Comments on: Instant picture conversations with Radar – the Application of the Week

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By: Radar detectors

Radar detectors — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:42:33 +0000

This is awesome! thanks for the heads up, was actually looking for the info from last few weeks, thanks once again.

By: John Poisson

John Poisson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:39:50 +0000

Aha.

Well install the Radar app for Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2329758051&b&ref=pd

and invite your Facebook friends. they’ll be able to see and comment on your Radar pictures right from your Facebook profile page.

Rock on Canada. (I’m from Montreal myself!)

By: Roland Tanglao

Roland Tanglao — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:58:08 +0000

great john, i’ll give it a try via shozu, who knows maybe some of my friends will use it someday!

the only thing preventing me from using it since it works with shozu, is that none of my friends are on it, they are all on facebook and shozu and uploading their photos there and being canadians they all have not so great phones (from a photo and video point of view) and can’t afford the high cos of mobile data in canada

ah the slings and arrows of being an early adopter in Vancouver!

By: John Poisson

John Poisson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:19:48 +0000

I hear you Roland. Many Radar users are totally fine with the comparatively lower image size allowed by MMS: the focus is on quickly sharing experiences, rather than photographs.

That said, uploading over IP will be made available where we can make a user experience that’s reasonable and reliable. The good news is that Canada is one of those places.

In the mean time, you can certainly use the ShoZu utility to send your pictures to your Radar posting address, especially if your phone can reasonably do this in the background.

Enjoy.

By: Roland Tanglao

Roland Tanglao — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:10:37 +0000

MMS in Canada is lame and only allows you to upload 300K images. My N95 images are generally over 300K and up to 1MB in size so MMS is not a solution. It’s cheaper to do it over IP. I would like Radar to support upload over IP instead of just MMS and email which are very lame in the mobile gh*tto of Canada

By: John Poisson

John Poisson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:02:45 +0000

Hey, thanks Ewan. We don’t, in fact, have any connection with ShoZu, though some Radar users use the ShoZu utility to upload to Radar. Drop me a line anytime if you’d like to talk more.

And Roland, we’ve supported MMS upload to Radar since day one and it’s simply the fastest and most efficient way to get that picture you ~just took from your phone to Radar, where your friends can share in that moment immediately.

This real-time sharing of experiences is what Radar is all about, and while we’ll continue building more and more ways to share to and from Radar, this remains the best solution for many users.

Have fun.

By: Martin Willitts

Martin Willitts — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:03:26 +0000

I’ve met both Shozu and Radar over the last 18 months. Unless anything has changed they are independent of each other. Both are great services although they have focused on different aspects.

By: Roland Tanglao

Roland Tanglao — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:19:58 +0000

last time i checked,the only way to upload photos was via email which is lame since that increases the size of your photos up to 40% due to mime encoding

I hope that the java client now allows upload. i might even use it then