It’s incredible to see how PhotoShare users share their life. Recently, we have seen a lot of sneaker photos posted. Many are artistic and some are even emotional. It is really amazing that simple photos are truly art.
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PhotoCanvas is a comprehensive photo/image editing tool that allows iPhone/iPod touch users to enrich their “visual communications” by adding background, frames, clip-arts and various drawings to their photos. It even allows users to “blend” multiple photos to have unique effects.
As we mentioned on our Company Vision page, we believe that the wave of CGM (consumer generated media) we see on Youtube or Flickr today is just a tip of iceberg of this fundamental change in people’s life style. With always-connected lifestyle enabled by true “mobile computers” (iPhone is the very first one, of course!), we are going to see an explosion of creative expressions by millions of regular users.
After observing tens of thousands of PhotoShare users (who are “early adaptors” of this always-connected lifestyle), we concluded that the number of people who edit their photos on mobile devices will eventually exceed the number of PhotoShop users on PC/Mac. PhotoCanvas is our attempt to position ourselves as a serious contender of this innovation.
When I mentioned this vision to people, many people, especially heavy PhotoShop users, say “That is not possible. You never be able to build a rich tool like PhotoShop on iPhone. You never be able to replace PhotoShop”. They are right in the sense that it is not possible to make PhotoCanvas as feature-rich as PhotoShop, but they are missing a very important point – the value of always-connected lifestyle. We are not trying to replace PhotoShop. We are trying to reach people who want to get the benefits of PhotoShop, but want to get that benefits more casually and more conveniently.
Imagine a case where a mother is watching a soccer game his son is playing in Seattle, while her husband is stuck in a meeting in New York. I think it is much more valuable for them to share photos in real time – taking photos with iPhone, personalize it with photo editing software on iPhone and share them via online service directly uploading them from iPhone, while their son is playing the game – than taking photos with fancy digital camera, loading them to PC/Mac when she comes back home, and editing them with PhotoShop, and sending via e-mail.
This is why we believe iPhone+PhotoCanvas+PhotoShare is much more valuable to many users than Digital Camera+ PC/MAC+PhotoShop+Flickr. That’s why I believe the number of people who edit their photos on mobile devices will eventually exceed the number of PhotoShop users. It may take more than a couple of years, but I am so sure that it will happen eventually.
Here are some images created by our users. They are creative, aren’t they?
Our flagship application, Big Canvas PhotoShare, is not just yet another photo-sharing service for iPhone. It is a communication tool for iPhone users to fully enjoy their always-connected lifestyle. Some users even call it “visual Twitter”, but we see PhotoShare as a natural evolution after voice-calls and text-messaging (texting).
We’ve created a short video to demonstrate what is this always-connected lifestyle all about. Enjoy the video, get iPhone (if you haven’t) and join the PhotoShare community today. If you like texting, I guarantee you that you’d love PhotoShare.
HolidayFrames allows users to create personalized holiday cards on their iPhones, and share them either via e-mail or our social networking service, PhotoShare.
Just like other “add-on” applications, the primary target segment of this aplication is existing PhotoShare community, where people are already familiar with the concept of “visual communication”. The feedbacks from our beta users are quite positive, and it fits really well with the always-connected culture enabled by iPhone.
We also produced a short instruction video and posted to Youtube.
Since the introduction of i-Mode by DoComo in 1999, Japan has been the leader of mobile industry. As the result, many Japanese consumers (not just early adaptors) use their cell phones as THE primary device to take pictures everywhere and communicate with friends and family in real time – enjoying the “always-connected” lifestyle.
Since the introduction of iPhone to Japanese market in July 2008, PhotoShare quickly became the most popular social network service among Japanese iPhone users, and became the must-have application there. I am very pleased with this initial success and became more confident that the real-time “visual conversation” PhotoShare offers has a significant value to those people who enjoy always-connected lifestyle.
I’ve just noticed that PhotoShare users in various parts of Japan have organized parties in three major cities — Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya — to get together, drink, talk and enjoy this holiday season. I think this is yet another proof that PhotoShare users are building a healthy, friendly community, and are using PhotoShare as a tool to extend their social life.
I had an opportunity to talk to Nancy Gohring of IDG News Service this morning about various topics related the wireless industry (she already wrote an article with a couple of quotes by me).
