API of the Week on Read Write Web!

snaprdev:

“Snapr is a mobile application for sharing geo-tagged images. Its goal is to create a “live map of the world’s photos.” It also has an API that enables developers to add location information and Instagram-like social photo feeds to your own mobile photo apps. You can also use Snapr’s API to give users the ability to send photos to multiple services from one application.”

RWW Excellent! A great new app on one of the internet’s biggest tech sites. (Kiwi-owned, too.)

Snapr on Mashable!

snaprdev:

“As the proverb goes, if you can’t beat them it’s best to join them, and that’s exactly the move that Snapr made when it opened an API this month that other photo apps can use to create a social component to their own apps.

“The API will allow other photo apps to add sharing capabilities, add photo streams similar to Instagram’s, or add location-based and mapping features. Photos shared across multiple apps using Snapr’s API will contribute to Snapr’s inventory, making their own app more robust.

“If Snapr’s API does attract a significant number of developers, it will bode well for the next move the self-funded startup has planned. The next version of its own app will focus on finding friends and keeping track of what they’re up to via location-based photo feeds (it will be interesting to see if this new version can compete with Foursquare’s new photo-sharing feature).”

Good development from the guys at Snapr.

snaprdev:

Tips for camera app developers wishing to use the Snapr API

Snapr’s API is designed to make adding real-time social features to any camera app super easy.

In fact we love our API so much that it has more functionality than our currently available app and website!

For full documentation please visit: http://developer.sna.pr

Here are some of the highlights:

  • Easily embed a social feed of photos in your app

    Snapr has created an HTML 5 mobile optimized template for iPhone and Android that you can load within your app to easily add a social photo feed.

    Users can like and comment on each others photos, and follow each other.

    The feed also features a map view for easy discovery of nearby photos.

    The templates and CSS for themes are based on jQuery mobile. You can customize the look and layout to make sure things fit in with your product. 

  • Show photos just from your app and promote on Facebook

    Snapr makes it easy for you to show only the photos taken by users of your app.

    When you register as a third party developer on Snapr (http://sna.pr/oauth/) we create a public group for your app’s users, and all photos from your app will be automagically added.

    You can then choose to return only those photos when you make a Snapr API call or load a web view.

    If you add a homepage for your app when you register we will add a link to it when people post photos via your app to Facebook.

    To register an app and create a public group visit: http://sna.pr/oauth

  • Share to Multiple Services with one upload

    With one upload to Snapr photos can be pushed to multiple services including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare.

    Snapr will add more and more possible sharing destinations that you can easily integrate. We focus on the social so you can focus on your app.

    For users this means they only need to connect once to all their favorite social services and they can use the same login across multiple photo apps.

  • Link through to your site first when sharing via Snapr

    We understand that a custom web presence for displaying images is important for promoting your app and creating a unique user experience. 

    When sharing images to other services such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare you can link first to the image on your own site. For example the link you tweet for the image might become http://coolapp.com/{{ snapr photo code }}/ instead of http://sna.pr/{{ photo code }}

    You will need to build your site in such a way that it can display images by calling them up via the Snapr API.

    For camera app developers Snapr is free to use in this way as long as you provide a link on or near the image to the Snapr map. 

  • Build from scratch using the API, or use customized views of our mobile website.

    All calls available used by our own mobile app and web site are available to third party developers. This gives you the power to build a fully customized product of your own should you wish.

    User sign up and account management can also be handled via web views of our mobile site.

    The mobile site is currently available in two different flavors (Basic, and Snapr iPhone), more themes and a new look will be revealed when we release our new product in 2011.

  • More details you will be pleased to hear:

    Snapr uses OAuth 2.0, and where possible uses Oauth to connect with other services. All Snapr mobile templates are accessible via https://

    As well as JSON the Snapr API can return photo results as both RSS and Media RSS.

    Snapr allows you to exchange an OAuth token for a current session when you call up a page from our mobile website so if you have already authenticated a user via OAuth they won’t need to log in again when they load up a feed / account page.

    You can test most API calls by visiting: http://sna.pr/api-test/

About Snapr:

Snapr will be launching its own fully featured web / mobile product early in 2011.

Our goal is to bring together snaps from a broad ecosystem of apps and devices.

Our mobile/web products will be focussed on helping people keep track of where their friends and family are at via their latest photos.

Please note:

If your app is primarily for the purposes of promoting a product, brand, or sponsored event please review our terms of service and contact us with regards to commercial licenses.

Snapr is for sharing photos people have taken, we do not act as hosts for other image files or advertising material. Please review our Terms of Service for more information.


