Photoshop goes mobile: Not just Windows Mobile only.
Posted by Daniel Love | Aug 28, 2008
You may have seen the recent blog posts about Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile, specifically, the fact that you need a Windows Mobile device.
Well, they are wrong.
The plan is to use a service called ShoZu.
ShoZu is a free service, that works on around 300 handsets worldwide, that allows you to “connect your phone and your online life”.
You can interact with a lot of different sites, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, Blogger, and now Adobe Photoshop.com.
Using ShoZu you can upload photos, videos, read + reply to comments, add meta data, and it will even automatically geo-tags your photos.
Although ShoZu is a free service, you still may have to pay for the data you upload/download from your network provider, but luckily ShoZu can alter the resolution of your videos and pictures before you upload them.
It is currently unclear as to weather you will need to use the ShoZu application, or if you’ll get to use the Photoshop.com Mobile application, my bet is unfortunately on the ShoZu application.
As Richard Leggett stated eariler, Adobe could resolve this by using a technology similar to Project Capuchin. This would enable Photoshop.com Mobile on a lot more devices, without having to rely on a third party service such as ShoZu.
Yes, you are adding another potential point of failure due to the Java wrapper, which may be why Adobe haven’t done this.
So the chances are that your phone will actually be supported come September when this is released, in some form or another. Currently it looks as if the users who don’t get the Adobe branded client, will be forced to use ShoZu. But these users may actually be getting a more mature, feature rich application - albeit speculation as Adobe haven’t released much details about the functionality of Photoshop.com Mobile yet.
Read more about Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile
Read more about ShoZu
Read more about Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin
Quickie: 3D Cameras
Posted by Daniel Love | Aug 27, 2008
Basically, they take two images, one with the flash enabled and one without.
They compare the two images, and from that they can work out the depth of objects.
This allows them to create a displacement map.
See the demo video - watch from 00:40 onwards to see a demo of it in action.
Jumptap is to AT&T as Google is to Verizon
Posted by Daniel Love | Aug 27, 2008
The mobile search and advertising start-up Jumptap have gone through another round of investing, raising the total capital raised to over $70 million.
Jumptap now directly compete against Google, as each of the search providers have signed deals with America’s two giants, AT&T and Verizon respectfully.
Jumptap believes it has an advantage over Google when it comes to their search results.
Google’s results tend to swing more towards general surfing, and research, whereas Jumptap’s results are more “actionable” and “location based” results.
The result of this is, for example, a search on a typical product with Google, will bring up the manufactures home page, a loads of blogs and reviews.
Jumptap’s advantage lays in the fact that their results will, hopefully, contains shop links to places to purchase the product, rather than reviews and information.
With Google signing a deal to become the default search engine on Verizon, and Jumptap on AT&T, you can expect things to heat up quickly.
Will better, more targeted results prevail, or will the monolith brand turned verb stay on top?
New Microsoft Surface Tech Demos
Posted by Daniel Love | Aug 25, 2008
Luckly, we’ve been blessed with some new Tech Demos regarding the new Microsoft Surface product.
I’m really looking forward to this product, hopefully it can help multi-touch go retail, and eventually bring multi-touch into the home.
I know multi-touch has already gone commercial (iPhone etc), but I’d like to see multi-touch kiosks in retail stores too.
A few of the new demos posted on TechCrunch, aren’t impressive at all, except for the BMW demo.
In a basic form, you place a small toy car of the a specific BMW model you want to view on the Surface, and the car appears.
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Microsoft attempting sale of Razorfish, with a twist.
Posted by Daniel Love | Aug 25, 2008
I’ve heard a lot that Microsoft are trying to sell Razorfish, but the rumours have been reignited by a post on Advertising Age.
Apparently, Microsoft are trying to unload Razorfish, which is akin to the rumour I heard previously, but Microsoft want the 24/7 Open AdStream ad-serving tool on top of a cash sum of around $800 million.
WPP are interested in unloading the Open Adstream platform that they acquired from 24/7 Real Media in a $649 million deal, so it looks like this deal may have legs.