If you’re not yet familiar with Pixelpipe then here’s a few advantages of connecting the two services:

-Post to about 100 additional services then provided by Eye-Fi alone. Our global offering of destinations range from Blogger, Twitter & Email to Kodak’s new Pulse digital picture frames. You can see a complete list at http://pixelpipe.com/capabilities.

- Send to multiple services at the same time. Would you like to upload to Flickr, Smugmug, Facebook, Picasa, Tumblr, WordPress & Evernote… all at the same time? Not a problem.

- Setup and configuration of a Pixelpipe account is free, easy & enables publishing from a wide variety of desktop and mobile applications.

At this point we’re not a default service option for Eye-Fi so you’ll need to configure Eye-Fi to take advantage of our Gallery API input for Eye-Fi uploads. Here’s a few steps you’ll to perform to get your Eye-Fi set up for Pixelpipe publishing. The Eye-Fi team said they’d offer us as a dedicated service if we’re popular however for now you’ll need to configure us as a Gallery service.

To get started create a Pixelpipe account if you don’t already have one and then follow these simple instructions.

1. Open the Eye-Fi Manager & select ‘Settings’ from the top menu

2. Now select ‘change’ web sharing from Photo Destinations & select ‘Add photo service’

3. Select ‘Gallery’ from the selection and enter the following values

Username: your Pixelpipe username

Password: your Pixelpipe password

URL: http://pixelpipe.com/services/gallery/main.php

4. Now select ‘Show advanced options’ and enter the following values

Account title: Pixelpipe

Album name: Custom text

Uses photo creation date: 1

That’s it, now when you upload to Gallery from your Eye-Fi your uploads will be routed via Pixelpipe to your destinations of choice.
If you have any questions or issues you can reach us at http://getsatisfaction.com/pixelpipe. If you like the combination of services please let the Eye-Fi team know so they can add us as a dedicated service, you can reach them on Twitter as @eyeficard.

Happy Eye-Fi Uploading!

-Team Pixelpipe

Getting started publishing to your Buzz feed from any of our +20 supported applications is easy, the hard part is just figuring out the right one(s) to include in your Buzz. Here’s a breakdown of the applications that can be added as a “Connected site” and our capabilities with the service and Buzz.

Twitter: When linking your Twitter account to Buzz and posting through Pixelpipe you’ll get the Tweet and a shortened link back to a http://pi.pe/ page if there is any extended text & media (photo, video, audio, file) as well as a Google Map when geo-location is included in the post in your feed.

Blogger: Posting to Blogger through Pixelpipe results in a great experience, you can make text only posts from any of our supported applications as well as media that will be displayed in the Buzz feed.

GTalk: Posting to our GTalk Pipe will update your status & include a pi.pe link to any media with a map if geo is enabled. The only thing to watch out for is that the post does not persist and will change when you update your status.

Picasa: Provides the Title & description as well as an embedded video or photos in your Buzz feed

Flickr: Provides the Title & description as well as an embedded video or photos in your Buzz feed

YouTube: Provides the Title & description as well as an embedded video in your Buzz feed

After selecting the service(s) you’d like to include just follow the instructions under connected sites in your Buzz dialog to configure the specifics.

While we can’t wait for a direct integration with Buzz, we’re happy with the launch capabilities and thrilled with the prospects Buzz will provide.

Happy Buzzing!

The big advantage of posting through Pixelpipe is that you can now post to over 25 services at the same time you update your Twitter status. For example you could setup your Facebook, MySpace & Yahoo! Meme accounts with Pixelpipe & update all when you post to Twitter. You can even update your blog from your Twitter client (see tips).

Setup is similar for each app however here are the specifics to get Mauku on the Nokia N900 setup and plugged-in.

1. Open Mauku select the blue arrow on the top menu & choose “Publishers”
2. Select “New” & then “Advanced”
3. Set Pixelpipe as the name and Twiiter as the provider & then “OK”
4. Set the URL to http://api.pixelpipe.com/services/twitter/ and the Password & Login to your Twitter credentials

5. Now click on the blurry area on top to return to the Mauku, if you set things up you’ll see your Twitter feed in the Overview.

Now everytime you post we’ll route the post through Pixelpipe enabling you to post to multiple services at the same time.

Tips:

- We’ll create a Pixelpipe if you don’t have one with these credentials, you can log-in and add services or change your settings at pixelpipe.com or m.pixelpipe.com for mobile users.

- You can use Routing Tags to override your default services and post to specific services or groups. For example including @facebook,@plurk,@jaiku in the body would send the post to the three mentioned services however not to Twitter (we’ll strip out the tags). More on Routing Tags can be found on our blog.

- By default a blog service wouldn’t accept a status update however you can override the behavior by including the routing tag for the service eg. @wordpress,@blogger,@twitter would send the post to both blogs & Twitter.

- You can create groups by giving the same Routing Tag to multiple services and force routing with just one tag

- One click publishing from the camera: This feature eliminates the hassle of having to open up a 3rd party application for uploading after the point of capture. The user shoots a picture with the phone’s built-in camera application, after the image is captured we pop up a dialog that allows the user to add Title, Caption & Tags and upload in the background. Users can even select from a list of services in a GUI and click on the services they’d like to upload to in this dialog. Imagine taking a picture and sending it to Picasa, Twitter & Facebook at the same time in a few seconds to get an idea of how the feature will be used.

