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From 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
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This could be a good way to quickly upload multiple screenshots to the computer.
Yeah. It does work, and it doesn't seem like a bad thing. The problem is that instant upload reduces the functionality on Android by a ton.
This 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.
Whoa! Just "bumped" into somebody else while testing this out. http://twitpic.com/98efxf Gimmick?
Generally very cool experience but I wonder how well the matching algorithm will scale though. You can't be getting all that many bits of uniqueness out of a single key press and a vague bit of browser location data right?
Keep in mind, all of the above exists already. Its just the elegant method of not having to put a PIN on both the phone + browser doesnt. Cool logon method.
https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios
https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android
Email me if you have any questions: tg@bu.mp
This 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…
It's also using HTML5 browser location to narrow that tap down to a fairly small area. Pretty neat idea.
Whoever designed this page: this is a clever idea, the ideal goal (I assume) is for it to be spread around ("hey, did you see this neat photo uploader thing?") in which case why doesn't it link me to the app for download? I don't have bump, I want to try this idea... so I have to work out what the site url is and then go and find the app myself. Why not a "don't have bump? download here!" link?
From 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?