More people than ever can now join in on your Groupix collaborative photo albums! Groupix for Blackberry is now available on the Blackberry AppWorld store. The app is currently only available for Blackberry devices with OS6 but worry not, we are working on compatibility with other RIM devices as we speak.
Download the Blackberry app from the AppWorld itself:
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/24031?lang=en
Happy photo taking!
We are happy to announce that our latest version of Groupix for iPhone is now on the Apple AppStore! This latest version brings all of the UI improvement we introduced on the Android platform to iOS. You’ll find a simpler UI optimized for photo taking. We think you’ll like what you see.
Now that Groupix is compatible on all major mobile platform (Android, iOS and soon BlackberryOS) it is more useful than ever for photo documenting your trips, parties, weddings and social events. Never again will you have to wait the next day for your friend to send you the photos he took from his camera. With Groupix, you see the photos right away!
Right in time for the Christmas holidays, Groupix has finally gone cross-platform! Your friends with Android handsets can now also join in on your collaborative photo albums using the new Groupix for Android.
Groupix for Android sports a brand new user interface that is both simpler and more intuitive to use. In fact, we like the new UI so much that we’ve decide to bring the same experience to the iPhone app so stay tuned, we’ll let you know as soon as the new iPhone app completes its journey through the Apple AppStore approval process.
In the meantime, you can get Groupix for Android by searching for “groupix” in the Android Market from your handset.
Community-based contributions aka crowd sourcing has really changed the way we learn, interact and live in recent years. Instead of relying on a publisher’s encyclopedia or Microsoft Encarta, the world now tunes in and contributes to Wikipedia. Instead of reading sponsored reviews of restaurants or consumer electronics from newspapers and magazines, we read Yelp, blogs, and Amazon‘s user reviews. We trust each other more than we trust the one expert hired for the task.
Wikipedia has a quote from Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing”. “Howe explains that because technological advances have allowed for cheap consumer electronics, the gap between professionals and amateurs has been diminished. Companies are then able to take advantage of the talent of the public”.
So what’s this trend have to do with Groupix and Photography?
Groupix is real time crowd sourced photo collaboration. It will shape the definition of social photography.
Have you been to a wedding or organized your own?
At a wedding, you spend a lot of money hiring professional photographer(s) to try to capture all the details of your special moments. There’s at most 1-2 photographers with their lenses pointed to the bride and groom noticing every smile, tear, movement. There pictures do turn out beautifully!! But how about the moment that your grandpa and grandma hug each other with a smile that can’t possibly be described with a thousand words? Or the little flower girl gets a peck on the cheek from your nephew. Memorable moments could happen at any time to anybody attending the wedding. Your talented professional photographers, through no fault of their own, exists only as only a single or dual entity. Their lens points in one direction at a time and they can’t be in all the right places at once.
Your loyal photo loving guests will definitely assist you in taking photos of their friends and their table. But after it’s all said and done, amongst the 100 things you still have to do after the wedding, one is to bug every person that might have brought a camera or taken photos on their iPhone to send that photo to you. Then you have to physically look at 1000s of photos which your attention span can’t possibly be dedicated to. You also see some photos tagged on Facebook, resulting in 100s of albums by your guests all scattered around the Internet.
Ah ha, you can also give everyone attending the wedding a disposable camera which you can collect at the end. That’s what your parents did! Yes, this is crowdsource photography before the invention of digital cameras and smartphones! Well ok, you could give everyone a digital camera – but well, you’ll have to budget for that, digital cameras have yet to come down in price to buy them in bulk!
Well alright, how about if you could set up a place where everyone’s pictures automatically appear there as they are taking the photos? Since it’s all in one place, people can also see as the photos get uploaded and vote on which ones they like. Also, the guests that could not attend your wedding can tune into the web to see photos as they’re taken!
At the end of the night:
- you would not need to ask anybody else for photos
- all the most interesting, fun, exciting photos will be the ones that people voted on
- you can go on your honeymoon while not worrying about if all the moments were captured.
Right now it is only available on the iPhone but we will expand to other platforms and wifi enabled SD cards.
So go ahead, try Groupix for the iPhone 4 and the iPod touch!
And stay tuned as we write about more applications of Groupix!
We are very excited to announce that our Groupix iPhone App is available in the App Store today!
Groupix is a real-time group photo sharing app. What does this mean? Are you tired of having to wait until after your night out before you can see photos? Are you tired of asking your friends and people that you don’t know for photos of the night? Do you have to search through multiple albums, emails to see all the photos?
Instead, with Groupix, you and all your friends with iPhones can add photos to the same album and get notified when new photos are added. You can also interact by commenting or voting on photos during the event. This would be useful at your next night out, wedding, birthday party, networking event, concert, sports game, or any event.
Web albums of your photos are also created automatically. So people that could not make it out can also check the album to see what is happening at the event.
Download it now to try it out.
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After the Kuubee Photoshare iPhone application was made a few months ago, we have been working hard to significantly add features and rebrand our real-time photosharing with friends application to what we now call… Groupix. It is exciting as we are releasing the new website, blog, photo albums and eagerly awaiting for our new app to be approved on the app store.
What is Groupix?
We are leveraging our real-time photosharing technology to make it easy for you to encourage your friends and family to take pictures at the next gathering and share them instantly without worrying about consolidating everyone’s photos the next day. When one person takes a picture, everyone else at your event will be notified and you can view it and give your feedback right away. Sometimes, your best photo is taken by someone else, with Groupix, you’ll be able to view it, facebook it or tweet it right away. Your album is also viewable on the web so if someone can’t make it to your gathering, they tune into your album on the web and watch as the event unfolds!
Who should use Groupix?
We think that every event organizer out there will find this app useful. Whether you are organizing a networking event, conference, wedding, party, birthday, potluck or any kind of meetup in the past and have had headaches consolidating pictures from all the attendees, this is for you. Groupix also provides a useful icebreaker – encouraging all your attendees to take photos, share photos and start new conversations.
Let us know what you think of the new Groupix site and stay tuned to find out when the App will be appearing on the App Store!