San Francisco, Calif. — October 20, 2009 — Snaptic Inc., a leading developer of mobile productivity solutions, announced today the launch of its new corporate brand. Snaptic is focused on developing mobile applications that help users capture, organize, and share what is important to them.
Snaptic is the company behind 3banana, a freeform note taking application that allows users to capture, sync and share information across Android, iPhone, and the Web. Snaptic has also added AK Notepad to its product lineup - the #1 productivity app in the Google Android Market.
"I developed AK Notepad to make mobile note-taking easy and painless, and users responded," said Andrew Kurniadi, the engineer who developed AK Notepad. "I'm really excited about working with Snaptic and our plans for the future. I think users are going to be blown away by what we are cooking up."
AK Notepad makes it easy to take notes on any Android phone, set reminders, and share notes with friends over SMS. Users have consistently given AK Notepad high marks for its usability and simplicity.
"In an era of information overload, Snaptic apps help people capture, remember, and share the information that's most important to them -- ideas that otherwise might be washed away, lost, and forgotten," said Steve Brown, CEO of Snaptic. "AK Notepad is a great addition to Snaptic, and Andrew shares our vision for creating simple solutions to complex problems."
Snaptic is developing mobile technology that enables users to capture their important content in a freeform, context-aware, associative, and auto-categorizing manner - to give users more control, with less effort.
Steve continued, "Snaptic is out to make mobile software do the work for you, rather than you working for it. We want to make you more efficient and be able to do more by doing less. We want to make you smarter."
AK Notepad and 3banana are available today as free downloads in the Google Android Market. 3banana is also available in the iPhone App Store, and on the web at 3banana.com.
About Snaptic
Snaptic is a leading developer of smartphone and web productivity applications that capture, organize, and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, Snaptic mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://snaptic.com.
Snaptic™, 3banana®, and AK Notepad™, are trademarks of Snaptic, Inc.
Contact:
Shawn Cunningham
shawn [at] snaptic [dot] com
415-637-0800
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Fly Fishing with 3banana!
Uses for 3banana Notes are practically endless.
Thanks to Eric Fink for this awesome video that shows one great use for 3banana Notes!
Here's one great example that's not just a fish story!
Thanks to Eric Fink for this awesome video that shows one great use for 3banana Notes!
Friday, June 12, 2009
What a great week for 3banana!
When you wake up to find makeuseof.com using words like "coolness" and "simple and easy" to describe 3banana Notes and urges you "check out the super-portable, super-simple 3banana" -- you know it's shaping up to be a good week.
And when Lifehacker chimes in with "If you're looking for a simple way to take, store, and share notes in the cloud, 3Banana makes organizing your notes easy with notes based on in-text hashtags" -- you know it's going to be a great week!
But to learn we're also Big In Japan -- it's enough to pop some champagne -- and roll on the floor! Check out what they're saying according to Google translation:
"Note that for all that paper and pencil all the Ta-ta for now ... you've completely lost your mind to the convenience of I think you are."
Ha!
Joking aside, it looks like people everywhere are finding 3banana Notes to be a really easy solution to take, publish, and share their notes from their mobile devices to the web -- and back. And that's our goal!
Hardgeek.com is onto us too, using terms like "exciting" and "easy" -- to describe both the application as a whole and to describe 3banana's awesome features:
"Aren’t these features enough for you to switch from your old note making application to 3banana? There are lot of other cool features too, which will make your daily tasks well ordered and synchronized that too in a simpler manner."
Can it get better?? Yes!
ReadWriteWeb tells the world (just now as I'm typing this):
"... 3Banana takes a more social approach as a note taking company. Launched early this year, 3Banana touts a simple Twitter-like interface and users share their notes, photos and links via Twitter, Facebook and email from their iPhone or Android phone. This approach also employs hashtags as labels. If you're keeping notes for a collaborative project, this might be the more convenient choice to capture your ideas. If your notes are meant for personal private consumption, Evernote or an old fashioned pen and paper are still probably your best bet."
(But we don't necessarily agree, Dana, that 3banana falters for "private consumption" -- in fact most folks tend to keep notes private and 3banana's simple interface is still a top choice...)
