: Upload documents directly to your Google Docs account

- Google OCR: Upload a photo of a document, Google will convert the photo to text and place the document in your Google Docs account. Neat!

- docstoc: Online document storage & sharing

- CNN iReport: Upload photos, video and audio files directly to your iReport account for citizen journalist on the go.

- ScreenTweet: Send photos to Twitter

- Sendspace: Online file storage and sharing

- Skyrock: Popular Social Network out of France, supports photos, blogging and status updates

- Twicli: Media sharing for Twitter, supports photo, video & audio files

- TwitLens: Send photos to Twitter

-Twitsnaps: Send photos to Twitter

- Yahoo Status: Update your status across Yahoo networks with micro-blog style updates

- Yahoo Meme: Yahoo’s up and coming competitor to Twitter, supports inline photos and status/micro-blog posts

- Yammer: A private/group version of Twiiter, supports micro-blog posts, be careful with this one since your entire company might be reading your posts!

Removed Pipes:

- SMS services: We were having issues with reliable delivery of the messages so removed the SMS services for evaluation.

- Seesmic: The video services weren’t reliable enough

- Squarespace: Not enough users

- Qipit: They’re discontinuing their consumer offering

- Brightkite: Our API integration was broken in their last service update. We’re trying to get the issue resolved now and will get them back into the list of available services ASAP!

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Introducing Atom 1.0 publishing for Nokia Share Online

November 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

We’re rolling out support for Atom 1.0 publish protocol for Nokia Share Online users and wanted to invite you all to test out the integration in advance. While there are some advantages to 1.0 like 25% faster uploads & photo feeds (coming soon) it’s not without a cost since Nokia decided not to support Titles in the Share Online client. You can however still send photos, video, audio and files with a caption & tags however just without a title.

If you feel you must have titles with your uploads you can stick with our existing Atom 0.3 (Lifeblog) integration. If you have a need for speed and can do without the titles here’s a set of quick instructions to getting the new Atom 1.0 plug-in installed and configured.

1. Download the plug-in from http://tr.im/DXfO directly to your Nokia or to your desktop and transfer to your phone.

2. Open the Pixelpipe configuration from your phone’s Inbox to install to Share Online

3. Now open the Share Online application on your phone and select Pixelpipe

4. Select Yes if you have a Pixelpipe account otherwise choose No and create an account and return

5. Now it’s time to enter your account details to authenticate and link the plug-in to your PP account. For the Name you’ll use the email address associated with your account, the Password however is not your normal password and is unique application key that you can find at the bottom of this page http://m.pixelpipe.com/settings. We use the App Key instead of a password since the encryption utilized by Atom isn’t very strong and we want to protect your privacy, we’re not trying to be difficult .

6. Your plug-in will now be updated to use our Atom 1.0 endoint for uploads and will automatically start displaying photo feeds as soon as they’re available.

Let us know if you experience any issues while testing the new features Atom 1.0 features at beta@pixelpipe.com.

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Tagged: atom, nokia, publishing, share online

Enabling the Nokia N900 to the Social Web with Pixelpipe

October 17, 2009 · 3 Comments

Now that the mighty Nokia N900 is making it’s way out to the public we thought it’d be a good time to post a brief guide to getting the N900 connected to the Social Web via Pixelpipe. Here’s a quick overview of how to get your N900 publishing photos and video to over 115 services across the globe with the Pixelpipe plug-in.

Why is this awesome?

- We allow upload directly to the N900 camera and gallery applications to allow for effortless publishing.

- Background uploads! Once you’ve started an upload(s) it’ll go into a queue and deliver your media while your N900 is available and connected via an internet connection.

- Use N900’s Tag Cloud to send to specific services at the time of upload. Just include the service name with an @prefix or create your own custom groups with our Routing Tags feature.

To get started simply:

- Install the Pixelpipe plug-in (only 27kb) from the N900 App. manager

- Authenticate or create a new Pixelpipe account.

- Add any services you’d like from http://m.pixelpipe.com/destinations/add

- You can now configure your preferences for upload from the Sharing accounts settings on the N900

Pixelpipe settings

Title,Description & Tags

- Select your media and set title and description

- Use the Tag Clouds feature to set tags for your media with a touch or use our Routing Tags feature to send to specific destinations with our Routings Tags feature eg. @twitter, @facebook

set tags with a touch or use Routing Tags to send to destinations with Routings Tags eg. @twitter, @facebook

Your media uploads will now proceed in the background after you click the “Share” button as you continue to utilize your N900.

