This means that any content or app can be mirrored from your iPhone and iPad to your Epson smart glass.

Then, we learned from DJI Drone enthusiasts about below exciting new use case:

When people are flying drones to take video or photo from the sky above, they need to be able to watch the drone flying above them; at the same time, they also need to look

down on their iPhone / iPad to see the real-time video view from the drone’s camera. The constant need to look up at the flying drone and look down at the iPhone/iPad showing the real-time camera view

is a big challenge. With Epson smart glass running Mirroring360, people can keep the flying drone in the line of sight while also viewing the drone’s video feed directly in the center of the smart glasses.

Below are video and photo of the new possibility. Fun and exciting!

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Start your Free Trial today, and Save over 75% for a Limited Time (until 08/31/2014)!

For a limited time, we are offering each license for only $6.99 (regular price is $29.99). Bulk purchases are also available (please contact sales@splashtop.com for pricing).

Start your free 7-day trial today http://www.mirroring360.com/

Going to the leading education conference ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education)in Atlanta?

Come check out Mirroring360 and Splashtop Classroom at these booths:

AT&T – Booth 3348 – Attend the Splashtop session Sunday 12:30 – 1:30 to listen to Thomas Deng, Splashtop co-founder

HoverCam – Booth 1854 – see Splashtop in action with the world’s first SuperSpeed USB 3.0 document camera, SOLO 8! Thanks again for all your support,-Splashtop Team

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With Splashtop Classroom, teachers now have the ability to stream content and apps, whether from a Mac or PC, to every student’s device, including iPads, Chromebooks, or a Windows or Mac using a Chrome browser. Once connected, students can view, control and annotate over lesson content directly from their mobile device.

Splashtop Classroom is perfect for teachers and instructors that want to engage the entire room!

SPECIAL PROMOTION!! We are running a promotion through May 31st 2014. Buy Splashtop Classroom for a special price of $10/teacher/year! Ask your school IT/Admin team to start a district-wide trial today and invite you to join!

For more information, or to start a trial, please visit the Splashtop Classroom page – www.splashtop.com/classroom – or come visit our booths at FETC (1004) and the ATIA (1AS) shows in Orlando this week!

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5 stars

All support engineers should really try this. (Good investment for company towards the engineers too) Now I can carry only an iPad Mini during my standby weeks. It exceeded my expectation on a 3G connection! Believe me, I can do the work on my 3y old iphone 4 too.

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In addition, according to a recent report from Cisco, there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices by 2017 that people will use for their personal and work lives. The meteoric growth of BYOD in the workplace has created significant challenges for today’s enterprise. Mobile workers want to be fully productive on their mobile devices; however the business applications they need are not all available on mobile form factors. In my recent blog post on SiliconANGLE, I outline how enterprises can maneuver around these challenges and successfully support a truly mobile workforce despite a rapidly changing mobile landscape.
The Three Reasons Enterprises Are Not As “Mobile Ready” As They Think

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“Controlling a PC or Mac, iPad-Style” by Walt Mossberg

Kurt McFarlane: “I’ve been using Splashtop for over 2 years and I love it. Keep up the good work.”

Wayne Braun: “I also use Splashtop and have for 2+ years. Splashtop has been getting better and quicker with every update. Splashtop is definitely a more competitively priced product. A great product, keep up the good work and continuous improvements!”

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5 stars by Damostat
In a word, AMAZING
If you don’t have this app, you’re missing out. Ever wanted a portable windows 7 or mac machine on your iPad? Easy, get this app. Ever wanted to play top rated games without having to leave the comfort of your bed? Easy, get this app. How about a decent drawing app, something to sketch with on the go? GET THIS APP. I can’t say it enough really.

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Jacob here — It’s not often that you hear from me on the blog, but I wanted to go through some of the new features we launched today and Sol/Beach are not at their computers ;-)

We’re excited to re-launch challenges.. we know a lot of you have been missing them. The main difference now is that YOU get to vote on who you think should win everyday! Any time you record a response to the challenge, that video will have a little vote box next to it anywhere it appears on the site. Other 12ers can then click on the “vote” button and give you 1-3 votes, depending on how much they liked the video.

