When Orange annouced that they were holding an Orange NFC Awards competition we at LongTap thought it would be a great opportunity to get our creative heads on and come up with some ideas. Several were aired and then shot down, some were placed on the back burner and a couple were submitted. We are delighted that one of them made it through to the final with 19 other great ideas.
Our idea: Bloom NFC, your NFC gardening assistant
The video below does an excellent job of giving you an idea of what is to be expected.
Basically the NFC tag would be specific to a plant and let you know how to care for it, enable you to keep a plant diary (when you watered it, checked up on it), and if the Bloom NFC tag was to come with some seeds it would would be able to provide you with a timeline of what to expect when (very useful for veg), and again, how to care for the plant at the different stages. We will head over to Paris on the 11 June to present our app - in prototype form - to a panel of judges.. In the mean you can vote for us here: http://www.orange-nfc-awards.orange.com/les-nomines/projet-bloom
By: Lindsay Butler+
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Tuneably was one of our first apps, it was this app that popularised the sliding tab UI that Google now frequently uses.
The app was once described as “a must have app for music fans” -androidapps.com - so we thought it was about time to take this app to the next level.
How?
Well after the brilliant (award winning) Google TV / YouTube Hackathon we thought we would marry our new star DJ, Mr VJ with Tuneably. We are using the brilliant echonest api, some YouTube player magic and we will be making it a GoogleTV app so that the artist YouTube playlist can be played on your TV and controlled from the phone.
We are excited about it. It’s not quite ready yet, but we just had to share the news.
By: Lindsay Butler+
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We recently headed down to the “Silicon Roundabout” in London for a weekend of hacking with YouTube and GoogleTV at The Google Campus. We got to play with the YouTube player api and our own Logitech GoogleTV set top boxes, which was nice.
It was a great chance to meet a bunch of Google and YouTube people and fellow developers, loads of cool ideas around TV and two screen action. We came up with out own app that would win an award for best mash-up.
Hey Mr VJ used the YouTube, YouTube Player, EchoNest and Anymote APIs to create a Video DJ like no other. The app can run on a tablet, TV and of course a phone. The user can get Mr VJ to create a video playlist based of mood, style, or artist (similar). If the user happens to have a GoogleTV they could pair the tablet / phone to the TV and enjoy the video full screen whilst using the handheld device as a control to get another playlist going or to skip and pause video playing on the TV.
We were very honoured to be awarded a prize (A lovely Samsung Galaxy S3) for the best mashup. We are very excited about TV are keen to build on what we learnt during the event. Watch this space…
By: Lindsay Butler+
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StreetSpot.it can now be found in the Chrome Web Store, so what are you waiting for?
About StreetSpot.it
A crowd sourced gallery of street art StreetSpot is a crowd-sourced gallery of street art. Street art is often ephemeral and soon lost to the ravages of weather, time and councils - we hope that StreetSpot will provide a permanent home for the pieces you spot so that others can find out more about the art and their artists.
Anyone with a twitter account can add spots, and add tags to existing spots, with plenty more features in the pipeline. The site works on all modern browsers on all devices, from mobiles to TVs, and users with a touchscreen can swipe left and right to navigate between spots. Happy street spotting!
By: Lindsay Butler+
Read our article - How charities can use QR codes - we had published on the Guardian last week.
By: Lindsay Butler+
We are pleased to launch our new look - responsive - website. When LongTap started the focus was more on Android apps, but in the last year we have been busy pushing responsive websites, and the use of the - so called - mobile web. With that in mind we thought it was about time that our site reflected that.
We are a digital agency that is passionate about mobile. We are excited by the opportunities mobile gives us to create a great user focused experiences and / or services.
We hope you like the new site.
Lindsay & Chris
QRLme.com has been tweeted a lot by Spanish tweeters. Maybe this is a sign that they are QR code fans in Spain, whatever it is we are very grateful. Today the website HiMarketing.es did a very nice write up. Thanks.
Here is a video introduction of our new service, QRLme.com.
