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3 new Gleemy features

Published on February 14, 2008 in Gleemy. 0 Comments

Eugene and I have been slogging away shipping new features and bug fixes almost every week this year. The plan is to progress from private BETA to a public BETA release pretty soon.

In this post, I want to show off 3 new features.

1. New mobile Slide Show app

The J2ME Slide Show application is built in to each Slide Show made by our users.

Here’s what’s new:

  • When you view a picture that doesn’t match the orientation of your phone, an arrow appears to indicate which way you should turn your handset to see it the right way up. Previously, the picture would display the right way up always, but the sides of the picture would be cut off - not good when there’s text involved.
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  • The ‘Share’ feature works better. You can now send a link to your Slide Show to multiple contacts on a single screen. Sending the SMS no longer blocks the UI, but shows a funky progress animation instead.

2. New Application Profile Page

There are two parts to Gleemy - making and finding Slide Shows (and soon, other types of apps) on your PC; and downloading apps to your phone.

The Application Profile page has been improved. Here’s a screenshot:

App Profile Page

On the left is an emulator which you can fully interact with, to preview the application before downloading. On the right is a QR code which will take you to the mobile download page for the app. I’m delighted to see QR codes finally present in Gleemy, given how much I’ve been raving on about them lately!

3. New mobile portal (http://m.gleemy.com)

Screenshot of mobile portal m.gleemy.com Even though Gleemy is in private BETA, you don’t need to sign up to visit the mobile portal and download Slide Shows made by the community. The site has been improved behind the scenes with more compliant XHTML. We’ve tried to make the ads (served by AdMob) as unobtrusive as possible. Device detection is currently provided by the DetectRight web services API.

…and tons more minor improvements like higher quality thumbnails and images, faster download times, and more! Not interesting enough to describe, but still good features to have implemented.

If you haven’t signed up already, why not try using Gleemy? We now have capacity for more accounts. Simply head to gleemy.com and request an invite.

Up and running

Published on January 1, 2008 in Gleemy. 0 Comments

Gleemy has been up and running for over a week now. It’s been awesome seeing early users pick it up and try it out.

The experience for most users has been glitch free so far. The biggest issue we found (and fixed!) was that some email wasn’t being sent properly. Mainly invite emails were affected by this one.

We’re now making room for more accounts - if you want to play with a new way of making Slide Shows for your mobile, request an invite at gleemy.com

The Gleemy private BETA is now open

Published on December 22, 2007 in Gleemy and Mobile. 0 Comments

I’m super excited to be sending the first round of invites to the Gleemy BETA.

We hope those who sign up will find the site fun - by both making Slide Shows and downloading Slide Shows made by others.

After creating your account, you’ll notice the public content is presently scarce. That’s where I hope you’ll come in. I hope you won’t be shy creating public Slide Shows - of wacky holidays, people you admire, places you love, and everything fun.

For those pictures that are more personal, you can keep your Slide Show from appearing on the Gleemy Most Popular - useful for sending pictures of family and friends.

Haven’t signed up yet? Wondering what the fuss is about?

If the idea of your own pictures neatly packaged in a mobile Java app; with a title menu, widescreen viewing support, and phone-to-phone sharing sounds good to you, then head on over to http://gleemy.com and sign up for an invite code.

Let us know how you go

This is a BETA and we’ll be doing our best to fix the issues as they come up. Let us know how you go, email any thoughts you have to feedback@gleemy.com.