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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

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Post by jrockway »

j_col wrote: post #59
citricsquid wrote: post #8

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?

Yeah, clever viral marketing (which is clearly working as we're talking about it here). I was a bit suspicious that they wanted to captured my geo location on that page too.

Bump works by correlating the time the "bump" occurs and the location of the bumps. Of course, tracking your location is an added benefit for someone that might care about that sort of thing.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by rplnt »

armandososa wrote: post #52
dfc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a joke / commentary on patent law or are you genuinely enthused?

It's my genuine reaction. I really thought this is super cool and innovative.

I was about to write that there was an app for sharing between phones that used "bumping" but when I searched for the name... it's the same app :)

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by jrockway »

jaredsohn wrote: post #23
dfc wrote: post #5

If I have already selected the photos I want to upload on my phone why would I want to use another device to complete the process? NB: This is not trollfood and I am not a hater. I don't use an iphone so I may be missing something obvious.

This makes it easy to see what is on your iPhone on your computer. It lets you authenticate without having to enter a username/password (less typing!) or having credential information already saved on that computer (which is a typical case if using someone else's computer.)

Why not just show a QR code on the screen and have the phone scan that. If it's been taking pictures, it can take one more :)

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by jrockway »

kennywinker wrote: post #50
blub wrote: post #4

This 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,…

I log into my Google+ account and all the pictures on my phone are magically there.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by rplnt »

dfc wrote: post #5

If I have already selected the photos I want to upload on my phone why would I want to use another device to complete the process? NB: This is not trollfood and I am not a hater. I don't use an iphone so I may be missing something obvious.

My first thought as well. Then I was wondering why the site wanted my geo location. So the obvious thing we missed is that you just open the site, bump with the app (and press spacebar simultaneously to sync) and you see photos from your phone on your computer.

I don't see how is this better than, for example, storing your photos into some dropbox-like service, but it is certainly a neat idea.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by rplnt »

riffraff wrote: post #51
nickbarnwell wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

so do chrome and safari

And Opera and probably any other browser supporting geolocation.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by morsch »

Why is the Bump Android app 2.74 megabytes large? That seems excessive.

Huh, that doesn't seem to be a welcome comment. I'm not sure why. Bump doesn't strike me as an app that ought to require large media files. Does it contain any? If so, why? Is the binary itself that big? If so, why? Large dependencies? Either way, the size stopped me from checking it out: it takes up space on my device, it takes work to move it to the SD card and if it updates regularly that means more relatively large downloads.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by rplnt »

jrockway wrote: post #63
jaredsohn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This makes it easy to see what is on your iPhone on your computer. It lets you authenticate without having to enter a username/password (less typing!) or having credential information already saved on that computer (which is a typical case if using someone else's computer.)

Why not just show a QR code on the screen and have the phone scan that. If it's been taking pictures, it can take one more :)

This photo upload thingy is an extension to http://bu.mp/ , phone to phone sharing service/app which is much better use case for the "bump technology".

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by rplnt »

jamwt wrote: post #49
pazimzadeh wrote: post #2

It 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

Their job openings if anyone is interested (as I was):

http://bump.theresumator.com/apply/jobs/

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