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| By Irfan Ahmed |
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 (17:59:31) |
| Tags : Twitsnaps, TwitPic, Photoshare, Twitter |
Twitter photoshare: TwitSnaps introduces new features |
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| San Jose: TwitPic made Twitter photosharing a rage following a snap of airplane crash in Hudson river which was sent to Twitter via this application. But there are umpteen applications out there, some of them have carved their niche like .. TwitSnaps with its feature-rich approach.
So how is TwitSnaps trying to differentiate itself? "By offering higher resolution so you can use both DSLRs as well as high resolution cell phone cameras like the new Nokia N97 that's just coming on the market." writes Robert Scoble, one of the web's most influential blogger in his blog Scobleizer which came to prominence during his term with Microsoft as a technical evangelist.
"They (TwitSnaps) are also adding video which is something I've seen Twitvid.io do so far," says Scoble. The video application is already live on the site.
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Recently, Robert Scoble stopped by Simarprit Singh, the brain behind TwitSnaps, in Singh's San Jose office and taken a video interview.
Asked about the application Simar said, "It is TwitSnaps, a photograph sharing site over Twitter, which we launched last month May 11. It brings in lot of features."
Simar told Scoble these features are present on major photo sites but introduced first time in Twitter photoshare space. "We brought them to Twitter platform for the first time. And we are now able to take pictures of 10 MB or above while everyone else takes 4 MB. If your mobile phone can handle it, TwitSnaps can handle it too," said the founder of TwitSnaps.
Enquired what intrigued him to start the website, Simar said: "I was using other tools like TwitPic for quite sometime and there were certain things I couldn't do with them. For example, I wasn't able to crop my images, magnify and zoom, and, of course, I wasn't able to add images which were very large. The idea was to introduce an application which could handle large images as well and allow to crop and rotate them."
Comparing the application with TwitPic Simar said: "TwitPic won't allow me to rotate my images and save them permanently. So if I have taken an image from a particular angle it would always remain like that and everyone would have to come and twist the camera angles to see it."
"Whereas on TwitSnaps, after you upload your image, set your default angle you like everyone to see the image with and you are done. Now, everyone can see the image from that particular angle," Singh said.
On social media, everyone wants some fame however small and shortlived. "So, model which we worked on was that whatever the last photograph was uploaded on TwitSnaps, it remains on homepage for 10 sec, 20 sec, 10 minutes or 24 hours giving credit to its uploader. I think that's a good starting point for someone who wants to share a picture," Simar laughed.
Asked by Scoble about video sharing, Simar said, "Right now, final alpha testing is going on on video. We have formal video launch tomorrow (Thursday). Videos can be directly uploaded from your mobile phone and your desktop for sharing on Twitter. Both features will be live and running soon."
Connectivity through mobile and mail on Twitter is another exciting feature that TwitSnaps offers. "We have mobile application as well as direct email attachment connectivity. You just send us image through an email with a subject line and it is done," told Simar.
"TwitSnaps has its integrated url-shortening service too," added the 43-year-old Indian entrepreneur.
Asked about how would you monetize the application, Simar said: "We are very focussed. We create niche products and sell them off. So far, we have created and sold off over 50 e-business products over the last few years. Our aim is to monetize it and then sell it off."
The interview video is available on Robert Scoble's blog Scobleizer. |
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