Photoblogging with twitxr
February 17, 2008
Twitxr is like Twitter but with pictures and geolocalization. The idea is, you take a picture with your iPhone or other mobile device, you write something related to the picture and this picture gets posted on the Twitxr site for your followers to view.
The photo will also then be posted as a link into your twitter stream and onto your facebook account as well.
With a Jailbroken iPhone you can use the client, which can be easily installed through installer.app, you should find it under the networks tab.
They are currently working on other mobile platforms such as the Symbian and Android, and the API is public so anyone can develop a client.
Try it out for yourselves here
Put Facebook Faces in Outlook
January 15, 2008
OutSync is a Windows application that lets you syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
The benefit of OutSync is for Windows Mobile users. Updated contacts are automatically synced with Windows Mobile devices by Exchange server or ActiveSync. Thus new and fun photos appear during calls and other places where contacts are used.
Here is the Channel 10 Video with a 10 min demo, note you will need silverlight to view it.
Sync your Facebook contacts with Outlook (and Windows Mobile)
Plaxo to be bought?
January 3, 2008
peHUB are reporting that the Social networking site Plaxo have received an unsolicited acquisition offer of around $200 millon, and that they are seriously considering the approach.
peHub go on to say
The New York Times this morning reported that Plaxo had retained investment bank Revolution Partners to manage the process, but the source tells peHUB that no such agreement has been signed. “Plaxo has not yet hired a banker,” the source said. “But plenty of bankers have called Plaxo, saying they have interested buyers. It’s like a real estate broker telling you that a great house is about to come onto the market.”
One possible barrier to the sale could be Plaxo Pulse, a new social networking service that had moved the company far beyond its original mission of updating online address books. The current buyout offer does not seem to bake in the same growth potential for Pulse that Plaxo sees, so it may opt to wait six months to prove its effectiveness. Oh, and Jeff Nolan sarcastically suggests that Plaxo is actually worth $3.81 billion, based on the Facebook valuation.
On the flipside, of course, is the possibility that Pulse underperforms. If so, then this may be the best time for Plaxo to sell.
A Plaxo spokeswoman declined to comment.
This on the day that Robert Scoble was locked out of facebook for possibly using a new Plaxo application, although he said in one of the comments that it may have been a fellow blogger that told Facebook.
Fotowoosh Now Available on Facebook
December 9, 2007
Fotowoosh is the new technology for making a 2D photo into a 3D enviroment giving you the ability to fly around the photograph
How it works
Mathematically, it is completely impossible to reconstruct a 3D scene from a single image. And yet when we humans look at a photograph, we see not just a plane filled with color and texture, but the world behind the image. How do we do it?
We believe that this amazing ability of humans comes from years of experience of living in a highly structured world, in which most scenes consist of vertical objects resting on a ground plane. Our insight is that if we can just figure which parts of the image correspond to ground, vertical surfaces, and the sky, we can often construct a simple 3D model of the scene. Our approach is to learn the structure of the world and the appearance of geometric surfaces from a large set of training images. We can then apply that knowledge to new photographs. If we can determine where the vertical surfaces contact the ground in the image, we can recover the depth of those surfaces (up to a scale), giving us a 3D model.
To create the final result, we simply texture map from the original image onto the model.
Get the facebook app here