Please feel free to send any questions or feedback to nokia@pixelpipe.com.

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Tagged: maemo, n900, nokia, Pixelpipe, upload

We’re now supporting over 115 services at Pixelpipe!

October 4, 2009 · 5 Comments

Now that we’ve passed the 115 supported services mark I thought we’d take a moment to break them all out into categories since you may have missed a few. It’s hard to believe we launched into beta just a year ago with only 45 services and are now delivering photos, video, audio, text and even files to the most popular services across the globe. Stay tuned, we’ll be adding another 10 services next week.

Here’s the list of currently available services.

Social Networks:

Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Friendster, imeem, Vox, Bebo, Hyves, Xanga, blip.pl

Status/Micro-Blog:

Twitter, TwitVid, Brightkite, FriendFeed, TwitPic, kwippy, Plurk, identi.ca, plerb, youare, twitgoo, Jaiku, yfrog, pix.im, Google Talk, pic.im, TwitVid.io, Tweetphoto, koornk, TwitrPix, twitsnaps, Utterli, Chir.ps, Img.ly, LinkedIn, Plaxo, twaud.io

Photo/Video:

Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Nokia Ovi, MobileMe, Phanfare, Smugmug, Vimeo, ImageShack, pikeo, webshots, FotoTime, Zooomr, Fotki, Zoom.in, 23hq, Photoservice, 72 photos, ipernity, Shutterfly, photobox, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish, Zenfolio, Gallery Menalto, DropShots, SnapMyLife, tinypic, radar.net, Windows Live Spaces, pikchur, Viewbook, OurDoings

Video Only:

YouTube, blip.tv, 12seconds.tv, Viddler, Dailymotion, kewego, Seesmic, kyte.tv, Revver, Vimeo, Metacafe

Blogs:

Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, tumbler, LiveJournal, Atom, MetaWeblog, MovableType, Drupal, Squarespace

Gateways:

Posterous, ping.fm, Mobypicture

Online storage:

box.net, drop.io, Acrobat.com

Widget:

Picturtrail, imageloop

SMS:

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin Mobile

Other:

FTP, Email, qipit, Scribd, Evernote, Slideshare

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Pixelpipe for Android feature updates

October 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

We’ve released updates to Pixelpipe Pro & Lite applications to the Android Market with a number of new features and optimizations.

The big new feature is that we’ve added the ability to include geo-location along with status/micro-blog updates & blog updates to over 30 services, we’ve been doing this for sometime with post with photos however have introduced the feature for text only updates as well.

The Geo-Status feature works by enabling the “Geo On” button when posting to Pixelpipe. We’ll then include a link to a pi.pe page with a Google map for services that don’t yet support geo updates like Facebook & Blogger. For services like Friendfeed (& Twitter soon) that do support geo-tagging we will pass the coordinates to the services via APIs which will display a map along side the post. This feature is initially exposed on our new Android clients however will be rolled out to our integrations with Nokia and iPhone soon.

New features:

- Ability to include geo-location along with status/micro-blog updates, blog posts and even e-mails.

- You can now select your destinations on a per image, video or audio file basis. This is available from the Pixelpipe app by choosing “Upload to..” and from the “Share” menu found in the Gallery, Camera and most 3rd party applications

- Sign-up & Sign-in both are executed with-in the application. This provides better performance and a cleaner sign-up/sign-in flow.

- Now in simplified and traditional Chinese with distribution through NetDragon in China

Tips:

- Press the menu key in the application to switch between the photo, video & audio views

- Only the service that support the media type you’re uploading will appear in the “Upload to…” menu

Selecting the Upload to option

Now select the service(s) you'd like

Posting to a status/micro-blog service with the Geo-On option

Posting to a service with the Geo On

Chinese Status

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Tagged: android, Google, mobile, nokia, Picasa, status, Twitter, upload

Connect Nokia Contacts with Pixelpipe & post to your micro-blog & update your status as an instant message!

August 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

Have you ever wanted to update your status on Facebook or post to Twitter directly from your phone’s Instant message client? Now you can with the built in Contacts application on many Nokia Phones. In just a few easy steps you can add Pixelpipe as an IM contact and start posting to your favorite service(s) from the built-in Contacts application.

These are the steps we utilized to configure an N97, depending on the phone model your menus may look different however the basic steps should be very similar. Let’s get started!

