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It’s taken them longer than expected, but hot on the heels of their Eye-Fi Pro X2 WiFi-enabled SDHC memory card comes the general release of Eye-Fi Center. Announced back at CES 2010 in January, the new app supplants the current web-app for management of one or more Eye-Fi cards together with adding in new media sharing functionality.
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Microsoft Project Pink getting imminent Verizon launch? [Updated]
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Mar 4th 2010 No Comments
Microsoft’s oft-rumored Project Pink consumer cellphone platform has seemingly had another shot of credibility in the arm today, with Gizmodo claiming to have been sent a stack of promotional materials tipping a near launch. As well as reusing the same graphic of the so-called Turtle phone as we saw leaked last year, they also confirm Verizon as the carrier and position the handset as a social media-centric messaging device.
[Update: New tipsters have apparently confirmed that both the Turtle and the Pure (aka the Sharp PB10ZU and the PB20ZU) will be available, and are likely to launch in late April 2010. The production names are still not finalized, but the UI shares some of Windows Phone 7's appearance along with "some sort of UI skin/more of a social-networking edge".]
Buzz-kill
By Michael Gartenberg on Wednesday, Feb 24th 2010 1 CommentRecently Google entered the world of social media with their own service called Buzz. Buzz put Google directly in the real-time and social spaces, combined with a strong mobile component. Their approach is tied directly into Gmail on the desktop with a mobile website, and integration into various flavors of Google Maps. It would seem like a no-brainer and a success. Except I stopped using it almost immediately. Here’s why.
Google Buzz takes sharing realtime [Updated: Video]
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Feb 9th 2010 No CommentsGoogle have announced a new product that integrates with their Gmail email service. Google Buzz builds upon Gmail’s messaging, IM and in-browser video chat, and focuses on in-Gmail sharing with other users. There are also dedicated Google Buzz buzz.google.com pages for iPhone and Android, together with new versions of Google Maps – with Buzz integration – for Android, S60 and Windows Mobile handsets.
Video demos after the cut
Samsung Shark S5350, Shark 2 S5550 and Shark 3 S3550 social networking phones debut
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 14th 2010 No CommentsSamsung have unveiled their latest range, the Samsung Shark series, and they’re taking on entry-level social networking. Three devices will be initially available – the candybar Samsung Shark S5350 and two sliders, the Shark 2 S5550 and Shark 3 S3550 – each with shortcuts to Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and other popular social networks on their homescreen. Meanwhile the Samsung Communities app allows for easier uploading of photos and videos to (together with on-device browsing of) Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket and YouTube.
Nokia Messaging Beta 2 launched: Twitter added, fuller Facebook [Video]
By Chris Davies on Monday, Dec 14th 2009 No Comments
Nokia have announced the second beta of Nokia Messaging for Social Networks, and they’re now including Twitter support together with greater Facebook integration. The app is aimed at Nokia’s N97, N97 mini and 5800 handsets, and the device’s own communication – SMS and calls – are tied into individual profiles.
As well as photo uploading – complete with GPS geotagging – there’s video uploading to Facebook too. You can also add a Facebook calendar event to your handset’s calendar with one tap, and there’s no full profile support so you can see other users’ walls and photo galleries, and comment on them.
R3 Media launches eGether: our collaborative media network
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 8th 2009 No CommentsA lot of the people reading SlashGear – whether you’re a consumer, a member of the press, an analyst or a PR pro – will have various social network accounts that they use to keep updated with the latest and greatest in the tech world. You may also have realised, like the team behind SlashGear did, that none of the off-the-shelf tools such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn offer the perfect fit for sharing that sort of information, promoting projects or collaborating on new work. Today, we’re excited to announce the public beta of eGether, our new collaborative portal that mixes the best of the current social networks.
Video overview after the cut
Social networking and the mobile context
By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 1 CommentThere’s a growing call to deliver desktop experiences on mobile devices, and in general that’s a good thing. I don’t want to be limited to cut-down, plain-text “mobile” versions of websites when I have a large smartphone display and speedy 3G connection that could readily handle the full version, and the push for full-HTML browsers (and things like Flash support) has already trickled down from a must-have on smartphones to a common feature-phone element. What’s lagging behind, it seems, is an understanding of how mobile device use differs from desktop use, and nowhere is that more evident than in social networking integration. Several devices promise to bring your online social life to the screen that’s always with you, but the experience is patchy at best.
Nokia 6700 Slide and 7230 budget cameraphones outed
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 24th 2009 No CommentsNokia have outed two new budget sliders with a strong emphasis on media sharing, the Nokia 6700 Slide and the Nokia 7230. The 6700 Slide packs a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, together with onboard editing software, while the 7230 gets a more modest 3.2-megapixel camera.
Pogoplug updated: Twitter & Facebook integration, more USB ports
By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 20th 2009 No CommentsPogoplug have announced their second-generation device, and it aims to build on the usability of the original multimedia sharing brick. As well as a new hardware design, with four USB 2.0 ports versus the first-gen model’s single port, there’s also new software with better integration with social media and online galleries such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The core concept, however, remains the same: a sixty-second setup, basically amounting to plugging in at least one hard-drive, an ethernet connection and power, and registering the Pogoplug serial number to a free account online.
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