This feature isn’t just for Twitter & can be utilized with our Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Yahoo Meme & even our foursquare integration to name a few. Anytime you post media to any of the supported services we’ll automatically upload to your chosen photo or video host & send out a shortened http://pi.pe link to your status/micro-blog service back to the media.

Here’s a rundown of the new features:

- Host your media on Flickr, Nokia Ovi, Picasa, Smugmug & YouTube
- Utilize this feature with 12 services including Twitter, Google Buzz, Friendfeed, foursquare,
Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Plurk, Status.net, Yahoo Meme & even status updates to Yahoo! & Google.
- Full HD playback of videos hosted on YouTube, Nokia Ovi & Flickr.
- Feature works with your existing Pipes, just go to My Pipes & add your media host(s).

To get started simply:

1. Add a Pipe to any of the supported media hosts including Flickr, Ovi, Picasa & YouTube

2. Add or edit your Pipe for any of the supported status & micro0blog services eg. Twitter, LinkedIn & select your host for photos & video.

3. Profit!

That’s it, now when you post we’ll take care of the upload & automatically link it back to your chosen host.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get your I Am T-Pain videos off of your iPhone & out to any Pixelpipe supported destination including Flickr, Facebook, Picasa & Vimeo.

1. Capture your video with I Am T-Pain & select Save from the upper right

2. Now select the Share button which will bring up a dialog to upload to YouTube

3. We don’t actually want to upload to YouTube so put anything in as the username & password (eg User: abcd Pass: 1234)

4. This will fail with an “Invalid Credentials” error however also save the video into the Camera Roll where we can access

5. Exit I Am T-Pain, if you want to trim the video (including removing their promo trailer) you can go to the Photos app & edit the in & out points like any other video captured on your iPhone.

6. Now open Pixelpipe, you should see your video at the top of the media view. Press the blue arrow on the right to add a Title, Description & Tags & then upload to any services you’d authenticated with Pixelpipe. (tip: Adding the services at your PC is easier then your tiny petite iPhone)

7. Now you can share your creation most anywhere you’d like, enjoy!

Pixelpipe works together with Photoshop by leveraging the editing capabilities of PS seamlessly with-in our application.  With Photoshop for Android you can perform a variety of edits & enhancements including crop, rotate & color/contrast adjustment to name a few, when you’ve completed editing we automatically load the new image back to Pixelpipe for uploading to the destination(s) of your choice.

Best of all it’s free, easy & all happens in just a few clicks. Here’s an example

1. Select the image by touching the pre-view or caption

2. Choose “Edit image” from the list

3. The image is now loaded into Photoshop & ready for editing or enhancemnets

4. When you’re done just save the image (green arrow pointing down in lower right) & we’ll take you back to the Pixelpipe application with your new image ready for upload.

What were we doing wrong? Simply scanning the contents of the DCIM directory to create a list of the photos & video. This provided our users with the capability to quickly multi-select any media from their photo gallery for upload instead of the one at a time functionality provided with-in the official API.

What makes this most unfortunate though is the fact it was another developer that complained about the functionality we were providing outside the official API, Apple was forced to react to the complaint & remove our application.

In Apple’s defense I have to say they did provide us with a week to update our application before removal from the store. Unfortunately the requested changes were so extensive that we were not able to complete the work in the time allowed. We have an update in the works & will be resubmitting next week for approval. Apple has offered to expedite the testing which was cool as well.

While we’re huge Apple fans at Pixelpipe I have to say the restrictions put on developers is a real concern. If developers are able to innovate & provide a better user experience with-in the bounds of an official OS release without harming the user then what’s the problem?

After working in mobile for over a decade, I have to credit Apple for “changing everything” & allow developers a real opportunity to distribute apps outside of the carriers garden. I only hope they will learn by Nokia & Google’s example and allow developers to innovate to provide a better user experience without having to hack or jailbreak the OS.

This is simply a notification to our users why they will not be able to find Pixelpipe in the iPhone store for the time being. We’ll look forward to announcing our return soon enough & bringing some additional features to our iPhone user base with our next release.

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Update: We’re back in the iPhone App Store as Pixelpipe HD & better then ever! We now support background uploads & HD video uploads directly from the iPhone.

Better yet for Android users we’re now allowing you to check-in to Foursquare venues directly from our application at the time of upload. Just use the “Share to” feature & select Foursquare as the venue, we’ll automatically pull up a list of venues in the area. It’s no problem if your venue isn’t found, just use the handy search list to expand the list of choices in the area. This feature is available now in Pixelpipe 2.0.3 and above for Android, and coming soon to other supported mobile platforms.

While we’re big fans of Foursquare here at Pixelpipe we’ve always thought the text only experience was a bit limiting. We’re excited to help you to share your experiences with your followers with links to media and direct check-ins from Android. Now it’s your turn, let’s see what you create.

Here’s an overview of the new features:

For our iPhone, Palm Pre & Nokia users you’ll still be able to shout out to their friends with media however you will not be able to check-in at this time. This functionality is similar to a few other apps that are offering photo links in shouts however expands the functionality to support video, audio & even files in the post.

Enjoy!

- Team Pixelpipe

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.

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.

Existing Pixelpipe users simply need to choose “Update service” from the Share Online options menu to download and install the update and start using the new features. If you are a new Pixelpipe user you can create your free Pixelpipe account and install Pixelpipe for Share Online from http://m.pixelpipe.com/nokia.

Here’s a few images of the new features in action.

Choose your desired Pixelpipe account for upload

We'll display a list of your Pipes, select an individual service for upload or simply choose your predefined default

You can now set your (optional) Title, Description and tags for the upload. You'll notice that this image is going to my Picasa Pipe

Posted in features Tagged: nokia, S60, share online ]]> http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/10/27/select-service-at-the-time-of-upload-pre-view-for-nokia-share-online/feed/ 22 pixelpipe choose_account select_pipes edit_details http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/10/17/enabling-the-nokia-n900-to-the-social-web-with-pixelpipe/ http://blog.pixelpipe.com/2009/10/17/enabling-the-nokia-n900-to-the-social-web-with-pixelpipe/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:40:49 +0000 pixelbrett http://blog.pixelpipe.com/?p=518 Continue reading →]]> 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

- 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

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.

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