- Automatic publishing: This feature eliminates the dialog in the previous feature and automatically publishes every photo captured in the background. This feature could be useful for users that are publishing a lifestream or even automatic backups of images to our supported online storage services like Evernote, Acrobat.com or Box, even sending to their personal FTP server is possible. The feature is also complimentary for Twitter users with our new time based grouping for Twitter posts we recently introduced. Imagine setting a 24 hour delay while on vacation and having all of your images automatically uploaded to be published at the end of the day as one Tweet to get an idea of usage. You can read more about this feature at Automatically-grouped-media-for-twitter-posts/

Here’s a brief demo of these two features in action Click Here

The update supports all Android phones from the old G1 to the latest Motorola Droid & Nexus One, all phones with and OS level above 1.5 (cupcake) can take advantage of these features. We’ll also be updating our single service applications for Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, TinyPic, Twitter & Yahoo Meme throughout the day.

Please checkout the clients and let us know what you think!

Each Pixelpipe pi.pe page can contain a combination of photos, video, audio & even files, the contents of the uploads are posted with the oldest at the top so your viewers can see your story in the order you posted. A good example of usage would be a vacation where you’re posting photos & videos with a 24 hour delay for grouping before we post a single Tweet to your followers. A more typical example would be a few posts with our default 5 min delay as you’ll find in this example from my lunch at Bento415 yesterday http://pi.pe/-wtj94p.

Here’s an example of a pi.pe page demonstrating the media uploaded, geo-location and our new previous uploads stream view (on the right). One item to note is that the previous uploads view is specific to this Pixelpipe service and will only contain media you’ve uploaded to this specific Twitter Pipe. What this means is that your family pictures uploaded to Kodak for example will not be viewable in this stream, only the pictures you’ve previously uploaded to this Twitter Pipe.

These are the steps we utilized to add Pixelpipe as a buddy to the Google Talk, Jabber or Ovi messaging services, you can use the built-in IM client or a 3rd party application like Pidgin if you prefer. Let’s get started!

1. Open the Contacts application on your N900 and create a new contact called Pixelpipe, you’ll then need to select “add field” and scroll down and select the type of IM service you’re utilizing such as Google Talk or Ovi.

2. In the new service field enter pixelpipe@im.pixelpipe.com as the address and save.

3. Now open the new Pixelpipe contact and select the IM service option from the Contacts or Conversations applications.

4. You now you need to send Pixelpipe a message with your application key so we can bind your IM address to your Pixelpipe account. You can find your Application key and specific instructions at http://pixelpipe.com/tools under the Instant Messaging heading. Note: You’ll need to sign-in to see your application key & the format to send is “verify-application_key“

6. You can now add your favorite mico-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 & Conversations on your N900.

7. Enjoy!

Posted in features Tagged: n900, nokia ]]> http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/12/28/posting-to-status-updates-and-blog-posts-from-your-n900-instant-messaging-client-via-pixelpipe/feed/ 1 pixelpipe http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/11/22/whats-new-in-pixelpipe-1-5-for-iphone/ http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/11/22/whats-new-in-pixelpipe-1-5-for-iphone/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:58:04 +0000 pixelbrett http://blog.pixelpipe.com/?p=569 ]]> After over a year in the iPhone App Store and millions of your photo & video uploads we’ve learned a few things along the way about what you love & need from our iPhone client. We’ve been improving along the way however our latest 1.5 release should answer the majority of your unanswered desires.

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in Pixelpipe 1.5 for iPhone

1. Fast startups: We’re now storing all of your media information in a small local database and only scan for changes on launch. You can now configure a quantity (25, 50, 100 or 200) of items to be pre-loaded in Settings as well which provides huge performance gains for users with large collections.

2. Tag caching: As you add new tags to your media we now cache the new tags and make them available to you for future use (just swipe to delete). You can simply select the “Tags” button to load up a list of your previous tags and select them with just a touch. Tip: Enter the Routing Tags for your favorite services to override your defaults eg. @picasa,@meme would only upload to Google Picasa and Yahoo Meme (when configured). (The tag cache feature is highlighted in yellow as you may have guessed).

3. Landscape view: We knew it’d be useful to allow landscape view in our Status & Blog views for quicker text entry however have extended the feature throughout the application. You can now utilize both portrait & landscape views throughout the application.

4. Video capture & Edit: Capturing from the Camera view now allows for capture of both photos & video, video user can even set the in-point at the time of capture.

There’s more features & fixes however we know it’s more fun to find the feature on your own. Enjoy!

To use utilize the feature you’ll need to first enable the feature in your Twitter settings & then just enable the “Geo On” button when making a Tweet from inside any of our supported Android applications. You’ll only be able to view the location in a few services at the moment however we expect that to quickly change. More details about the new feature can be found on the Twitter blog with details about the supported services for viewing can be found at http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/think-globally-tweet-locally.html.

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!

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.