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Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

playerx — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:46:45 -0000

Have the Eye-Fi tether to your personal access point WiFi, and configure the web-upload feature. Or have it dump to an FTP.

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:07:17 -0000

The key thing is the UI for selecting which pictures to upload. That's why I
explained it the way I did. Uploading only happens on a user action. And to
make it simple, it has to be part of the camera, not an add-on like Eye-Fi.

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

_Mark_ — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:03:35 -0000

Samsung announced one of these earlier this year, and looking at engadget another one just hit the FCC; "the Instant Upload feature enables users to upload their shots to Facebook, Flickr, Photobox or Picasa, and for those who prefer to capture motion clips, it'll also shoot your videos to YouTube when a hotspot is found" http://www.engadget.com/200... and earlier http://www.engadget.com/200...

It's an open question if that'll be more usable than the EyeFi. (The Smart Face recognition where it keeps track of up to twenty different *people* is interesting too, though...)

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:34:52 -0000

I guess they didn't have that feature when I got mine.

I tried it for one day and hated it.

Maybe they should have waited to release the product until they had that
feature.

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Berend — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:31:30 -0000

"The whole point of digital photography relative to the old way is that I
take lots of pictures and then decide which ones to keep."

Eye-Fi gives you control over which photos leave your camera altogether or letting all photos leave the camera, but marking which ones you'd like transferred automatically to an online site:

http://www.eye.fi/blog/cont...
http://www.eye.fi/blog/sele...

Happy holidays!

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Dara Bell — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:52:03 -0000

Reading the posts belw it occurs to me the camera is those on phones. If Twitter is as Clay Sharkey describes internet SMS then this is photomessaging, immediately obsulute for Driond ad IPhone users,.

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Dara Bell — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:48:40 -0000

This is novel idea, which wish I had thought of, it was either Twitter TV or this.

This is on reflection better a creative business tool, maybe it will encourage business people to be more do morecreative work, I was just in dearth of Facebook busines groups with terrible DM marketing pictures with little GIFS. It looked like children could have drawn them, a photo tells a story and a thousand keywords.

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Tony Vota — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:28:31 -0000

Regarding Eye-Fi, there are settings to only enable uploading of photos you select. This is done by using the cameras feature to "lock" photos and prevent them from accidental deletion. With that setting enabled only the protected photos get uploaded.
Tony

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Rex Hammock — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:01:48 -0000

Like I said, Eye-fi sucks and I've never even heard of it. ; ) (Sign me up for one of those Dave cameras)

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Doug S — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:00:43 -0000

Just recently I used the PicPosterous iPhone app at Disneyland... took pictures using the iPhone, stored them in the Disneyland folder and they uploaded to the Posterous Gallery, whenver I wasn't taking pictures.. you delete a photo from the gallery on the phone and it deletes from the online gallery... and of course Posterous posts to Flickr, twitter, FB and more... that was the closest I've come to hassle free photos while on a trip... this would be great if it was on a camera that worked on a 3g network... I don't know if PicPosterous is available on other devices...

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

dave — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:24:28 -0000

I didn't even like the way it worked with my WiFi at home.

The whole point of digital photography relative to the old way is that I
take lots of pictures and then decide which ones to keep.

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Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Rex Hammock — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:51:22 -0000

I know the Eye-Fi doesn't work like you described, but there is a use of it that sorta comes close if hacked in a certain way. One model of the Eye-fi allows you to pay $9.99 a year for access to 10,000 Wayport locations (not Amazon Whispernet, admitted). (http://www.eye.fi/how-it-wo... You can program the card to upload any photo taken at home (if she has wifi) or within range of a Wayport location automatically (she'll just point and snap) to Flickr or one of 32 other services, most of which have RSS and some even have Twitter alerting built in (Flickr has that option). Obviously, this is an ugly hack -- but until the Twitter Camera by Dave is created, it could provide a point and click experience for you mom that takes the photo, uploads to a sharing service and alerts Twitter.

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Doug Kersten — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:46:22 -0000

Check out Eye-Fi. Might help your mom a lot! http://www.eye.fi/

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Stormchild — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:46:19 -0000

Winner!

Worst Idea of the Year, 2009

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

AndrewBurton — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:31:44 -0000

Why can't the Netbook be a Twitter camera? It has a camera, connectivity, and...well, isn't that all a Twittercam needs?

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

David Van Couvering — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:44:58 -0000

This sounds awfully like iPhone/Android Twitter apps that let you post pictures. At some point there will be no distinction between consumer-grade cameras and smart phones, that's my guess.

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Stefan Constantinescu — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:33:06 -0000

You need to contact Glenn Lurie, President of Emerging Devices for AT&T Mobility. I wrote a blog post about this sort of thing as a guest author for the research firm Vision Mobile: http://www.visionmobile.com...

Short summary: the most revolutionary thing about the Kindle was that it was the first device to come bundled with connectivity. As operators look to increase their revenues they should start business units that are dedicated to servicing corporations who want to sell products connect to the network out of the box.

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Zero Distraction — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:29:24 -0000

As phones get better cameras, I think the majority of people uploading photos won't have a standalone. Still a good idea for point & shoots though.

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Jeff Graves — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:44:47 -0000

Nice...one of those ideas that is so simple yet powerful that I'm thinking "how come I didn't come up with that?" I think you're on to something...the content that we all create becomes more and more powerful and useful!

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Vince Outlaw — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:25:10 -0000

Seems like we're pretty close to this with the Droid's 'Share' feature integrated with posting apps like TwiRoid and Email, used after taking and viewing a picture.

How does your vision differ from this other than some additional streamlining (removing some extra clicks and touches)?

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blankbaby — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:50:56 -0000

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a spate of WiFi enabled cameras at CES this year. Sony has one that includes free access to AT&T hotspots and allows you to upload pics and videos to a variety of sites (though I don't think Twitter or Flickr are included):

http://www.sonystyle.com/we...

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

Mark Essel — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:14:53 -0000

Hahahaha, epic

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mkelley — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:50:55 -0000

You know Dave we're almost there, the HTC Eris version of the Droid can do this now. Use the camera and it will allow you to upload to Flickr or using the Twitter client, a few of the Twitpic-type services.

There is already an app for UStream to broadcast the live video too.

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tjgillies — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:47:59 -0000

http://twitter.com/tylergil...

Re: Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News)

kidmercury — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:32:54 -0000

twitter needs a business model first. you can only borrow money for so long, even the federal reserve can't do it forever.