Orange launches Pikeo new community Internet and mobile site
Rating: Peek a boo Flikr mobile alternative
Only days after Yahoo! makes its Flickr service mobile on the all new Go!, Orange launches its pikeo community site where users can discover and share photos. The service is free and from January 15, 2007 Yann Arthus-Bertrand will be exhibiting photos from his Agenda Utile diary.
Pikeo is available in French, English and Spanish. It also includes Microsoft’s Virtual Earth cartography service so that users can enrich a map of the world with their own photos… just as the Yahoo! Flickr service.
Discovery of photos is encouraged with a Tag search service and ShoZu provides the interface that allows mobile photos to get sent directly to the Pikeo virtual space.
The Pikeo site has a user-friendly interface based on Adobe Flex technology:
• the user interface is displayed on the screen without a scroll bar
• users choose the information they wish to keep on the screen via mini-windows
• most of the features can be accessed in one or two clicks and elements can be moved easily by means of the `drag and drop’ system.
User interface is crucial to the success of mobile picture communities. The inclusion of the Adobe Flex technology is an asset to the service and will make sure that uptake is driven by ease of use.
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