Thwapr is meant for private sharing, but a public sharing option is in the works. Now they want to open up new video experiences on mobile phones. Thwapr’s CTO Eric Hoffert worked on the original Quicktime team at Apple, as did COO Duncan Kennedy. Older Blaackberries would get the video as a file download, and Thwapr can even deliver videos as rough animated gif images for phones which can’t handle anything else.
On the iPhone, they come as progressive downloads which open up in the Quicktime player. Videos are delivered a variety of ways based on the type of phone the viewer is using. Each mobile video needs to be 20 MB or less for now. They can see the shared photo or video and “Thwap” back a response, creating a conversation around the image. The recipients get a text message with a link which opens up their mobile browser and takes them to Thwapr’s mobile website. As you add contacts to Thwapr, you can select them by name. After you sign up, you can email your photos or videos to Thwapr, and then share them from there to any mobile phone that supports links in text messages. Thwapr already works with 165 phones, from iPhones and Androids to Blackberries and Samsungs. A new service that just launched in beta called Thwapr seeks to solve this problem by letting you simply uploading videos from your phone to the Web and then texting or emailing a link to your friends. The iPhone tries to make it easier by letting you upload directly to YouTube, but what if you want to share a video privately? Sending videos between phones is cumbersome. Sharing videos on mobile phones is still a pain. Sharing videos on the Web is easy: Upload to YouTube or Facebook, send out a link.
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