Comments on: AOL Launches BlueString

By: BlueStringIsDead

BlueStringIsDead — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:14:08 +0000

It is dead now in the deadpool.

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By: Marie Periera

Marie Periera — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:04:20 +0000

http://www.vcasmo.com provide similar function to host your video, document, music and photo to create a dual-screen slide show.

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Berlind’s Testbed mobile edition — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:17:37 +0000

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By: BlueStringTeam

BlueStringTeam — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:45:40 +0000

@Teesh

Thanks for the feedback. We are working to fix this extended registration flow. It is currently not one of the product’s strengths.

As for the share functionality, you will *continually* see improvements and feature enhancements to this core functionality.

Please keep in mind this is an early Beta release, and we have lots of enhancements to work through!

@John Currin

BlueString is currently only available in English, but stay tuned for future availability in more languages. You were unable to register though?

By: مریم

مریم — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:37:59 +0000

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By: John Currin

John Currin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:05:22 +0000

I am teaching English in China and cannot register, is for US use only?

By: John McKinley

John McKinley — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:44:41 +0000

Props to Robert and the team in LA for launching a really nice, intuitive product! The whole group enhancement model is quite well done. Once people get to know about some of the sweet automatic upload capabilities from your PC (e.g., never having to remember to upload photos when you sync your camera), I think they’ll appreciate it even more. Also, thanks should go out to David for being such a staunch supporter of the effort.

By: A software developer

A software developer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:53:40 +0000

@shawhin

“The product manager deserves a phat cigar! way to go.”

Yes, we all know that it was the product manager who stayed late coding every night in order to have the demo ready in time.

We can forget about those pesky developers in the other hand. They are just replaceable commodities unable to produce anything valuable without the grand visions and detailed specifications of product managers and executives in general.

A software developer.

By: David

David — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:37:28 +0000

C’mon Teesh. You serious? A. Its a beta. B. Last 4 of your social for PW recovery is hardley a new concept. C. Reg is a pain everywhere especially giganic corp. View it for what it is. Its pretty slick for anybody and for AOL even that much more so.

By: techmine

techmine — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:36:30 +0000

Nice Nice..bring on the integration with the World (Flickr, FB, youtube etc etc).

By: Teesh

Teesh — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:11:29 +0000

ok me I’ll be far – you don’t *have* to leave the last four of your social, but it’s sure conveniently at the top of the list of “oops, I forgot my password” security questions.

Also, the extended registration blows, who wants to take that much time to register for another one of these things if it isn’t for work? The share functionality leaves a lot to be desired, and does anyone else see the potential for copyright issues cropping up left and right here?

By: shawhin

shawhin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:05:36 +0000

Great product and very clever idea. The product manager deserves a phat cigar!
way to go.

By: david

david — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:49:39 +0000

I just signed up because I wanted to see the flex application.

It’s a pretty good interface overall – you only need your mouse hand to operate it. The slideshow system is very simple and easy to figure out. It treats all media in the same way, too, so you can upload movies/images from the same place. Reminds me a lot of Slide.

However, I found the sharing interface confusing – wasn’t quite sure what to click on when the “Publish” tab was selected (you need to drag, THEN click to generate the sharing link). I noticed that it doesn’t handle animated gifs very well, but this may just be a limitation of flex.

Unfortunately, you need to go through 6-7 screens just to register if you are a non-AOL customer. One of the screens requires about 20 different bits of personal information from you – all compulsory. I wanted to see the app in action so I just entered fake info to get past it, but normally I wouldn’t bother with that crap.

By: nastia.golovina

nastia.golovina — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:40:25 +0000

It looks that a similar service http://www.wixi.com will also launch at tech40. There tagline is: all your media stored in one page . Interesting to compare ..

By: me

me — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:37:01 +0000

Um, Teesh, I understand your concern about giving your address, but I did NOT need to leave my SS#. Let’s not go exaggerating all over the place here and misleading people.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:33:57 +0000

Can you direct link with the images? like photobucket?

By: Teesh

Teesh — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:24:23 +0000

oh yeah, I totally want to give aol my address, birthday, and the last 4 of my SS#. That sounds like a brilliant idea. Maybe rethink the registration on that one?

By: Willie G

Willie G — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:17:02 +0000

Pretty cool .. was able to get registered and try it out smoothly. So far so good.

By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:14:25 +0000

.rb,

BlueString is a media aggregator which allows you to store, manage and share your photos, music and video. Isn’t StoryBlender just a collaborative video editor?

By: The Foo

The Foo — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:13:16 +0000

Great product! can’t wait to try it out.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:05:07 +0000

this is from aol? so far this is a sweet app.