Wow - time flies. It is nearly going home time, and I have left it a bit late - so just a couple of quick headlines this week.
There is a new version of RouteShoot out for iOS. This deals with a minor bug we had when iOS-7 came out, and the UI has been updated to make it "look and feel" more like the standard Apple applications. We have also included a couple of in app purchases. The first will allow users to "clip" their videos - you can now edit out any unwanted lead-in (or out) bits of video, or you can select just the most exciting part of a journey to upload. The second allows you to record more than 5 minutes of HD video. This is for those of you who just must have HD - and are happy to deal with the larger file sizes and longer upload times.
The second headline is that our MD has flown over to Las Vegas to meet our biggest customer Premier Utility Services at the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference. No feedback yet - other than he is going to breakfast before his first meeting. Look out for more news next week.
Off now for some quality X-box time. As ever, have fun this weekend.
Friday, 15 November 2013
Friday, 8 November 2013
Weekly Update - Premier progress
For those of you keeping an eye out for progress with our business applications, we thought it worth giving an update on our biggest client Premier Utility Services . Back on 11th October, we reported that they had 100 active users and over 8,000 videos had been uploaded.
Well, less than a month on and their roll-out has continued at pace. They are up at around the 300 user mark and the video uploads have topped 57,000. Wow - well done guys.
Needless to say, we at RouteShoot are all pretty pleased. This really shows how robust our technology is and how, without a single face-to-face meeting, the power of the internet can really be put to good use - provided you have a good and solid product in the first place.
All our server-side software was installed on Premier's US-based cloud servers from the UK and now RouteShoot is being used all across the US. Sometimes technology is just brilliant.
Have a great weekend.
Well, less than a month on and their roll-out has continued at pace. They are up at around the 300 user mark and the video uploads have topped 57,000. Wow - well done guys.
Needless to say, we at RouteShoot are all pretty pleased. This really shows how robust our technology is and how, without a single face-to-face meeting, the power of the internet can really be put to good use - provided you have a good and solid product in the first place.
All our server-side software was installed on Premier's US-based cloud servers from the UK and now RouteShoot is being used all across the US. Sometimes technology is just brilliant.
Have a great weekend.
Friday, 25 October 2013
Weekly Update - interest seems to be picking up
Hi again. Just a short post before we all dive off for a half-term week here in Exeter.
A couple more of our meetings with potential business clients seemed to go very well this week. At one of those meetings we hadn't even really gone to talk about RouteShoot as the main agenda item; but as soon as they heard that we had a smartphone app for capturing GPS-referenced video it became the first thing they wanted to hear. Needless to say we were delighted to oblige.
We have also this week come to the attention of the local UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) department - a government body that works with UK-based businesses to promote their expansion into international markets. It is early days yet, but this might help us to undertake more commercial activity outside the UK. So watch out if you are anywhere non-UK, we may be coming to a country near you soon.
Finally just a quick note to say we have updated our RouteShoot for Business website to cover RouteShoot for the Highways Industry. A little dry if you aren't working in the highways sector, but a jolly good read if you are. Please click here to visit the new web page.
Keep having those good weekends!
A couple more of our meetings with potential business clients seemed to go very well this week. At one of those meetings we hadn't even really gone to talk about RouteShoot as the main agenda item; but as soon as they heard that we had a smartphone app for capturing GPS-referenced video it became the first thing they wanted to hear. Needless to say we were delighted to oblige.
We have also this week come to the attention of the local UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) department - a government body that works with UK-based businesses to promote their expansion into international markets. It is early days yet, but this might help us to undertake more commercial activity outside the UK. So watch out if you are anywhere non-UK, we may be coming to a country near you soon.
Finally just a quick note to say we have updated our RouteShoot for Business website to cover RouteShoot for the Highways Industry. A little dry if you aren't working in the highways sector, but a jolly good read if you are. Please click here to visit the new web page.
Keep having those good weekends!
Friday, 18 October 2013
Weekly Update - Diagon Alley
After an extensive catch up last week, just a short post this...
As luck would have it, someone actually hosted an innovation workshop pretty locally to us - for a change. Always on the look out for new ideas we headed out to the Exeter Phoenix; the same place we saw the Damned a couple of weeks ago (see previous post).
This time we were in the daylight, so took the opportunity to shoot a little route. Below you can see Gandy Street in Exeter - allegedly the inspiration for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books.
One to share with the kids and the young-at-heart HP readers.
Have a good weekend everyone - we hope your weekend weather forecast is better than it is for us in the West Country.
As luck would have it, someone actually hosted an innovation workshop pretty locally to us - for a change. Always on the look out for new ideas we headed out to the Exeter Phoenix; the same place we saw the Damned a couple of weeks ago (see previous post).
This time we were in the daylight, so took the opportunity to shoot a little route. Below you can see Gandy Street in Exeter - allegedly the inspiration for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books.
One to share with the kids and the young-at-heart HP readers.
Have a good weekend everyone - we hope your weekend weather forecast is better than it is for us in the West Country.
Friday, 11 October 2013
Weekly update - or perhaps more appropriately - a catch up
Ok, so our weekly updates skipped a couple of weeks; but don’t worry we haven’t disappeared – it’s just that a couple of other things came up.Two weeks ago it was our love of music that got in the way. A gig at the Thekla in Bristol seeing 65daysofstatic (gosh it was hot in that boat), followed rapidly by another at the Phoenix in Exeter seeing The Damned meant we just didn’t have time for a Friday blog. Last week it was a client meeting which meant an 11 hour day out of the office, largely playing with the traffic near the M4/M5 junction. Such are the highs and lows of living in the West Country!
