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March 03, 2008
Zannel Opens Developer API
By Zannel has announced that it is launching an open API
that will allow developers to leverage the functionality of Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging (IMM) platform to create media-rich mobile applications, widgets and mashups.
Zannel explains that with access to the IMM platform, developers can take advantage of a “rich messaging system that can deliver text, picture, and video messages across SMS, MMS, and email systems and format them for web browsers or mobile devices.”
Indicating that the Zannel Open API is built on top of the same robust platform that powers Zannel’s web and wap products, Harry Evans, vice president of technology at Zannel, said in a statement, “We look forward to seeing all the creative ways developers leverage these capabilities.”
Evans pointed out that along with the Open API, Zannel has also expanded its list of export feeds, which will enable users to publish their mobile video, picture, and text updates to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook (News - Alert), Myspace, and Blogger among others.
Also, users can add custom tags to Flickr feeds, and Facebook feeds can update user status or media albums based on the content contained in the message, and friends can view these updates on the web or their mobile phones.
”Our team has been working together on mobile media technology for years, and we are excited to share our capabilities with the broader developer community and help everyday users get more out of their camera phones -- to capture an image once and have it be viewable everywhere,” commented Braxton Woodham, CTO at Zannel.
Zannel is a provider of Instant Media Messaging service that enables people to share what “they’re seeing and feeling” through video, pictures and text in real time, from their mobile phone or PC. Also with Zannel’s lifecasting network, users can also follow friends, meet new friends, and watch videos on mobile and the web.
Anshu Shrivastava is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
that will allow developers to leverage the functionality of Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging (IMM) platform to create media-rich mobile applications, widgets and mashups.
Zannel explains that with access to the IMM platform, developers can take advantage of a “rich messaging system that can deliver text, picture, and video messages across SMS, MMS, and email systems and format them for web browsers or mobile devices.”
Indicating that the Zannel Open API is built on top of the same robust platform that powers Zannel’s web and wap products, Harry Evans, vice president of technology at Zannel, said in a statement, “We look forward to seeing all the creative ways developers leverage these capabilities.”
Evans pointed out that along with the Open API, Zannel has also expanded its list of export feeds, which will enable users to publish their mobile video, picture, and text updates to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook (News - Alert), Myspace, and Blogger among others.
Also, users can add custom tags to Flickr feeds, and Facebook feeds can update user status or media albums based on the content contained in the message, and friends can view these updates on the web or their mobile phones.
”Our team has been working together on mobile media technology for years, and we are excited to share our capabilities with the broader developer community and help everyday users get more out of their camera phones -- to capture an image once and have it be viewable everywhere,” commented Braxton Woodham, CTO at Zannel.
Zannel is a provider of Instant Media Messaging service that enables people to share what “they’re seeing and feeling” through video, pictures and text in real time, from their mobile phone or PC. Also with Zannel’s lifecasting network, users can also follow friends, meet new friends, and watch videos on mobile and the web.
Anshu Shrivastava is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