This fun stuff comes down the pike at the same time Steve was up in Boston this week keynoting the Games For Health conference where it looks like there's an awaking in the health industry of how new technologies that are "super-portable" and "super-simple" (a-hem!) will revolutionize the landscape. Enter 3banana ....
A great week indeed.
And when Lifehacker chimes in with "If you're looking for a simple way to take, store, and share notes in the cloud, 3Banana makes organizing your notes easy with notes based on in-text hashtags" -- you know it's going to be a great week!
But to learn we're also Big In Japan -- it's enough to pop some champagne -- and roll on the floor! Check out what they're saying according to Google translation:
"Note that for all that paper and pencil all the Ta-ta for now ... you've completely lost your mind to the convenience of I think you are."
Ha!
Joking aside, it looks like people everywhere are finding 3banana Notes to be a really easy solution to take, publish, and share their notes from their mobile devices to the web -- and back. And that's our goal!
Hardgeek.com is onto us too, using terms like "exciting" and "easy" -- to describe both the application as a whole and to describe 3banana's awesome features:
"Aren’t these features enough for you to switch from your old note making application to 3banana? There are lot of other cool features too, which will make your daily tasks well ordered and synchronized that too in a simpler manner."
Can it get better?? Yes!
ReadWriteWeb tells the world (just now as I'm typing this):
"... 3Banana takes a more social approach as a note taking company. Launched early this year, 3Banana touts a simple Twitter-like interface and users share their notes, photos and links via Twitter, Facebook and email from their iPhone or Android phone. This approach also employs hashtags as labels. If you're keeping notes for a collaborative project, this might be the more convenient choice to capture your ideas. If your notes are meant for personal private consumption, Evernote or an old fashioned pen and paper are still probably your best bet."
(But we don't necessarily agree, Dana, that 3banana falters for "private consumption" -- in fact most folks tend to keep notes private and 3banana's simple interface is still a top choice...)
This fun stuff comes down the pike at the same time Steve was up in Boston this week keynoting the Games For Health conference where it looks like there's an awaking in the health industry of how new technologies that are "super-portable" and "super-simple" (a-hem!) will revolutionize the landscape. Enter 3banana ....
A great week indeed.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Press Release: 3banana Notes for Android One Of The Easiest Ways To Capture, Share, And Discuss Information
3banana Notes for Android Smartphones Is One Of The Easiest Ways To Capture, Share, And Discuss Information-- Less work, easier to share, more useful than any other mobile note-taking application --
San Francisco, Calif. -- May 28, 2009 -- 3banana Inc., a leading innovator of mobile information capture solutions, is thrilled to announce its 3banana Notes application for Android smartphones is being touted by its users for its simplicity and power. From church pastors to travelers, casual users to professionals, 3banana Notes efficiency in capturing, synching and sharing information from Android mobile devices is gaining traction -- and fanfare.
"You never know when inspiration is going to hit, and it is great to have your notebook always handy on your phone," says Steve Brown, CEO of 3banana. "Even if you are capturing the doodle of an idea on a napkin, when you snap a photo and tag it in your notebook, you can go back to it and develop the idea rather than losing it in your glovebox or drawer. I use 3banana so that my notes and ideas are always handy and easy to share. I'm glad to see that our users agree."
Stories of how people are using 3banana Notes on their Android phones abound. A few stand-outs include:
* "I am a United Church of Christ pastor. I use 3banana.com in a number of different ways. First, I need to visit and check with many different people who are sick or having problems. With this mobile application, I can enter their names and a short reminder whether I need to call or visit them. If I forget them, they will think that I do not care when it is simply a matter of trying to remember everyone and their needs. Entering the data through my office computer, I know that it will show up on my Android when I do a sync. My notes and important pieces of information for meetings also show up on the application on the Android. It is easy to drag the URL of an interest article that can be read later. 3banna.com is a very handy planning application. Many task planning program have their own rigid structure, assuming that everyone plans in the same way. This system allows me to structure the way I do my own planning. It is a very well behaved program that simply works."