So, what has been happening? Well, there are a few pieces of exciting news, the main one being that the Premier Utility Services site is now up and running and over 100 users are actively using the system. They have uploaded over 8,000 videos already! This is a really brilliant demonstration of how quickly RouteShoot can be rolled out to a company’s workforce, how easy it is to use and how robust everything is. We have had hardly any support calls – even less than we anticipated to be honest. I know there has been a lot of effort put in by the guys at Premier too, so I think we need to pass a “well done” on to them as well.
We have also delivered the RouteShoot web and server-side software to a Shire County customer this week. This will manage the video data captured using another system, GeoVideo, which is supplied by our sister company Wilson Pym May Limited. GeoVideo is the forerunner to RouteShoot, developed by us before it was possible to get HD video and GPS from a smartphone. As an enhancement for them we have added features which will allow the GeoVideo files to be launched into a RouteShoot web page from ESRI’s ArcGIS - which is an essential piece of integration for this customer.
We are also very excited about one further international opportunity, and we have been skyping with some guys over in the Far East over the last couple of weeks. There is also a meeting lined up in the UK next week where we are getting to talk to some JV partners; so we get to demo to about 3 distinct companies all at the same time – result!
That’s all for now. Have a great weekend everybody.
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| Capt. Sensible and Dave Vanian - not endorsing RouteShoot |
So, what has been happening? Well, there are a few pieces of exciting news, the main one being that the Premier Utility Services site is now up and running and over 100 users are actively using the system. They have uploaded over 8,000 videos already! This is a really brilliant demonstration of how quickly RouteShoot can be rolled out to a company’s workforce, how easy it is to use and how robust everything is. We have had hardly any support calls – even less than we anticipated to be honest. I know there has been a lot of effort put in by the guys at Premier too, so I think we need to pass a “well done” on to them as well.
We have also delivered the RouteShoot web and server-side software to a Shire County customer this week. This will manage the video data captured using another system, GeoVideo, which is supplied by our sister company Wilson Pym May Limited. GeoVideo is the forerunner to RouteShoot, developed by us before it was possible to get HD video and GPS from a smartphone. As an enhancement for them we have added features which will allow the GeoVideo files to be launched into a RouteShoot web page from ESRI’s ArcGIS - which is an essential piece of integration for this customer.
We are also very excited about one further international opportunity, and we have been skyping with some guys over in the Far East over the last couple of weeks. There is also a meeting lined up in the UK next week where we are getting to talk to some JV partners; so we get to demo to about 3 distinct companies all at the same time – result!
That’s all for now. Have a great weekend everybody.
Friday, 20 September 2013
Weekly Update - iOS7
This
week in the RouteShoot village, the jury is still out on iOS7. The luddites, the
“don’t fix what isn’t broke”, and the “I’ve just got to grips with iOS6” among
us seem rather anti, while the “all progress is good” and the “come on - embrace
the new” are pro. However I think we’re all thinking the icons and white backgrounds
are a little retro.
One not-so-good thing about iOS7 is that it now handles map positioning on the screen a little differently, so something that wasn’t an iOS error before now is! This has led to a minor bug with playback in some (not all) existing RouteShoot files, but we are already on the case and have a fix for it. We are just looking now to wedge in a couple of feature upgrades that were already in the pipeline – just some minor of bits of debugging and additional testing to do – and we’ll issue an update. We would rather get it all in one release than throw ourselves into the Apple approvals process twice in quick succession for the sake a waiting a few days.
So if you have upgraded to iOS7 and have noticed a few of your old videos won’t play, don’t worry, we should get the upgrade out in the next fortnight. And everyone should be able to pick up the new RouteShoot features too, whether upgrading or sticking with iOS6 for the time being.
Have a good weekend everybody.
One not-so-good thing about iOS7 is that it now handles map positioning on the screen a little differently, so something that wasn’t an iOS error before now is! This has led to a minor bug with playback in some (not all) existing RouteShoot files, but we are already on the case and have a fix for it. We are just looking now to wedge in a couple of feature upgrades that were already in the pipeline – just some minor of bits of debugging and additional testing to do – and we’ll issue an update. We would rather get it all in one release than throw ourselves into the Apple approvals process twice in quick succession for the sake a waiting a few days.
So if you have upgraded to iOS7 and have noticed a few of your old videos won’t play, don’t worry, we should get the upgrade out in the next fortnight. And everyone should be able to pick up the new RouteShoot features too, whether upgrading or sticking with iOS6 for the time being.
Have a good weekend everybody.
Friday, 13 September 2013
Weekly Update - bye-bye summer, at least I RouteShooted some sun
Well, the holiday season is over, the rain falls, the kids are back at school, the traffic is a nightmare, and all the parking spaces are gone. Bye-bye British summer time.
Still, with RouteShoot at least I can look back on my holiday and remind myself of the warm sunshine and clear blue skies (not to mention lack of congestion) I was greeted with when I took a short break in Portugal...
Hooray - Portugal; that is yet another Western European country ticked off as RouteShoot output streams in from across the globe.
Despite the gloomy weather and traffic situation, things on the RouteShoot for Business front continue to look rosy. New interest from more customers, and we will be setting up further meetings in the next couple of weeks. Watch this space!
Still, with RouteShoot at least I can look back on my holiday and remind myself of the warm sunshine and clear blue skies (not to mention lack of congestion) I was greeted with when I took a short break in Portugal...
Hooray - Portugal; that is yet another Western European country ticked off as RouteShoot output streams in from across the globe.
Despite the gloomy weather and traffic situation, things on the RouteShoot for Business front continue to look rosy. New interest from more customers, and we will be setting up further meetings in the next couple of weeks. Watch this space!
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