1. If your phone doesn’t already have Ovi Contacts with Instant Message capability installed you can download the latest beta from http://tr.im/xdEG

2. Open Contacts and choose the Ovi menu (top middle) and then select “Invite Friends”

3. Change “Select service” to Other

4. Now enter pixelpipe@im.pixelpipe.com in the address field

5. Now you need to send Pixelpipe your application key so we can bind your IM account to your Pixelpipe account. You can your App key and instructions at http://pixelpipe.com/tools under the Nokia Contacts heading. You’ll need to sign-up for a free Pixelpipe account now if you haven’t done so yet.

6. You can now add your favorite mic0-blogs and status services from http://pixelpipe.com from the desktop or http://m.pixelpipe.com from your handset and start posting from Nokia Contacts.

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Pixelpipe wins Web Guild’s Startup Idol 2009

July 23, 2009 · 12 Comments

The competition was fierce however I’m pleased to announce that Pixelpipe has come out victorious in Web Guild’s first annual Startup Idol event. While I know our service and demo were good enough for the win I have to give it to James J and his freestyle rap that oh so accurately described our services to put us over the top. Checkout the lyrics below.

startup_idol

To the tune of of Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full

Thinkin’ of a master plan

Got a next gen smart phone in my hand

So I dig into my pocket, all my bandwidth spent

Installin’ Pixelpipe for just ninety nine cents

So I start my mission to get my photos sent

Without a lot of time or dead presidents

I need pics, in my twitter stream

Maybe customized with a landing page theme

I used to upload, again and again

With a timeout failure nine times in ten

But now I learned to pipe cos I’m righteous

I feel great, so maybe I might just

Share some videos too

3-G-high-rez flowin’ to my YouTube

Walkin’ up the street, talkin’ on Skype

With my Nokia phone running Pixelpipe

Now’s the test to see if I got pull

Win startup idol, and I’m paid in full

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Introducing Pixelpipe QuickPost for Nokia N97 & 5800

July 2, 2009 · 3 Comments

We’re putting our new QuickPost widget out for public beta and would like to invite you all to give it a try.

The widget aims to provide a simple and efficient method of updating your status or posting to blogs/micro-blogs while on the go. Just keep it running in the background, pop it open when you have something to say and post it to any of Pixelpipe’s 95 supported services. You can even use our Routing Tags feature to selectively post to specific services or groups (eg. @twitter, @facebook, @friends).

It’s available now can be downloaded from the Ovi Store. Please send feedback to nokia@pixelpipe.com.

Main View

Updating status

Post to Blog

Homescreen shortcut

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Tagged: mobile, nokia, status, Twitter

Pixelpipe, now with over 95 supported services

July 1, 2009 · 9 Comments

Why support more then 95 destination services now? Simply to provide the broadest range of services for you to publish your content. You don’t need to add every service and publish to all with one click however isn’t it nice to know you could.

Here’s a break down of our supported services into rough catagories to help you to find your favorites.

Supported services include:

Photo/Video: Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Nokia Ovi, MobileMe, Phanfare, Smugmug, vimeo, ImageShack, pikeo, webshots, FotoTime, Zooomr, Fotki, Zoom.in, 23hq, Photoservice.com, 72 photos, ipernity, Shutterfly, photobox, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish, Zenfolio, Gallery Menalto, DropShots, SnapMyLife, tinypic, radar.net, Windows Live Spaces, pikchur, Viewbook, OurDoings

Video: YouTube, blip.tv, 12seconds.tv, Viddler, Dailymotion, kewego, kyte.tv, Revver, Vimeo, Seesmic

Status/Micro-Blog: Twitter, TwitVid, brightkite, FriendFeed, TwitPic, kwippy, Rejaw, , Plurk, identi.ca, youare.com, plerb, twitgoo, yfrog, pix.im, Jaiku, Google Talk, pic.im, TwitVid.io, Tweetphoto, koornk, TwitrPix, Utterli

Social Networks: MySpace, Facebook, hi5, Friendster, imeem, Vox, Bebo, Hyves, Xanga

Blogs: Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, tumbler, LiveJournal, Atom, MetaWeblog, MovableType, Drupal, Squarespace

Gateways: Posterous, ping.fm, Mobypicture

Online storage: box.net, drop.io, Acrobat.com

Widget: Picturtrail, imageloop

Other: FTP, Email, qipit, Scribd, Evernote

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