Use the Snapr API Reblogging on behalf of my friends from Snapr.

snaprdev: Friday, 30th July 2010 Press Release: Snapr Snapr Launch Snapr, a new web service for sharing geotagged photos, officially launches today - http://sna.pr. The service aims to give smart phone photos a better home on the web. From the founders - “Snapr is a big public channel for people to share what’s happening in their life - we love the idea of a map with crowdsourced photos, you can look in anywhere, discover new people, and find neat things going on.” “Mobile snaps are less about aesthetics, they are an immediate way to show what is going on where you are.” Photos on Snapr are viewed via a map based interface. Snaps from the same place and time are naturally brought together. An iPhone application allows users to upload photos, send tweets, and view the map on the go. The early iPhone only version of Snapr was featured worldwide by Apple in the iTunes store. In its first month Snapr was downloaded more than 50 000 times despite only being a partial version of the service.  In the run up to launch there are already photos from all over the world. Snapr was founded by Rowan Wernham and Edward Talbot in 2009.  Based in Auckland New Zealand Snapr will soon also operate from New York. “Its going to be a bit Flight of the Concords heading to New York - two scruffy guys with no cash, but we can’t wait to get over there, it’s the center for location based start-ups right now” Snapr was the only company from the southern hemisphere to make the finals of the prestigious Accelerator competition at SXSW in 2010. South By South West (SXSW) is held in Austin Texas and is one of the most crucial annual events for tech start-ups world wide. Two prominent kiwi companies partnered with Snapr to complete initial development - Cactuslab (www.cactuslab.com)  and ME&A mobile (mobile.macfarlaneengel.com). Prior to working on Snapr Cactuslab created Mobile Fotos, a popular third party iPhone app for Flickr, and World Surfer, an award winning location data app for GeoVector. From founders - “Like with Twitter there is something compelling about the photos being mostly public - it opens things up and allows people to visibly be part of something much bigger.” “Its cool to see your photo pop up on the map right after you have taken it, we hope that people will start taking lots of awesome photo’s with Snapr in order to make their hometown look good!” Handy Links  Snapr on the web: http://sna.pr Some of our favorite images on Snapr so far: Rowan’s fav’s: http://sna.pr/#/?st=fav&q=rowan&z=4 Eddie’s fav’s: http://sna.pr/#/NF5/?st=fav&q=edwardtalbot&z=4 Snapr for iPhone: Download Snapr for free from the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/snapr/id359528116?mt=8 For a full press info kit: http://sna.pr/docs/press/SNAPR_press-info-kit.zip To download publicity images: http://sna.pr/docs/press/press_kit_images.zip For a further info please send email to hello@snapr.me Snapr is live This is such wonderful news from my friend Ed. I signed up today.
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snaprdev:

Friday, 30th July 2010

Press Release: Snapr

Snapr Launch

Snapr, a new web service for sharing geotagged photos, officially launches today - http://sna.pr.

The service aims to give smart phone photos a better home on the web.

From the founders - “Snapr is a big public channel for people to share what’s happening in their life - we love the idea of a map with crowdsourced photos, you can look in anywhere, discover new people, and find neat things going on.”

“Mobile snaps are less about aesthetics, they are an immediate way to show what is going on where you are.”

Photos on Snapr are viewed via a map based interface. Snaps from the same place and time are naturally brought together.

An iPhone application allows users to upload photos, send tweets, and view the map on the go.

The early iPhone only version of Snapr was featured worldwide by Apple in the iTunes store. In its first month Snapr was downloaded more than 50 000 times despite only being a partial version of the service. 

In the run up to launch there are already photos from all over the world.

Snapr was founded by Rowan Wernham and Edward Talbot in 2009. 

Based in Auckland New Zealand Snapr will soon also operate from New York.

“Its going to be a bit Flight of the Concords heading to New York - two scruffy guys with no cash, but we can’t wait to get over there, it’s the center for location based start-ups right now”

Snapr was the only company from the southern hemisphere to make the finals of the prestigious Accelerator competition at SXSW in 2010. South By South West (SXSW) is held in Austin Texas and is one of the most crucial annual events for tech start-ups world wide.

Two prominent kiwi companies partnered with Snapr to complete initial development - Cactuslab (www.cactuslab.com)  and ME&A mobile (mobile.macfarlaneengel.com).

Prior to working on Snapr Cactuslab created Mobile Fotos, a popular third party iPhone app for Flickr, and World Surfer, an award winning location data app for GeoVector.

From founders - “Like with Twitter there is something compelling about the photos being mostly public - it opens things up and allows people to visibly be part of something much bigger.”

“Its cool to see your photo pop up on the map right after you have taken it, we hope that people will start taking lots of awesome photo’s with Snapr in order to make their hometown look good!”

Handy Links 

Snapr on the web: http://sna.pr

Some of our favorite images on Snapr so far:

Rowan’s fav’s: http://sna.pr/#/?st=fav&q=rowan&z=4

Eddie’s fav’s: http://sna.pr/#/NF5/?st=fav&q=edwardtalbot&z=4

Snapr for iPhone: Download Snapr for free from the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/snapr/id359528116?mt=8

For a full press info kit: http://sna.pr/docs/press/SNAPR_press-info-kit.zip

To download publicity images: http://sna.pr/docs/press/press_kit_images.zip

For a further info please send email to hello@snapr.me

Snapr is live This is such wonderful news from my friend Ed. I signed up today.

Snapr Development Web Log: ssshh … m.sna.pr is live

Just quietly you may have noticed that the mobile optimised version of our website is now live (m.sna.pr ).

If you head to http://sna.pr via a mobile browser you should be sent there.

It’s primarily tested for iPhone, but should work on a wide range of devices.

Word is there is that there…

One of the best Web 2·0 services out there, and it’s Kiwi. Go for it, guys: I can see massive potential for Snapr in the 2010s, and the business model has room for this evolution.