Mosnaps is Picking up Speed Thursday 2008-05-15
So finally Mosnaps is launched albeit in beta. This is not to deter you, as all web 2.0 sites are in beta, seemingly for ever. What you can do at this nice community site is really fun. From your mobile smartphone, you can upload images from its directories or directly from the camera. The images are immediately accessible by your friends and family, or for anyone if you make them public.
They are automatically presented at you Mosnaps public page - mine is http://mosnaps.com/petit.
You can also copy and paste code form your account to include one of the Flash based Mosnaps viewers on you own site or on Myspace or FaceBook.
You can have a look at the FaceBook viewer right here. So go to the Mosnaps site and sign up. If you have a supported phone, you download a small Java application directly to you phone and start mosnapping.
If your phone is not yet supported, you can upload images through a web interface. On your account you can also reorganize your images, edit your descriptions and get comments from other members of the community.
Using a nifty drag and drop applications, you can create slide shows by dragging and dropping images from your different albums. The slideshow is saved and can be shown at any time at any site using a Flash based slide show viewer.
Join and make your friends know what you are doing right now.
Mosnaps Presented at AT&T Fast Pitch Thursday 2008-04-03
Harish and Amit presented the Mosnaps applications and community at AT&T Fast Pitch session at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. The Fast Pitch is a way for AT&T not to miss any new good inventions in the mobile arena. Above all, it is a way for small innovative companies to get their applications shown to the world, using the muscles of a giant. “Standing on the shoulders of giants”, is an expression that comes to mind. Some hundred companies get five minutes to present their technical idea and business model before a panel of AT&T experts, and some few get rewarded with some money and a promotion vehicle. The the great job to get it working starts.
Hopefully the presentation went well and hopefully the jury was impressed. All that could be said from the mobile snapshots uploaded to Mosnaps so far, is that the guys ar good looking.
Mosnaps on the run Monday 2008-03-31
I’m working hard with Harish, Amit, Alexandre, Brandon and others to get the Mosnaps site afloat. Hopefully it will happen soon now.
Not everything will work and it will still be beta, but the site is getting nicer and cooler for each day. Some nice flash viewers, which is my contribution, will be ready to present your mobile snapshots. Work is done by the Indian group to get Java uploaders for different Java enabled phones, but they are not ready yet. Until that works, people with other phones than the Blackbarry’s can upload images over the web. It is also possible to organize already uploaded images over a web interface and to view and comment your friend’s images.
It will be a lot of fun on this new social site. Is that web 2.0? You bet 
Mo-Snaps at CES Monday 2008-01-07
Aloa!!
We are life at CES in Las Vegas presenting mobile snaps at the Berry review site!
Indeed we made it. Some hard days and nights for the team after we got the chance with very short notice.
Hopefully the server copes with the load.
[Edit]Well, the Berry Review uploaded just a few images from their BlackBerry phone, and now they lifted the Mo-snaps widget out.
You can still see the Berry widget on the maufait blog.
[Edit 08-03-01] Not even that is true anymore - I guess I have to keep you updated. Enjoyed it as long as it lasted. Soon the MoSnaps service will leave it’s closed beta for the first launch.
The Mobile Snapshots Saturday 2008-01-05
Ever wanted to keep your friends continuously updated on the great life of yours? Now you can! Oh well, I know you could already snap a picture of your reality using your mobile phone, and immediately send it as an MMS to your friends. And yes, some of you might even send video from your 3G phone.
So what’s the deal? You’d expect I tell you, right?
Indeed, the news is a service at maufait.com to which you can upload your mobile phone images, and have them presented on the web in a nice Flash widget. Now all your friends can follow you on line, as you rush through your life mo-snapping whatever you find significant. You don’t have to MMS them one at a time. Your images are saved at the maufait site and you can include a nifty widget on your own site, to present the mobile snaps. The service is called Mo-Snaps, and I am happy to code the Flash widget.
What’s the catch here? As it stands right now, you have to be invited to participate. The whole thing is in beta state. The upload only works for BlackBerry phones, but development is under way for any Java enable phone. There is already a MIDP application for Java phones, but a test on my SE 810i failed, so there are still work to be done on that application.
Sooner or later this service will work for all of us.
Starting this Sunday the Berry Review will hopefully report from the CES in Las Vegas, using this service.
Have a look!
Sandy Running Wild Thursday 2007-11-29
Wow! After the release of Sandy 3.0 and the short after the update to 3.0.1, the library is gaining speed. New and wonderful things pops up. Here is a little demo of a wild little vehicle crashing in to wooden boxes. Just a demo of course. Image and all from nicoptere.
New and Fixed Sandy 3D Tuesday 2007-11-27
Lovers, fans and users of the Sandy 3D library, be happy!
Thomas and the team have released Sandy 3.0.1, a maintenance update, with bug fixes but also some new features. Go get the new version!
And why not take a look at my immersive City Hall demo, which uses the SkyBox primitive, and some amazing photos.
Wired Sandy 3D Sunday 2007-11-11
In the late hours of development before the Sandy 3.0 official release, there emerged a fascinating project named redsandy.
This is a net based collaborative 3D world, or chat and shootout environment, or .. well I really don’t know what it is.
The reason is that it is quite new to me and everyone, except possibly the developer Andy Shaules.
The name of the project comes from the combination of the open source media server Red5 and the likewise open source Sandy 3D engine.
On names, by the way - one peculiarity is that Andy popped in to the Sandy forum under the signature AndyS. How about that?
AndyS on Sandy. Create the next permutation as home work!
For further explanation of the redsandy project and its ramifications, I’ll give the word to AndyS at GoogleCode
I’ll make sure to learn a bit or two about this creature, but first on to some more basic Sandy tutorials.
Sandy 3.0 Released
Woppie!
Today Thomas released Sandy 3.0, the state of the art AS3 3D ActionScript library.
After an intensive development period, the new library is here, leaner and meaner, than the AS2 versions 1.x.
If you think of creating 3D worlds for the latest Flash Player, taking advantage of the faster flash engine, that comes with Player 9, you should go ahead and download Sandy 3.0.
It comes with a JavaDoc like API documentation and a growing set of introductory and advanced tutorials.
To get a feeling for the possibilities, take a look at the demos. It is early days, so more demo apps will emerge from the steadily growing user/developer community.
My congratulations to Thomas and coworkers for an amazing development, and to the 3D designers/programmers for the availability of a really fine library!
Also to expect later on, is a “back porting” of the new engine to the Sandy 2.0 AS2 version, which will be a good alternative for developers, who for some reason have to stay with AS2.
Petit Labs on Sandy 3.0 Friday 2007-10-19
As we are traveling towards the next release candidate of Sandy, the humbly numbered RC1, I have been busy bringing my tutorial “Using Sandy 3.0 Flash Library” forward.
Already the Sandy 3.0 is a big leap in usability and performance, and it is still under development. The naming policy may be questioned. What I mean is that what we have is stable in a way and very usable, so we could have had a release instead of a candidate.
I guess the reason for this humbleness is that Thomas want to present something extra, and he continues to develop heavily, with the risk being, that the API will still break at some point.
So we will settle for a RC1 release fairly soon.
In the meantime, come visit the Sandy wiki and forum and of course my tutorial, directed at beginners as well as pros 
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