Social Media Strategy: Why Meeting In The ‘Real World’ Matters

I’m a huge advocate of social media and how it helps bridge new relationships and strengthen existing ones, but I think it’s bad practice to rely on it as a sole means of communicating with others. I’m a community manager today, but my background is in journalism. One of the first lessons I learned from […]

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Updated: Bump’s Mini-Pivot: Photo-Sharing From Your Phone By Bumping Your Keyboard

Screen shot 2012-04-11 at 17.01.28Bump, the popular mobile sharing app that lets users exchange photos and information by bumping their smartphones together, is getting in touch with a new device: the computer keyboard. And it appears to also be taking on a new frontier: cloud-based photo-sharing.

Now with 85 million downloads of its app under its belt, Bump is beta testing a new, very simple service that lets users of the app select a photo on their phones, navigate to bump’s site on their computer, bump their space bar on their keyboard with the phone, and then see the image magically appear on the screen. From there, a user can (so far) keep it in the Bump cloud, download it to their computer, post it to Facebook or send someone a link (pictures of how that looks below).

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Death To Feature Creep! Bump 3.0 Dumps All But Contacts and Photo Sharing

Bump Photosmore, More, MORE. STOP! Rather than cram more features into Bump 3.0, the team behind the 75 million-installs mobile app combed the data and brushed off all the features no one used. Now, instead of letting you wirelessly share apps, music, and calendar events with nearby devices, it only allows contacts and photo sharing. That’s a better user experience, and examples other developers should follow.

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