Comments on: Sharpcast rocks! http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/ The personal web site of Eirik Solheim Thu, 16 May 2013 22:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2052 Eirikso Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:31:01 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2052 Opening the API is very good news. That would speed up addition of all kinds of cool features.

Including another request that I forgot in my list:

A client for my Media Center. Photos look great on the big screen in the living room…

With an API it won’t take long before someone build plugins for several of the many media centers out there.

]]> By: Gibu Thomas http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2051 Gibu Thomas Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:56:35 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2051 Hi Eirik and friends,

This is Gibu Thomas, CEO of Sharpcast. Thanks for the thoughtful review and the great comments.

We are addressing almost all of your feedback, and for the ones we are not going to directly address (like integration with a specific 3rd party service), we are opening our API’s, so they can be addressed by developers. Specifically, we are sensitive to security concerns, the Mac question, etc and are committed to providing you answers that we feel pretty confident will satisfy you. It is still early days, but you will see that we are serious about building the best overall photos experience as well as extending the same seamless experience to other data types.

Thanks for your patience and great feedback. Please keep letting us know what you think, so we can continue to get better.

Cheers,

Gibu Thomas,
CEO, Sharpcast.

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2050 Eirikso Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:51:29 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2050 …but if this is a success Apple will as usual destroy the business case for third party developers by making something themselves. By combining iPhoto and .Mac in a proper way to give the same functionallity?

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2049 Eirikso Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:48:18 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2049 I mentioned this in festure request number one:

“The storage could be provided by a third party. Amazon S3 sounds promising. Big, reliable and secure.”

I guess you would say should be provided…

And yes, both a Mac client and a Linux client. My father can access the pictures I share with him on his Mac through the web, but a proper client for Mac is also vital for this to be a complete solution.

]]> By: Oyvind http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2048 Oyvind Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:56:26 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2048 Your list is missing one thing that I think should be number one: Encryption.

If I’m going to send all my family pictures to a server, I would like them to be safe. Both when transfered and when stored. The nice thing about Amazon S3 is that it has a strong encryption.

So if Sharpcast could offer storage at Amazon S3, that would be a great way to fix this.

Oh, and a Mac client.

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 Eirikso Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:48:49 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2047 There we are. Thanks to Mr. PÃ¥l Jensen – two screenshots of Sharpcast running on a Qtek 9000 in Norway:

Sharpcast Mobile

Sharpcast Mobile

Looks promising.

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2046 Eirikso Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:40:03 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2046 aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh. I want this. For Symbian Series 60. Including the version that is in the Nokia N80.

]]> By: Pål Jensen http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2045 Pål Jensen Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:36:08 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2045 Yes it works with Mobile devices in Norway, and by the way they have integrated the Camera on my Qtek so that I can take pictures with my Mobile and store it in one of my albums on Sharpcast immediately available for others to enjoy (without MMS or email attachments….)

PÃ¥l

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2044 Eirikso Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:11:10 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2044 Thank you for your info. I guess this confirms that Sharpcast works with Windows Mobile in Norway as well.

The good news is that rumors from the Sharpcast team confirm that many of the feature requests that I have mentioned will be included in the next release.

They haven’t officially published a release date, but I wouldn’t be shocked if the next release is here within a month or two…

]]> By: PÃ¥l Jensen http://eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-2043 PÃ¥l Jensen Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:49:04 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/#comment-2043 Hello Erik!
This product/project is very interesting, and should be an inspiration to many software vendors!

I installed the SW on my Laptop, my home computer and my Qtek 9000.

And I am amazed to see how smooth this works. I or my friends can access the information with the device available to me. Client computer, Mobile device or WEB.

Just great! :)

Of course there are functionality that I want to be added to but…

PÃ¥l Jensen

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