Eye-Fi Manager update adds support for Twitter and RSS

Late last month, Eye-Fi announced that its wares were finally supporting photo uploads to Apple's MobileMe and the AdoramaPix service, and now, we're seeing that its WiFi-enabled SD cards have a few more tricks up their sleeves. An Eye-Fi Manager update has opened up support for RSS feeds along with Twitter integration, enabling users to let their posse know when they've uploaded new photos for perusal. Additionally, the RSS support allows customers to "publish photos in a live real-time feed via RSS to the aggregator of their choice." Hope you're not a fan of post-processing.

[ace1000_x @ Oct 9th 2008 10:38AM]

Clever piece of kit :)

[Lifelion @ Oct 9th 2008 10:42AM]

Still no RAW support...

[CraigJ @ Oct 9th 2008 11:47AM]

Yeah. If this had RAW and Ad-Hoc support, I'd get one for my SLR. It would be really nice to be able to easily have pics show up on my laptop as I take them.

On the other hand, the SD slot on my laptop, or a $2 USB cable works just fine too...

[CraigJ @ Oct 9th 2008 11:51AM]

As a follow up, this is clearly targeted at consumers, not pros or prosumers. I think they are missing an opportunity by not rolling out a CF version targeted at pros, as well as an SD version...

[G. Tom @ Oct 9th 2008 1:05PM]

+1

[Doug @ Oct 9th 2008 4:06PM]

They're really missing a big potential market by not including RAW and ADHOC support. How many consumers are interested in spending $80 to avoid plugging in a point and shoot camera? But I sure know a lot of Pros who would love to add wireless capability to their SLRs.

[pball_inuyaha @ Oct 9th 2008 10:48AM]

I'm still amazed they can fit wireless in such as small thing, granted the memory only takes up a microsd sized area or less of the card.

Any one care to explain the basics of how this works? does it connect to a wireless network then dump your pics on your computer and more?

[Mike @ Oct 9th 2008 12:06PM]

yep pretty much. there are 3 different kinds of cards

check it all out at www.eye.fi (no .com at end)

[FuzzyCat @ Oct 9th 2008 10:55AM]

Can you use this to upload to your own server or can you only use it with services they add? Would seem rather limiting otherwise.

[CraigJ @ Oct 9th 2008 11:49AM]

Yes, you can, but you need to be connected via a WAP. This does not have support for Ad-Hoc.

[clewley @ Oct 9th 2008 10:57AM]

So this device has a built in GPS chip? How does it know where to geotag, or is the tag from where you are uploading from?

[FinDog @ Oct 9th 2008 11:27AM]

How about an Eye-MAX (as in WiMAX) card. Instant city-wide uploads assuming you're in one of the WiMAXed cities.

[Nick Catalano @ Oct 9th 2008 11:44AM]

No need, just go into a McDonalds and start your camera up

[pball_inuyaha @ Oct 9th 2008 11:45AM]

In case you haven't seen a WiMAX card, they are quite large compared to what an SD card is. All I can say is maybe some day

[FinDog @ Oct 9th 2008 2:13PM]

Yeah I've seen em. I was just looking ahead.

[Pixel @ Oct 9th 2008 11:26AM]

What they don't stress in the marketing is you have to be connected to a NETWORK! You can't just send to your laptop out in the field.

[EJB @ Oct 9th 2008 11:44AM]

Skyhook's Wi-Fi Triangulation is used, not traditional GPS.

http://vimeo.com/1258835?pg=embed&sec=1258835

[jollyllama @ Oct 9th 2008 1:19PM]

I agree this is pretty neat from a tech perspective, but (as engadget points out) it's pretty worthless to me to upload to the web directly from my camera. Here's a hint to all you aspiring photographers: Nothing you see published is straight out of the camera, and if you're not running even a basic round of levels corrections before you post to the net, you're doing yourself a disservice.

[dennis @ Oct 9th 2008 1:23PM]

pretty neat