Here’s the catch – you can only give out 3 votes per day. You can give all three to one video or spread it out evenly and give 1 point to 3 different videos – It’s up to you. You can always go back and change your votes too if you see something later on in the day that kicks total ass – just go back to the video you voted on before and it will let you set your vote back down to zero or change it to something else.

At the end of the day (midnight PST), the voting for that day’s challenge will stop and a winner will be assigned based on your votes. You can only vote for the current day’s challenge, but the number of votes will be visible after voting closes.

In addition, we’ve made some other minor improvements to the challenge system:

• New challenge bar that appears at the top of your home page
• Responding to the challenge no longer requires a re-load of the page – just click “respond” and go!
• We’ve now got a leaderboard for the challenges if you want to see who’s winning throughout the day.
• Challenges can now be sent via your mobile phone. Just make the subject of your MMS message “challenge” and we’ll do the rest.
• You’ll also be able to see the daily challenge question and submit responses from your iPhone with an update that we’ll be releasing later this week.

Sol wants me to mention that “This is all in good fun” and “There’s no need to get competitive”…. yet.

That’s it! As always, let us know if you notice any bugs and feel free to send feedback our way (I’m @jakey12 on Twitter)

So.. what are you waiting for? Go answer the challenge and vote for your favorites!

Hey Everyone!  We don’t use our blog enough to deliver news so I’m going to take this opportunity to write a blog post to announce that you can now record your 12seconds posts using the best, most popular and completely superior Twitter client – TweetDeck.

It couldn’t be more simple.  Enter your 12seconds credentials after you hit the “12” button in the header of the application.  Not only will you be able to view all that great 12seconds content, you’ll also be able to record a new post from your webcam by hitting the record button on either the top or the bottom of the column.

It’s our singular goal to provide an application that makes both creating and watching short, pithy videos incredibly easy.  TweetDeck allows us to fulfill that goal by creating an environment whose purpose is to make more sense out of our increasingly busy socialmediasphere (I made up a word!).  In other words, those who use TweetDeck will love it even more and if you haven’t downloaded TweetDeck yet…you really should.

All versions of TweetDeck will be updated over the next week or two with this functionality built in, but if you want to play with it right now you have to download the latest version right from the TweetDeck site.  So go download it and let us know what you think!

The 12seconds authoring API

It’s time for us to release our authoring API for 12seconds.  This means that you can integrate recording 12seconds into your site the same way TweetDeck has done.  12seconds is great fun on our site but allowing others to embed the recording functionality has limitless potential.  Video commenting, video contests, video story collaborations, video music mashups!  Whatever you want to do with it, have at it!

If you want access to this API, you have to let us know so we can get you set up.  You’re going to need a parnter ID.   You can find more information about the authoring API as well as contact us to receive a partner ID here.

Alright, get out there and make some 12s!

Hey social media expert types, here’s a little tip from your friends at 12seconds about profile images. If you’re creating a social network or other social application that allows the user the ability to upload a personal profile image, make sure that the default image is as stupid as possible. Many sites still try to make their default icons generic or even attractive. Many people like the brown twitter icon for instance. Others become apathetic when they see some boring grey box with a simple face or emoticon, such as what Yahoo uses.

The 12seconds default profile image is stupid. It is actually a photo of me (Beach) when I was about 16. I made it black and white and slapped a 12 on top. Who wants that guy as your profile image? That’s right no one.

A little story about this image. It was 1986 or something. I was living in Santa Cruz, but going to high school in Aptos, which is a little south of Santa Cruz. Aptos High was having their annual “Kowabunga Beach Ball” dance. You see, Aptos, like Santa Cruz, is a beach town. Because of this, we have to endure clever ideas such as calling a dance the “Kowabunga Beach Ball”. For similar reasons, and because my last name is Beach, I had to endure being called things such as “Beached Whale”, “Beach Butt”, or “Nude Beach”.

On this occasion in 1986, my friends and I decided not to attend this Beach Ball, because that was what other people did. We were happy to drive around aimlessly tipping garbage cans over and stealing garden gnomes. However even this kind of thing gets boring… so that evening, we decided to crash the dance. Doing so was easier than we expected. And we learned something important about crashing events, all you have to do is look like you know what you’re doing. In future years, this got us back stage at Oingo Boingo, REM, and U2 concerts among others. It also got us beer.

