Social networking – there’s no doubt it’s here to stay. According to Wikipedia, social networking is defined as the building of online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. The rise of popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and Twitter have become important ways for people to communicate and share information, begging the question: What’s the next phase for social networking?
Big Canvas Inc., a Bellevue, Wash. – based creative developer of social media applications may have the answer. The company has developed pivotal technology for “always-connected” devices such as the Apple iPhone that will dramatically change the social media landscape.
Big Canvas recently launched PhotoShare, an application designed for the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch that allows users to stay connected with friends and family through “visual conversations.” With a few simple touches users can easily take images captured through daily life and distribute to all PhotoShare users or family and friends. PhotoShare is vastly unlike traditional static photo sharing applications like those on Facebook because people are sharing and commenting on snapshots of their life in real-time.
We have been working with Big Canvas to help promote its add-on applications including SmallCanvas, PhotoArtist, OilCanvas and HolidayFrames. We were truly impressed with the concept of visual conversations and how powerful and portable devices such as iPhone are enabling consumers to take social networking to a new level with a few quick touches of their mobile phone.
The concept has also resonated well with the media. In the month of December alone we’ve secured briefings with Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and InformationWeek , and articles in BusinessWeek and mocoNews.net. In addition, we’ve secured coverage with RCR Wireless, Washington Post, MSNBC.com and TopTechNews.com.
We’ve included some examples of some of the masterpieces we created on our own using Big Canvas’ applications. Click on the following links to see a video demo of PhotoShare or HolidayFrames.
