Checkins now works withe the default theme in a little box. It's not the best place for it but the idea was to show it working alongside reports. Here's a screenshot from my development environment: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1938726/Screenshots/a3vb.png

All we need to make this work is a theme that will display media from checkins and it should be fine. We could white label and theme out the forms a bit on iPhone and Android to make this work a bit better. Pushing to other networks would have to be added on the platform, still.

We're all fans of Instagram and I think we can all agree that making reporting / checking in / sharing media as easy as Instagram is would be a big win across the board.

Brian

On Friday, February 3, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Erik Hersman wrote:

Chris, I love this idea. 

In particular, I'm a big fan of the ease that Instagram has of publishing directly to Instagram, as well as FB and Twitter.  Really, what you're describing is a lot like checkins, just making the text field and geo field non-mandatory.  (plus image filters).  :)

Checkins is still very much active, as is the new badge functionality.  I think you can even apply the checkins functionality to some of the new themes (Brian will have to confirm this), like Polaroid, I can imagine instead of map points you see images instead though.

Count me in on the braintrust for this one.  Happy to help out where I can.  

Also, I'll be in SF Feb 20-23, so would love to catch up in person with you again then, if you're around.

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On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Chris Blow wrote:

Hello,

Would anyone be interesting in collaborating on an instagram clone built in ushahidi?

I think it would be a good exercise because it could leverage the native mobile clients / or be a cool HTML5 mobile thing — but mostly I want it to be extremely streamlined and customized just to photos. We could hide virtually ever feature and carefully craft the few things we do expose. It could be ridiculously minimalist and, if I could just snap and upload, I would use it every day.  It doesn't have to be a perfect instagram clone, just an easy to setup photosharing hub with a one-click experience.

Perhaps it could be useful to corporate teams, or geeky families, or friendly darknets and people of the underground. (It would not have the huge instagram social network, but I'm attracted to the idea of a smaller hub of a few people ... :)

One problem we talked about at the meetup last in SF was the fact that Ushahidi proper is not really appropriate for day to day use. Also it is just not fun to think about disaster apps all the time. But we know that, in disasters, people use what they are used to. So maybe this would be something that would help bridge use between normal days and things are on fire days.

I think I really want to work on something with ushahidi that is just 100% fun this year.

I was reminded of the checkins feature which we were playing with at SXSW last year. That theme is freaking excellent. But I don't use checkin apps. (But I do use the hell out of instagram.)  Is that theme still active? Would it make sense for the ushahidigram theme to be a fork or extension of that one?

It should be trivial to build most of it, since it is largely a subset of features. And the social features (which are in Instagram but not Ushahidi) are quite simple.

Anyway, I am eager to make another theme in sass (CSS) and to work out my html5 brain-muscles. I went ahead and started pushing to a repository last night. Could use help with the mobile version. Anyone done an any mobile HTML5 features yet? If not, this would be a cool ways to start on a few features without rewriting all the JS and HTML at once ....  I started pushing here: https://github.com/unthinkingly/ushahidigram would be happy to see a fork and some contributors.

Or just tell me what you think please!

c

PS: Also, since most photosharing sites are generally run by assholes from Yahoo now, I want a way to buffer and broker my photos before they get sent to to them (eg flickr, instagram).  Kind of like this brokers to foursquare: http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/2012/01/22/privatesquare





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