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Our friend Vodafone has kindly asked us to use Mobypicture in their roaming product campaign.
This resulted in a really nice commercial about how you can, now for only € 2 per day, send up to 20 Mobypicture postings from your holiday destination. 
This commercial was broadcasted on Dutch Television over the last few weeks and is at the moment visible throughout the country on billboard and other outdoor advertising.
Below you can watch the commercial and see the billboard design.
If you Spot The Moby Campaign, please Moby it using #stmc! (preferably with yourself in the reflection)
And add the link in the comments!!
http://moby.to/vo8m57 (by @thomasdral)
Thanks Vodafone for this great opportunity!
Shoot and share, now also when you are on your vacation!
Posted in Mobypicture news.
This week we will be presenting MobyNow to the Creative Industry.
Together with Tribal/DDB we’ve launched www.feedthecreatives.com.
This platform aggregates all the social media around the Cannes Lions.
We’ve developed some new features and are now capable of filtering certain elements from the shared contextual postings and can present that in different way.
We for instance extract all the YouTube links from the shared social media and have built a Cannes Lions social video feed from this. This shows the in realtime shared videos on YouTube.
Another new feature are the blog streams. We filter the Cannes related blogposts from a big list of advertising blogs, making the content even more specific.
You can of course help feed the Admen. Just sign up for the platform, configure your Twitter client to use Mobypicture and Shoot ‘n Share!
If you want me to present the possibilities for your campaigns or corporate communications/events, just send me a line and we’ll schedule a quick meeting sur la plage!
posting credits: Jeremy jordan
Posted in MobyNow, Mobypicture news.
There is a lot of controversy around the usage of shared social photos and videos and all the different platforms at the moment.
Our views have always been pretty clear on this and we’ve just added the paragraph below to our ToS to further clarify our policy:
Content Ownership
All rights of uploaded content by our users remain the property of our users and can in no means be sold or used by Mobypicture or affiliated third party partners without consent from the user.
This means Mobypicture will NEVER sell the rights to your shared photos and videos. Your content is yours!
(we’re actually the only service which doesn’t even show advertising next to your shared adventures, see the rest of our USP’s here – http://bit.ly/whymoby)
Creative Commons
For MobyNext (our soon to be released new Mobypicture platform) we’ve implemented the Creative Commons Licenses. This will help our users manage the rights even better.
Media Portability
We’ve also secretly 
been developing a service called Mediaportability.com. This service allows you to move all your content from and to the most important social sites automatically. You can also use the service to move your Mobypicture postings to any other site or download these to your computer or iPad.
If you’re interested in mediaportability.com sign up for your beta invite here!
Update for developers and other interested (20th of April)
We’ve added an API call to get the ToS. This enables app developers to present their users to the Terms of Service of the sharing service they have selected (or was preselected). This gives the users more insights into what to expect. We advise all sharing services to add this call to make things more transparent!
Posted in Mobypicture news.
Mobypicture launched a unique Mobynow platform especially for TNW, now.thenextweb.com. Read all about it at our blog or the TNW one.
When you use #TNW2011 in your Moby postings, Tweets and FB status updates, your messages will be published directly on this platform. This year, you will be a publisher, too.
But there is more: (drum roll)
Posted in Mobypicture news.
MobyNow helps The Next Web Conference to gain control of the online conversation around the conference. Our real-time technology platform aggregates all #tnw updates from social sites and services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the blogosphere, but most importantly it funnels the traffic from shared postings to the The Next Web platform.
How can you be a part of this:
All you will need to do is just use Mobypicture for posting your adventures. You can use Mobypicture from most Twitter apps, many photo apps, sites and services. Check our Help section for setup and usage tips!
Posted in MobyNow, Mobypicture news.
As of today around 10 am (CET), Mobypicture has been down because Amazon Web Services is experiencing problems with connectivity in some of their Availability Zones, amongst the one hosting our servers.
Besides taking us down with them, also Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and many other services are down or experiencing heavy troubles.
Read more:
Mashable
Techcrunch
You can follow our tweets to stay informed or keep an eye on http://mobypicture.com or our status page.
Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re aware of the implications of relying on cloud services and are designing a more redundant way to ensure our up time.
Hosting companies can stop emailing us with propositions. We love Amazon and their services and because of their scalable proposition we’ve been able to grow lean and mean. We trust in a prompt recovery.
We’ll keep you updated. Hold your Mobys
Update 21:21
After hours of hard work we managed to get back online with a series of workarounds, Amazon AWS is still having severe issues with an ETA of several hours.
We changed key elements of our infrastructure and are running on a degraded setup of our database servers at the moment, expect degraded performance for the next couple of hours. We will monitor everything closely until all issues are resolved. We are truly sorry for not being there today.
Update #2: Our workarounds
Because most of the troubles originated from EBS and all our database servers run on multiple EBS blocks in a RAID configuration, we were hit the hardest in that area. Luckily one of our slave database servers survived, which we then promoted to one of the masters. Starting new EBS backed instances was at that time still impossible. We started non-EBS backed instances which we must replace with the faster EBS backed when all troubles are over.
At that time we were running in a development environment on a platform with degraded performance, with one big issue: ELB, our loadbalancer, was still offline. We were luckily already using our own loadbalancing solution HAproxy, to handle API connections and we migrated our webserver architecture to that as well.
So at the moment we are not as scalable as we would like to be and have a slight degraded performance, mostly noticable on our MobyNow platforms, but are running smoothly since 21:00 hours CET yesterday. We expect to upgrade to full performance somewhere today and add our scalability when all AWS issues are resolved.
Posted in Mobypicture news.
We’re very jealous of everybody attending the great SXSW festival these upcoming days in Austin, Texas.
Looks like there will be some cool startups and new initiatives launching this year. Moby will also be there, but virtually!
We launched a MobyNow platform for everybody who can’t be there. It aggregates all social media updates, features trending topics and blogposts of the media covering the event and lets users join in on the conversation simply by using hooking up their own social media accounts directly from the shoutbox.
Posted in MobyNow, Mobypicture news.
… takes small steps.
Today I stumbled upon an amazing video.
Watch it all the way! #mustsee
It emphasizes a lot of things in life are a matter of perspective.
When you’re running with a new idea and are busy enthusiastically persuading people to believe in the idea as well present small steps instead of 180 degree angles.
Choose the arguments you want to fight for carefully, it is not important to score your point all the time, just on those occasions when it really matters to you.
Posted in Mobypicture news.
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
And the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
And the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
When you share your adventures with your friends it is not just about sending.
You want to feel how they react. You love their comments, remarks. likes and imagine they way they smile or laugh.
This interaction makes you want to share more and lets you feel your friendships.
Mobypicture has as its main goal helping people share their adventures in the easiest, most convenient and context rich possible way. That includes the interaction I mentioned above.
In the redesigning process your friends and the interaction becomes more prominent and we’re introducing new features on our site, in our apps and in the APIs.
We start by making it easy to find your friends.
Posted in Mobypicture news.
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