Wow! Are you patenting this idea? I just thought of, like, one hundred uses for this same idea. So fast. Wow. Mind blown.
Is this a joke / commentary on patent law or are you genuinely enthused?
"Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
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Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#32Whoa! Just "bumped" into somebody else while testing this out. http://twitpic.com/98efxf
Gimmick?
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#33This is cool. Something about the UX felt like magic- maybe it was the instantaneous response and the way my phone vibrated.
Anyway, can the devs make this more shareable? I wanted to share on Facebook but the FB-markup link looks very nondescript (bad title, no description text, crappy icon). So, I'm not going to share it. Some Twitter / FB links on the webpage would be great.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#34What is Bump's business model? The app is free. These services are free.
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#35Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#36anyone have a video of how this works ?
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#37I don't get why this is a good idea (or how it works*). Anyone care to explain? Edit: I'm wondering how it works in a technical sense.
Accurate-enough (sub-second in my case) timing of events + physical proximity (both your browser and the app ask for your location) = a near guarantee that your browser session + your phone is a unique pair. It also asks for confirmation on both the phone and browser to pair the first time.
There's no real chance of this being man-in-the-middled since you have to confirm on both devices. And they're being intelligent about it - I just tried it with two laptops at once, and you get "someone's device" instead of the name of your iThing, and your iThing says "please try again" like this: http://cl.ly/1O33430M0i2c0i2T0z2U
Once you've approved, they have a browser + app pair of cookies for future pairings (not really exploitable, as it runs over https), which strengthens the single-pair guarantee to the point where it's about as good as it gets in any security model.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#38From what I have read it seems you need to have geolocation turned on in your browser and iphone.
Have I been hiding under a tinfoil hat for so long that I am completely out of touch with the world? Do most HN readers have these on by default?
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#39From what I have read it seems you need to have geolocation turned on in your browser and iphone. Have I been hiding under a tinfoil hat for so long that I am completely out of touch with the world? Do most HN readers have these on by default?
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Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#40This just very cool in a very nerdy sort of way. I kinda wish it was less gimmicky, on the other hand I assume bump uses the time stamps of the shake and the key down to figure out which two devices are trying to talk. I wonder what the threshold for collision is? Anyway, very cool and I could actually see a use for this, sending photos of whiteboards to colleagues that don't run Mac/have an iPhone. Would have to com…
Bump is known for their ingenious methods of relating lots of data to figure out which two phones were being bumped at the same time (there's a really cool answer on Quora about how they do it). I would assume this is their tech team figuring out how to apply the same techniques across two devices (browser/pc -> phone). I bet there is some really cool stuff at play here.