So we snuck in, had a photo taken and snuck out. In all this took about 5 minutes. And now this photo is used as your default profile image. You are welcome! Everything about this photo is stupid. How we took it, why we took it, and who we were. Because of this, it is the ideal photo to use for a default profile image.

I should mention that there are other 12seconds users in this photo. dickhollywood is the guy in the blue plaid shirt and thund3rbox is squatting in the pink jeans flashing the odd gang sign. And of course I am holding the beach ball in all my glory.

I hope this little story has given you something to think about as you create your social media experiences. Sure, you can link to other services like flickr or facebook to use their profile images, but remember that people need an incentive to do so.

Since the last post, we went to the Crunchies and got runner up for Best Bootstrapped Startup. That was cool. It was nice that Dave McClure was giving out the award since he was one of the first people we spoke with after we launched the pre-alpha for last years SXSW. He gave us great advice over BBQ ribs on a rainy day in Austin. He said to never tire of your focus but get plenty of rest because it’s good to be awake if you can… At least that’s what we think he said. It was hard to tell because of all the rib eating and stuff.

So here we are. Still bootsrappin’ and still in Santa Cruz. The title of this post is “Santa Cruz is Super!” and here’s why. In Santa Cruz, they write a big story about you for the front of the business section of the local paper just for getting runner up for an award! Beat that San Fracisco or San Jose! It’s not gonna happen. But it does in Santa Cruz. Check it out: 12seconds wins runner-up at 2008 Crunchies.

This is a special place. The people are kind and supportive. I was actually part of the first internet startup here in town. IUMA. It was 1993. We’d get people walking in off the street asking what they could do to help. We’d also get people coming in and asking if we were the Internet. But people were so cool. It feels very similar now, especially because of NextSpace where we keep a tiny office. NextSpace is an awesome c0-working space right down town. It houses dozens of engineers, designers, lawyers, service providers, architects, and startups. Our friends UserVoice are right down the hall. It’s an exciting place. We get people stopping by all the time to ask us questions or to offer their help. It really feels like home.

Santa Cruz is 45 minutes away from Sunnyale, and 80 minutes away from downtown SF. It’s just close enough to stay connected, but far away enough to stay sane. It’s a good place to be, I recommend it.

“The video I shot with 12seconds.tv is a good example of “real” entrepreneurialism that will lead to good things for all of us.”

• We’re releasing our very own iPhone application to the app store
• We’ve redesigned the entire site
• We’re opening up registration (no more invites)
• We’re now in beta status

The iPhone application

We’ve been busy bees on this application.  You can’t record video on your iphone, right?  This application changes that.  With the 12seconds iPhone app you take 3 pictures, record some audio and post it.  We’ll turn it into a video and post it for your friends to see.  There’s no other app in the app store that outputs video so we’re pretty excited about it.  It will cost only 99 cents.  It’s a great value and a great way to support your friends at 12seconds.  Here’s a short video demonstration.

The Redesign

So, we’ve gone ahead and redesigned the site.  We’ve grabbed a lot of feedback from you, our dedicated 12ers and think we’ve come up with a beautiful redesign.  The goal was to make 12seconds a better product.  Here are some of the key changes:

• New, awesome look (pink and brown never looked so beautiful)
• Inline video playback
• Inline commenting
• Your “home” will tell you when you have new videos (auto-updating)
• Hide or Show the recorder whenever you’d like
• New navigation tools (an easier interface to navigate)

Open Registration and Beta Status

It’s time for us to move forward.  We’ve had a great few months in alpha.  Hundreds of thousands of people have watched 12second videos.  We’ve been able to integrate with great partners and participate in some incredible events.  We’ve seen 12seconds used for status updates, citizen journalism, short song writing, movie reviews, jokes, challege responses, weather reports, cigar reviews, wine reviews, cupcake reviews, daily lunch specials, name that tune and millions of other creative uses.

The time has come to open up and share 12seconds with the rest of the world.  Now anyone can register and join our beta program.  So, please, invite your friends and let’s build a rich community of people 12ing all over the world.  12seconds is easy, fun and engaging.  We’ve got the best community on the Internet.

