Uploading made easy with litl
The litl webbook is an Internet computer, meaning it gets content from the web instead of from a hard drive. Our Mediawall card, for example, streams photos and videos from photo sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, or Shutterfly. If you lose your litl webbook, you don't lose your photos. It's great.
Of course, users still need a way to get stuff to the web. So we had to find a way for them to get their photos and videos from their cameras online from their webbooks. And it meant doing it the litl way - without folks having to sort through nested folders or filenames that sound like missile codes (CIMG0187? DSC01342?).
Enter our latest update: easy uploading.
Just plug in your camera to the webbook's USB port, and litl opens up a slideshow of your photos and videos. Litl asks if you want to upload them to the web - if you do, it does; if you don't, you can keep viewing the slideshow. That's it. Watch the video to see just how easy it is.
If you are a litl webbook user, we have already updated your software - as usual - automatically and free of charge. We also added some performance upgrades to make your web experience faster and smoother. Enjoy!
Cupcakes and webbooks
We teamed up this week with our friends at BakeSpace to host a fun Boston-area food blogger meet-up.
BakeSpace's Babette Pepaj welcomed our food-loving guests while our Chuck Freedman demonstrated some of the litl webbook's more unique kitchen capabilities. For nourishment, we enjoyed a generous supply of Boston's best cupcakes from Sweet — delicious!
Thanks to all the bloggers who joined us and a special congratulations to Sliced and Diced's Hilary who left with a shiny new litl webbook under her arm. Let's do it again soon!
More whimsy, less “computery” stuff
When people think of computers, words like “fun” and “joyful” don’t usually come to mind. That’s too bad, we’d argue. We think computers and their software take themselves far too seriously. For the most part, they’re dry and soulless.
When we designed the litl webbook and the experience of using it, we envisioned something very different. We wanted smiles and an occasional chuckle to be part of the litl experience. These unexpected moments — we call them “joy drops” — are small and subtle, but collectively they sum up to a computing experience with more whimsy and less “computery” stuff.
We've already shared David Macaulay’s delightful instructional cards that help the world learn how litl works. Yesterday, our interaction design partner, Cooper, described two more of these playful moments in an insightful blog post. Check out their videos:
litl power off from Cooper Journal on Vimeo.
litl giggle from Cooper Journal on Vimeo.
Please let us know what you think, here, on Facebook, or on Twitter. We’d love to hear your thoughts: Can computers be fun and joyful?
Photo credit: Steve took it