Cooliris Redesigns LiveShare for Mobile and Web
A few days ago Cooliris announced the launch of its redesigned LiveShare service. With the LiveShare app, users can send messages, post photos and photo collages, or share your location. Billed as ‘beautiful messaging for mobile and web’ the service presents photos in a smart-looking layout, and you can add messages or location too if you like. The app is capable of batch photo uploads [1], which is pretty handy as well.
2-3日前、Cooliris は新デザインの LiveShare サービスのローンチを発表した。LiveShare アプリを使えば、ユーザはメッセージを送ったり、写真や写真のコラージュを投稿したり、自分の位置を共有したりできる。「携帯とウェブで使える美しいメッセージングアプリ」と呼ばれるこのサービスでは、写真をスマートなレイアウトで表示してくれ、好みに応じてメッセージや位置情報も追加できる。写真の一括送信（注1）にも対応しており、非常に手軽だ。
Personally, it took me a little while to wrap my head around exactly what LiveShare was trying to do with this app – after all, it does many things, and I couldn’t really see any potential problem that this was solving, at least not for me. But admittedly I’m a little picky and somewhat minimalist with the services I adopt.
While there’s certainly lots of overlap between the functions of LiveShare and other social sharing services (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Path, etc) one interesting feature of LiveShare is that it lets you share with other people who don’t have the app installed, as long as they have an email address or a US phone number [2]. While I wouldn’t make use of this feature, I expect someone of an older generation might appreciate this, as they’re likely to have friends who adopt slowly to new social networks [3]. On this point, Cooliris’s APAC director, Derek Tan, tells us:
We still see people communicating outside of Facebook as family members may not be on it. Also, on Facebook a communication among a smaller group that includes different elements like text, photos and locations is still very broken. So, unlike any other app out there instead of siloing text messaging, photo sharing and other communication features, the all-new LiveShare is built from the ground up to seamlessly combine these elements into a visually exciting experience across mobile and web for consumers who value speed and beauty.
For those who already have a wide network on Facebook, you can login with those credentials and post directly to the social network from the LiveShare app.
We’ve written about the service before, and its capabilities for allowing groups of people to contribute to a single photo collection, which can be very useful for event coverage. While that function is still in the web version of LiveShare, it’s not in the current mobile version – although I’m told “there are thoughts” that it might be added soon.
In any case, don’t hesitate to give it a try to see if it’s a good fit for you. You can download it from the iTunes Store. Check out their demo video below:
サービス内容に関して前にも掲載したが、色々な人達が写真を投稿できるので、イベントの取材等にはたいへん便利である。LiveShareのウェブバージョンには入っているその機能は、最新のモバイルバージョンにはまだ入ってないが、機能追加の考えはあるとは聞いているので、近々そうなるだろう。
とにかく、自分に合うか気軽に試してみること。iTunes Storeでダウンロードできるので、まずは下記のデモ画像を要確認。
以前、私たちはこのサービスについて書いたことがあるが、それは複数名が1つの写真アルバムに投稿できる機能に関するもので、イベントの報道等で非常に役に立つ。この機能は今もウェブ版の LiveShare にあるが、携帯の最新版にはまだない。ただし、将来の追加が「検討されている」とは聞いている。
いずれにせよ、もし自分にぴったりだと思うなら、ぜひ使ってみてほしい。iTunes ストアからダウンロードできる。デモ映像はこちらから：
1. Strangely, the batch upload photo does not work unless you have ‘location permissions’ enabled, which seems like an unusual restriction to me. I’ve asked Cooliris, and they’re looking into it. ↩
2. International support is coming soon, says LiveShare on its website. ↩
3. I hope I’m not being ‘age-ist’ here. But for example, my own parents don’t communicate much outside of email. ↩
「友達がいるだろうから」の後に（注3）を追加してください。書きもれました。
追加了解しました。ありがとうございます。