glmps: the blog

A billion dollar idea … Sharing a glmps on Instagram

Did you know that you can share a glmps on the popular photo sharing service Instagram? Since glmps captures a photo we can easily send that photo to the Instagram app with a click of a button. Here is how to do it:

- After capturing a glmps tap the Share Options menu and toggle the icon that looks like the capture button in the Instagram app. It’s the third one on the top row next to the Twitter icon.

- After posting the glmps and it has completely uploaded a menu will popup prompting you to ‘Open in “Instagram”’. Click this button or select the ‘Open in…’ option to select other services to share too such as Camera+ and Dropbox. Note: This menu is required by the iOS SDK to launch apps from within glmps.

- After tapping ‘Open in “Instagram”’, glmps will be put into the background and the Instagram app will open with the photo from your glmps pre-loaded, cropped and ready for you to make it even more beautiful. You can see below I went with my favorite filter X-Pro II with Luxe applied.

- When clicking to the next screen in Instagram you can see the title has been pre-filled with the title you left on the glmps as well as a link back to the glmps so users can click on it and see the film leading up to the beautiful photo you just created in Instagram. 

It’s as easy as that. At glmps we are focused on innovating, and being the first video sharing app ito share to Instagram is just one step in evolving our platform to be the best way to share your life through video, one photo at a time.

- The glmps team

Facebook Timeline Support

As you may have heard the coolest thing since sliced bread these days is the new Facebook Open Graph. What is this you ask??? Well Facebook has enabled a way for apps to seamlessly share your activity within them to your Facebook friends. When you post a glmps, like a glmps, watch a glmps, etc.. all of those activities show up in your Timeline. Facebook even orginizes them by day, week, month and year allowing you to relive those moments from your timeline like below:

Facebook has just approved our actions so now you can share glmps with everyone you know by simply using the app. In order to enable this you will have to logout and back into Facebook using the following steps:

1. Go into your settings:

Click on the Profile icon in the upper right of the nav bar and then click on the icon that says Settings.

2. Click on Facebook Settings

Click on the Facebook item under Social Settings.

3.  Logout and Login to Facebook

Make sure Post Activity to Timeline is on then click on Connect Account to toggle it off (if it is on). Then click Connect Account again to toggle it on. This will bring you to the Facebook login dialog within the Facebook app. Reconnect glmps and when you come back to glmps you are all set.

From this point on your activity within glmps will show up on your friends Facebook ticker and also on your timeline. You can disable this feature at any time by following the steps above to get back to your Facebook settings and then toggle Post Activity to Timeline off. 

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop us a line contact[at]glmps[dot]com.

- The glmps team

We’re bringing the Back To The Future time machine to SXSW!

Are you heading to Austin for SXSW? Use glmps to capture all the craziness of the event using glmps - we’ll take you back in time to relive those moments later!

We’ve partnered up with Foodspotting’s Street Food Festival on Saturday at the corner of 2nd and Congress from 4p - 10p and are bringing along the most famous time machine of all - the DeLorean from Back To The Future. Come geek out with us and take a glmps with the car of our dreams.

Our favorite new feature:

Here at glmps we’re big fans of Instagram which is why we now share directly to them. You no longer have to choose because you can get both a video and a beautiful photo! All you have to do is tap the share options and you’ll find the Instagram capture icon. It’ll prompt you to open the app and you’ll be taken to the photo filter screen. A shortened link to the original glmps is added to the title so that anyone viewing the photo can also relive the moment through glmps.

¡Bienvenido a glmps v2.1!

Now we’re available natively in 10 languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese and Hebrew. We know there may be words or phrases that aren’t perfectly translated so feel free to send us over any feedback because we’re trusting translators since we can’t even proofread some of those languages.

Other new features:

• Search. Look up glmpses using keywords or hashtags by tapping on the star icon.
• Scroll through previous glmpses. There’s now a “Me” option under the star icon that visually showcases your old shots and lets you quickly jump to them.
• Users no longer have to log-in to experience glmps. The popular feed as well as nearby glmpses are now available for everyone. Creating an account is only required to upload a glmps or interact within the community.
• Faster upload. Uploads begin immediately after shooting a glmps and continue in the background while a title and share options are selected.
• Broader sharing capabilities. Can use your favorite photo apps Instagram and Camera+ to filter photos.

We’re really excited to get to meet glmps users in person at SXSW so don’t be shy - come say hello at the Foodspotting Street Food Festival!

As always, we’re always looking for feedback and look forward to seeing a ton of glmpses from Austin.

- The glmps team

Tip: How to edit titles and delete comments

Now when your iPhone autocorrects to an embarrassing word in your title or comment you don’t have to fret because you can edit or delete whenever you’d like.

HOW TO EDIT TITLES

1. Touch anywhere in the title box (hint: it’ll turn blue)
2. At the top right you’ll see Edit, tap it and you’ll be prompted with “Edit title?”
3. To save click “Send” and your new title will replace your old one 

You’re now also able to either delete comments you’ve written or delete comments others have left on your glmpses.

HOW TO DELETE COMMENTS LEFT ON YOUR GLMPSES

You can either select individual comments and hit Delete at the top right, or if you’ve got a lot of comments you’d touch “Show All Activity” and then you can edit them in bulk.

HOW TO DELETE YOUR COMMENTS

Tap your comment and it’ll take you to a detailed view screen where you’ll have a Delete option on the top right