Comments on: Umundo makes mobile photo and video sharing easy

By: Radar Turns Mobile Pictures Into Conversation Starters

Radar Turns Mobile Pictures Into Conversation Starters — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:13:10 +0000

[...] of mobile apps that let you snap a picture and share it with your friends or the world—Zannel, Umundo, Mocospace, Pikki, MobyPicture, Yahoo Go—but one that does an especially good job at just sharing [...]

By: Dead2.0 » Does any App need Kicking?

Dead2.0 » Does any App need Kicking? — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:50:50 +0000

[...] Good luck, KickAppers. If all goes well, YouTube get shut down (extremely likely), Google Video continues to suck bigtime (almost a guarantee), and nobody can remember names like Ababzabz or umundo (did I get either right?). This positions you perfectly for the unbelievably big megatrend of crappy social video networking sites that are truly disruptive. Yay! [...]

By: e-Fuze mobile

e-Fuze mobile — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:20:57 +0000

Sharing Mobile Photos and Videos with Umundo…

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By: Dee’s-Planet! » Umundo Launches Mobile Video Capture and Embedding Application

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:36:08 +0000

[...] Umundo is a new application service — that allows users to share photos and video captured on their mobile phones without the need to set up an account — By entering a phone number or email, anyone can subscribe to a feed in a number of online readers or in iTunes. Code is also available to display video on MySpace pages. Oliver over at MobileCrunch wrote a positive review of Umundo last night and compares it to another system called Abazab. — The system is very easy to use and seems unique in its support for uploading both photos and video by phone. Unfortunately the ease of use comes at a serious cost in functionality. | [...]

By: Vadim

Vadim — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:01:27 +0000

Actually Umundo support Photocasts. The site just do not advertize this feature. Follow these complex and geeky steps to see photos from your mobile in iPhoto via Umundo:

1. Send photo from your mobile to video@umundo.com
2. Go to http://www.umundo.com and type your phone number
3. View page source and find in it URL of RSS feed: in is gonna be in HEAD section, under LINK element with type=”application/rss+xml”. Copy the URL into clipboard.
4. Start iPhoto (you need new one, from iLife 6, which supports Photocasting)
5. In File Meny select “Subscribe to Photocast”
6. Paste URL and press enter

Your are done! Now all photographs sent from your mobile phone to umundo will appear in your iPhoto automagically.

Enjoy!

I am sure pretty soon this process will be simplified to one click by diligent and hard working Umundo developers (us).

Vadim

By: Share Mobile Clips with Umundo - rev2.org

Share Mobile Clips with Umundo - rev2.org — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:36:03 +0000

[...] Although when you have such a transparent and easy-flowing system, there are of course a few problems that face you right in the eye. Marshall Kirkpatrick identifies that since there are no accounts, the ability to delete a video is in-existent (while it is possible to delete a whole feed; as in all video clips from a specific phone number). And in a world of cell-shame, where an inappropriate clip is taken then passed on, and so on, no delete function is an extremely bad thing that could cost this service. Also, the fact that there are no strings attached (no pun intended) to a specific phone number makes it hard to remember which number belongs to whom in the RSS feed. For example, is 0211394845 is Joan or John — only way to check it would be to go into your phonebook, etc. etc. — why even bother? [...]

By: Simran

Simran — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:47:52 +0000

PS: Digg this story here: Umundo makes mobile photo and video sharing easy

By: Simran

Simran — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:45:04 +0000

Marshall, I don’t know how easy it would be for them to offer photo feedss for iTunes. You can’t just subscribe to album art, iTunes won’t allow it. That’s why we have iPhoto’s Photostream subscriptions. I guess if they created a Photostream, people could subscribe to it in iPhoto on Mac OS X and put the same feed into a normal feed reader like Thunderbird on Windows. I’ve tried subscribing to Photostreams without iPhoto and it works fine, it’s just an advantage to have the program. But you’re totally right about iTunes having widespread usage. I just wonder how much content we can cram into one program.

Jon, interesting service you’ve got. I like the banner a lot.

By: Jon F

Jon F — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:05:47 +0000

Hit submit too soon without the API docs…The http://www.where.com API is available at http://www.where.com/api

By: Jon F

Jon F — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:01:35 +0000

Interesting twist. With the exposion of camera phones and video enabled phones there are going to be more and more sites in this space. I like the share capability to get the photos into other sites, that is definitely key. But they need to offer the user more control. Our where.com product is similar in that you can send pix and video to go@where without ever registering but if you do go to where.com and register you can then delete and manage photos more easily. Another twist with where that has been popular is we allow users to register a sub-domain (E.g. jon.where.com) and then let people send pix and video to jon@where.com. Those can be view on WHERE or pulled via XML so you can aggregate pix and video into a group from many phones.