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"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
#42I have been waiting all this time for Bump to be useful. It is finally useful, and I am happy.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#43Since the topic has come up, one way to reduce collisions with all geolocation turned off would be to request the user tap a certain key (or even two keys in succession) with the phone instead of just the space bar.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#44This 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.
Is this it?
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#45They should have put a css transition in there so that the photo 'falls out' of the top of the screen when loading
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#46From 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?
Firefox gives me a prompt like [1] on every site that uses HTML5 Geolocation APIs. My iPhone and Windows Phone do the same.
[1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9061771/Screenshots/yebr_5sj_2ik.png
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#47From 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?
I just tried with geolocation on my phone, and off in my browser, and it worked perfectly.
I tend to pick and choose on an app-by-app basis.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#48I have been waiting all this time for Bump to be useful. It is finally useful, and I am happy.
Had bump on my phone for nearly three years now. Have used it exactly three times. This time being the third one. It was impressive, and I'll likely show someone this tomorrow.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#49It just works.. It's been good to seeing Bump innovate again over the past few months.
Heh--wait 'till you see what we've got up next. :-)
And, of course, we're hiring. Come help us do this crazy stuff. Email me at jamie@bu.mp
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#50This is a gimmick. On the other hand the whole app is a workaround for the neutered iPhone communication stack. Uploading something to a server just to share it with someone standing near you is ridiculous.
I walk into a room full of computers... Windows, Linux, Mac, iPads, Android Tablets. I have a device in my hand that has photos I just took. In what world is transferring those photos to a specific other device in that room easy?
Sure, I can set up MY home computer to automatically pull pics from my phone, but I want to put it on Bob from work's computer... or the boss' iPad.
I would turn to email or dropbox before, but at first glance, this is a pretty damn elegant solution.