With Radar, users can take pictures with a mobile phone or digital camera and send it directly to Radar as a picture email message, then choose which friends can instantly see it from a phone or PC. Think Twitter on steroids.
To get the process started, you have to sign up for a free account, and pick a unique username. When account information is submitted users are presented with a unique Radar email address. This is the email address where you would send pictures or videos either from your mobile camera phone, or from your desktop PC. Once they have been uploaded to your personal account, friends and contacts can then post comments and share their thoughts on your pictures and videos through a special invitation code you send them. Just another way to incorporate your mobile lifestyle into an online social setting.
[via Mashable]
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3-03-2007 @ 11:53PM
Zach Marshall said...
How's this any different than what flickr does? Why use this over flickr?
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3-06-2007 @ 1:11PM
John Poisson said...
Yeah, that's a fair question Zach, and there are a couple of different ways to answer it.
Most importantly, Radar and Flickr are different kinds of services. Flickr is an open community of people interested in photographs (and fwiw I've been a member just about as long as it's been around).
Radar, on the other hand, focuses on instantly sharing cameraphone pictures and videos among your friends, and the result has much more to do with staying in touch and conveying presence (hence the 'Twitter on steroids' comparison) than with sharing Photographs. It's about sharing experiences as they happen, and engaging in an ongoing conversation with the people in your life.
A big part of this has to do with Radar's focus on the mobile experience. In addition to the posting mechanism described above (which Flickr mostly offers as well), a big part of using Radar involves staying engaged from your phone, either from the mobile site (http://radar.net) or from the Radar phone clients designed to work on a big range of popular phones, not just high-end smart phones.
What else is different? Radar gives you complete control over who sees your pictures (you can block or allow individuals or groups at any time); video support; real-time notifications of new content; and of course a whole bunch of other stuff coming soon.
Hope this helps.
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