The wireless industry started as a “mobile voice communication” service over analog (1G) network. The digital network (2G) enabled the “wireless data service”, but the primary application was SMS (text messaging).
When I have started attending various wireless conferences (such as CTIA) in early 2000’s, the hot topic was “what is the killer application (enabled by 3G, Java and Smartphones)?”
As one of early adaptor of DoCoMo’s iMode phones (back then) and iPhone (now), I am quite excited about various things I can do with those advanced wireless devices, such as checking weather, looking up the map, and surfing the web.
Despite those cool applications, it is clear that the ultimate reason why people carry wireless devices is communication.
Just as the “texting” became the killer application for 2G network, the most significant applications enabled by 3G and 2nd generation of smart phones (iPhone is the very first one) are various communication tools and services, including e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, twittering, and social networking.
This is why we built PhotoShare, the visual communication service application for iPhone users.
Unlike Flickr, which is the photo storage service for PC users, PhotoShare is fully optimized for always-connected lifestyle. Unlike Flickr users, PhotoShare users post more casual photos more frequently. Active users post several photos a day, starting with “good morning” photo to friends and ending with “good night” photo.
Because iPhone users are truly always-connected, the communications are instantaneous. It is not uncommon to see tens of comments posted to a photo within 30 minutes.
Several people mentioned that “PhotoShare is a visual version of Twitter”. Although I don’t think we compete with Twitter, it is true that the value proposition of PhotoShare is very similar to Twitter. Both service enable light-weight, instant communication – much lighter than blogging or e-mail messages.
Some PhotoShare users told us that they started to using it as a light-weight communication tool among family memebers. For example, when college kids are in different states, it is obviously impossible to expect them to call parents everyday. It is, however, quite easy to let them post photos to PhotoShare everyday so that parents can see they are doing fine.
We have released our forth iPhone application, OilCanvas, last week. It was accepted very well in Asian market initially (we quickly became the most popular application in Japanese app store). The take-off in U.S. market is slower, but we see a solid growth.
Many OilCanvas users also joined the PhotoShare community and started posting their paintings to our PhotoShare server. Over a thousand of paintings were posted in a matter of few days after the launch of this product. This is really amazing! iPhone users are having a lot of fun with this always-connected lifestyle.
Here are some examples, I’ve gathered over the weekend.
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GizMode wrote about PhotoShare, which is really great for publicity, but there is one paragraph I don’t like.
Their first app for the iPhone, PhotoShare, isn’t bad, but it’s another photo service to sign up for, and we just wanna use Flickr, damn it.
PhotoShare is NOT yet another photo storage service, it is a social networking service that allows users to share their experiences with friends, family and the rest of world in real time.
The key is “real-time”. PhotoShare is not designed for people to upload pictures they have taken several hours ago. We have optimized PhotoShare for people to share their photos while they are experiencing, in order to share their experiences, express their emotions, and communicates with friends and family.
Last weekend, many PhotoShare users took their own photos right before they go to Dark Knight (a new batman movie) sharing their excitements, then posted their photos again after watching the movie. This exactly the scenario PhotoShare was designed, for that that is the real “always connected” lifestyle.
Apple has finally opened the App Store, and our flagship application, PhotoShare is available to download. PhotoShare is a brand new social networking application that allows iPhone users to share photos with friends and family directly from their iPhone – very easy to use, very smooth to run, and (unlike other social networking services) no registration is required.
We have designed everything (client-side software for iPhone, server-side software, and web-service API) from scratch, in order to offer the best possible user experience to iPhone users. With our state-of-art asynchronous transaction manager, all the communications with the server were done asynchronously and securely – offering a seamless, stress-free user experience.
Here is a promotional/instruction video we’ve just created and uploaded to Youtube.
Apple has just opened the App Store (link to our app, PhotoShare on iTunes store), and we’ve got a great quote by Wall Street Journal.
One of the new wave of iPhone start-ups is Big Canvas Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., a firm creating a social-networking application for the iPhone that uses photos. Satoshi Nakajima, CEO of Big Canvas, said the development tools Apple offers for the iPhone, which are derived from technology underpinning Apple’s time-tested Macintosh operating system, are the best he has seen for mobile software developers.
Mr. Nakajima, a former longtime Microsoft software engineer, also praised the App Store, Apple’s channel for distributing software to iPhone users, which he believes will give greater visibility to unknown software developers than has been the case with other mobile phones.
