05 | August | 2011 | Wha’ever!

I don’t get excited about apps and programs that often, but EyeEm got me.

Yesterday we had a bit of fun with that at the Twingly office. Via the Android or iPhone app you can either take pictures directly and post these. You can also upload some from your mobile phone. If you are using EyeEm via your notebook, you can also upload pictures from there. And then publish them as well on Facebook, Twitter, connect with Foursquare even to the locations with which you can tag your pics.

Like on other social platforms, you can easily follow other users and their photo streams. You can fav and tweet their pics (or your own ones) – and – really cool – you can post a reel with pictures on your blog via a widget. You should be able to at least – I haven’t figured out how. When I try to use the embed code, I only get the link to the pics, but no slide show. That might be due to some settings here on the blog, though.

Anyway, let me post the links to the streams then at least!

So these are my pics:

by Agaton

These are the ones of the peeps I follow:

by Caroline Drucker

And these are some for a certain location – London in this case:

by HelloKitty

So yes, you can follow certain topics as well, not just users!

Anton and I played with it yesterday – this is the Twingly-EyeEm-phoo-stream. Which will hopefully grow once all colleagues are back from holidays.

by Anmara

And if you want to know how other people have it at work, then maybe flick through this stream:

by Alice Regester

And what have you discovered so far ?

From Denmark!

Read about Yakkam in Dagens Nyheter today and that they do pretty helmets for cycling!

Never heard of Yakkay before, but I know that I am very tempted to buy one now.

And that me, who grew up without wearing a helmet (since it was neither recommended, nor were there any around in the early 80’s). As a grown-up I hated the look of these plastic bowls, and it didn’t make them more appealing when one saw mostly these “green”, alternative parents wearing them, who, when watching them, barely seemed to be able to cycle better than their 5-year-olds in front of them. Wearing a helmet did not really improving their skills either. Nasty comment, I know.

On the other hand, helmets clearly can safe lives. I experienced that first hand when my old boss back in London had a severe cycle accident there… .

As for myself, I often cycle too fast – especially downhills to the railway station, and there are often situations involving heavy breaking. That in autumn or winter time would be extremely hazardous, so I already though about getting some kind of protection before. But uuuuhhh, do these normal ones look ugly!

Now that I know of Yakkay, I think I will consider wearing a helmet more seriously from autumn onwards. These look extremely fashionable and are noticed immediately as “plastic bowls”. They give great protection while it still looks somewhat like a normal nice hat.

Definitely some good stuff for the “anti-helmet”-peeps among us, don’t you think?

I kind of like this one….