Pixelpipe, the service that lets you syndicate text, audio, video and image files to 80 different social networks, blogs and sites, has launched an amped up version of their Android app. Following the release of the Android 1.5 “cupcake” that has video capture functionality, Pixelpipe’s app lets you upload video and audio directly from the device to over 45 social media destinations.
The new app, which previously let you send photos as your status update or blog/micro-blog post, will link to media and send out a shortened link back to the user’s customizable pi.pe landing page. Similar to TwitPic, a pi.pe page is a customized Pixelpipe landing page where media can link back to.
The Android app also lets you upload MP3s and audio recordings directly from the handset to music-focused social networks such as Imeem, as well as to Twitter, as a status update or an email. Since video files can be so large, the startup has rewritten its mobile upload service to accommodate large files being transferred from slower mobile connections. Pixelpipe’s app also enables background uploads, allowing users to just press the home key to put Pixelpipe in the background and still continue an upload. This contrasts to its iPhone app, which loses the connection to the application as soon as the application is closed.
Pixelpipe’s app will be a boon to Android users out there, especially given the new video uploading capabilities. The true virtue of Pixelpipe’s service is the fact that it lets you publish all types of files to various social networks and sites from a centralized place versus TwitPic, which lets you publish photos to just to Twitter, or TwitVid, which lets you publish videos to Twitter. The latest Androids got some buzz last week at Google I/0, where the company handed out free G2 Androids to attendees as a thank you to the development community. While Android’s market share is still small, a full 18 to 20 different handsets are expected to be released this year from a variety of manufacturers.
wow, how exciting
I believe you forgot the *yawn* emote.
many people do not know but cupcake was rolled out to T-Mobile G1 users last week. Great stuff.
BTW, I didn’t see this on TC
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Now you can see what Donald Trump & Kevin Rose’s Google homepages look like. Just like the celeb pages on MySpace.
BTW, Thanks Google for the Google Wave developer account. I am going to try to build an app this weekend with it.
Why do android apps look so terrible compared to iphone apps?
iPhone apps target a different demographic – one that cares more about looks than function.
That’s was a joke. It’s not Android’s fault. You can create crappy looking apps on iPhone, too.
The newer version of PixelPipe got released last week so that’s not news and Android video sucks anyway and is totally useless.
PixelPipe is good, but very basic. For example, some apps store their icons as regular media (and there are hundreds of them!) and there’s no way to show images in a specific folder (and mark it as “default”) or at least mark which folders to ignore.
Anyway, both pix and videos suck on G1, so, PixelPipe is a nice piece of software, but who would want that crap on flickr or YouTube?
Now I officially have android-envy. Well done Pixelpipe!
Way to go Brett and Tracy!! These guys do not get enough credit for the apps they build. Besides the android app, their iphone app is the best uploader I have used, the s60 integration plugs into the native camera app, and once you setup your destinations your pics will be there waiting for you.
Keep up the good work.
Am I still on Techcrunch? An actual blog entry on a dedicated non-iPhone mobile app? This must be a first.