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Blurb Mobile for iPhone
Blurb has just released a new mobile publishing application called Blurb Mobile. Designed to enable easy and fast story creation using rich media content, the Blurb Mobile iPhone app enables easy media editing, including rotating, cropping, scaling, and drag and drop sequencing, plus geotagging, which can link the story to a location on a map. Available on iTunes, Blurb Mobile is free to download and each customer receives a story channel on Blurb.com/mobile to share their stories. In addition, Blurb Mobile Plus provides an in-app upgrade path for customers seeking additional photo, video and audio capability.
Blurb Press Release
Blurb launches mobile media story app
New mobile platform enables anyone to quickly compose and share media stories directly from their iPhone.
London, 29th April 2011 – Blurb, the global creative publishing platform today announced its new mobile publishing application, Blurb Mobile. Designed to enable easy and fast story creation using rich media content, including photos, videos and audio, the stories can be shared via the author’s existing social networking channels (including Facebook and Twitter), by email, or via their own Blurb channel.
Produced by individuals with a passion for capturing life’s moments, Blurb Mobile stories are engaging, inclusive, fun and instantly sharable. The Blurb Mobile iPhone app enables easy media editing, including rotating, cropping, scaling, and drag and drop sequencing, plus geotagging, which can link the story to a location on a map. Once the media has been composed, the author can add text and voice captions to each of their images to create a complete and highly personalised narrative. Additional personalisation includes the ability to choose from seven unique visual themes.
By introducing an easy to use, yet powerful interface, a Blurb Mobile story can range from sharing a personal moment with friends and family, to a real-time report from a front-line photojournalist covering breaking news.
“Blurb is known for two things: helping people to tell their stories visually and then enabling them to share their work directly with their audience,” said Eileen Gittins, CEO and Founder, Blurb.com. “To date, the medium of choice has been the printed book; but that’s all changing. With the release of Blurb Mobile, people will now be able to capture life’s great moments – large and small, in wonderfully rich story form and then share their stories on the fly, using any media on their phone including voice, video text and image. All in under 90 seconds.”
Putting media into motion means customers can quickly create, share and view personal stories that use photos, video and audio. Designed to encourage contextual experimentation on the part of the author and discovery by the audience, Blurb Mobile is about entertainment and personal storytelling that can be instantly shared with friends, family, or a broader audience.
“People are hardwired to tell stories. It’s how we make sense of the world. But where other photo apps treat images as individual frames, the new Blurb Mobile app enables people to sequence their pictures and video, and then add voice overs and text to form beautiful little stories that can be instantly shared with anyone, anytime,” added Gittins. “And this is just the beginning. We recognize that these stories are inherently social, so you will see our platform evolve to support social elements such as commenting, following, re-sharing and more.”
Currently available on the iPhone, Blurb Mobile is free to download and each customer receives a story channel on Blurb.com/mobile to share their stories. In addition, Blurb Mobile Plus provides an in-app upgrade path for customers seeking additional photo, video and audio capability. All stories can be made public or private.
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#1 Harald Johnson
Just downloaded the app to my iPod Touch and created a story in 5 mins. Then shared on my FB page and BlurbMobile at same time. Some problem with it deleting some of my screens and would also like to see ability to add text screens in addition to photos and videos. Otherwise, VERY COOL idea. Very cool indeed. And just in time for the wedding! !
7:54 pm - Thursday, April 28, 2011
#2 Chris Duval
I just downloaded this app....it is super cool. It really brings all the promise of the iphone to my desire to create short visual stories. Took me 3 min to create my first story...so, it is pretty simple....yet, it is very powerful in what it does.
Would love to be able to have following / sharing within the iphone itself...that would be cool.
Noted the last Mr. Johnson's comment about it not having text..I found that it has text captioning as well...just click on the "T" in the edit box....and presto, you have text captions tagged to the photo...that alone is cool...but, the audio is what does it for me. Wow.
8:44 pm - Friday, April 29, 2011
#3 Harald Johnson
Exactly, Chris. I'm going to whip up something about the Royal Wedding. But what I don't see is a way to do interstitial title screens in text (just titles, no images). But I'll do captions for now. Thanks for pointing that out.
9:00 pm - Friday, April 29, 2011
#4 Anders Krong
I'm loving it too. I'm a graphic designer so I've been experimenting with bringing in graphics from other apps. A lot of the drawing and painting apps have text capability, just save it to your camera roll before bringing it into Blurb.
in fact apple is featuring a bunch of those programs right now in the app store
10:18 pm - Friday, April 29, 2011
#5 Harald Johnson
Good idea, Anders. Hadn't thought of designing graphic screens and bringing those over to the iPod Touch.
11:07 pm - Friday, April 29, 2011
#6 LBeam
Very exciting app IMHO that begins to break new ground. The iPhone has all this capability, but, everyone seems to be stuck in photo filter / commenting mode. The idea of being able to bring together my phone's photos and video into a single story is tremendous. Being able to annotate my photos with text and audio is also cool. I actually find my eyes and mind looking at a scene or situation in a new way. Audio by itself is a new dimension for me as it introduces additional depth. I hope Blurb allows me to capture audio with the phone without opening the app. If I could import the files like they do it with photos and video that would be a time saver. In the mean time, it's way cool.
4:49 am - Sunday, May 8, 2011