So, that’s it.  As of today we’re retiring the Alpha user award.  It’s done and will never be given out again.  All existing and new users will receive the Beta user award.

Thanks very deeply for being part of our community.  Here’s to an exciting 2009.

We are working away on a bunch of cool stuff for you, as you probably know, but it’s not quite ready. Soon baby soon!

So to celebrate 12/12, go to 12seconds and answer the challenge! Everyone who does will get a special award! Yay!

And we promise… awesome things are happening. Happy 12/12!

We are just now recovering from the 12seconds & UserVoice launch party! It was a great time! Hundreds of friends, family, and people from the community showed up, brought food and drink, and danced their asses off. It wasn’t just our party, it was also a showcase for NextSpace, our friendly neighborhood co-working space. Let it be known… NextSpace can handle a party!

The best thing about the party was seeing so many 12seconds users in person! It’s always a bit of a shock and surprise to meet people face to face that you’ve only known through tiny video. We hear that the party bus from SF was raging before they even arrived. 

Thank you so much to everyone that turned out in person and in spirit! This was the first of many… and yes it’s true that 12 didn’t actually “launch” anything official Thursday… but don’t touch that dial, good things are on the way!

Here is a video tour of NextSpace from Scoble. He showed up early and had a look around. It was great to see him!

And here are some random 12s that were recorded during the evening… 

Mindi gets wild!

Scoble!

DJ 2000

Having a Wonderful Time!

The coolest f-ing person ever!

Very Cool!

Jacob was the man!

Also thank you to all the well wishers on our challenge! Yay!

It’s gonna smell like High School B.O. before we’re done partying.

You’ve seen a lot of web-based election guides out there trying to get your attention.  Here’s one more.

As you know, we’ve been pushing pretty hard to get ready for Election ’08.  We’re partnering with Current who will be broadcasting election day news and happenings.  Part of what they’re broadcasting is going to be created by us, the 12ers of the world who know how to keep it pithy.  We’re also partnering with Flixwagon who will be providing the mobile video software.

The Night Before

Before you set out on Election Day you should set up your phone with Flixwagon.  This is mobile streaming software and it’ll allow you to catch those moments on the street.  Our main man, Jivebotic, created this guide with explicit instructions on how to set up Flixwagon for your iPhone.  Setting up for Nokia phones is easy and prompted after you register at Flixwagon.   Link your Flixwagon and 12seconds account on your settings page. Once you’ve done that, go give your final opinion on election day, at the 12second Challenge.

The next day, you’ll be one of three places: at work, voting or at an election night party…

At Work

While you’re at work, you should keep a browser open on Current.  With a tab on Current, you can get the very latest info.  However, your job isn’t just to watch the news, you need to make the news too.  Give and get reactions from people you work with by taking the 12second Challenge throughout the day or tagging any video with the word electionday (one word).  Some of those reactions will almost certainly end up on Current’s site and even on TV.

Voting

As you journey to go vote and you have a mobile device that does video please document the experience.  Find that journalist deep down inside and tell people that you’re reporting on election day for 12seconds.tv.  Ask them how they’re feeling and whose going to win.  When you get to the polling place be careful not to video in states where that’s not allowed.  Here’s a guide that can tell you if you’re allowed to record your vote.  Just to give you an idea about how important it is to document our democracy, check out this site.

After you voted, tell us how it felt on 12seconds.  Anyone who tags their 12 with ivoted will get an “i voted” 12seconds award.  Make sure you also tag it with electionday so that those people over at Current can see it too.  :)

Election Night Party

Current told us that the goal was to create the ultimate election party – a two screen event that involves Television on one screen and a way to interact with that TV, your computer, on another screen.  This will be an incredibly interactive experience.  In fact, the anchor(s) from Current will ask questions which can then be answered via webcam on the Current site, powered by 12seconds.  Some of those answers will appear on TV.  Get on TV at your election party and participate.

Tune your TV to Current on one of these channels:

Comcast (Channel 107 nationwide)
DirecTV (channel 366 nationwide)
Dish Network (channel 196 nationwide)
Verizon, AT&T, BSkyB (channel 183)
Virgin Media (channel 155)
Sky Italia (channel 130)

Thanks 12ers for kicking ass and getting out there and voting!