* "I use 3banana for two purposes, each which make my life much easier. First I use it to copy/paste recipes from the internet, so I have convenient access to them when I am shopping and need ingredient lists while I'm walking around the grocery store. I use it in the other direction to make note of Musical Artists and Songs that I hear as I am traveling so that I have a single place to look for them when I get back to my PC and which to purchase albums and download songs. And the label feature is useful to organize my lists so I don't end up trying to buy CDs at the grocery store! Thanks 3banana!"
* "When I am traveling in US 3banana becomes my travel assistant. Basically I will jot down contact info and address of my friends, attached with google map screenshots (using pre-paid SIM card causes higher-than-affordable data expense for Google Map on the go). It works pretty well - making me suddenly a New Yorker!"
* "Just wanted to drop a note to tell you how much I am enjoying 3banana. For several years now I have written down every idea that pops into my head. No matter how stupid I think it is later, I keep it. Seems silly, but sometimes I actually use some of the ideas for my work. I've used little scraps of paper, txt files, Word docs, emails to myself, browser plugins, phone apps...everything. I never found anything that works quite like this. The new G1 app is really slick. Now i never have to worry about losing something. It does everything I want it to do, and I don't even use most of it. I hate to say this, but I would pay for it if you made me. But I hope it stays free."
Brown continues, "It's pretty cool to see such great user feedback. The stories we're hearing about how people are using the application further confirm how easy it is for anyone to take, share, and sync their notes from their Android phones to their computers -- and beyond."
About 3banana: 3banana Inc. creates smartphone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smartphone or online note taking application available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com. 3banana Notes is currently available as a free download in the Google Android App Market.
3banana and the 3banana logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. QR Code is a trademark of Denso-Wave, Inc.
Contact: Myles Weissleder for 3banana
myles@3banana.com
415-332-3205
San Francisco, Calif. -- May 28, 2009 -- 3banana Inc., a leading innovator of mobile information capture solutions, is thrilled to announce its 3banana Notes application for Android smartphones is being touted by its users for its simplicity and power. From church pastors to travelers, casual users to professionals, 3banana Notes efficiency in capturing, synching and sharing information from Android mobile devices is gaining traction -- and fanfare.
"You never know when inspiration is going to hit, and it is great to have your notebook always handy on your phone," says Steve Brown, CEO of 3banana. "Even if you are capturing the doodle of an idea on a napkin, when you snap a photo and tag it in your notebook, you can go back to it and develop the idea rather than losing it in your glovebox or drawer. I use 3banana so that my notes and ideas are always handy and easy to share. I'm glad to see that our users agree."
Stories of how people are using 3banana Notes on their Android phones abound. A few stand-outs include:
* "I am a United Church of Christ pastor. I use 3banana.com in a number of different ways. First, I need to visit and check with many different people who are sick or having problems. With this mobile application, I can enter their names and a short reminder whether I need to call or visit them. If I forget them, they will think that I do not care when it is simply a matter of trying to remember everyone and their needs. Entering the data through my office computer, I know that it will show up on my Android when I do a sync. My notes and important pieces of information for meetings also show up on the application on the Android. It is easy to drag the URL of an interest article that can be read later. 3banna.com is a very handy planning application. Many task planning program have their own rigid structure, assuming that everyone plans in the same way. This system allows me to structure the way I do my own planning. It is a very well behaved program that simply works."
* "I use 3banana for two purposes, each which make my life much easier. First I use it to copy/paste recipes from the internet, so I have convenient access to them when I am shopping and need ingredient lists while I'm walking around the grocery store. I use it in the other direction to make note of Musical Artists and Songs that I hear as I am traveling so that I have a single place to look for them when I get back to my PC and which to purchase albums and download songs. And the label feature is useful to organize my lists so I don't end up trying to buy CDs at the grocery store! Thanks 3banana!"
* "When I am traveling in US 3banana becomes my travel assistant. Basically I will jot down contact info and address of my friends, attached with google map screenshots (using pre-paid SIM card causes higher-than-affordable data expense for Google Map on the go). It works pretty well - making me suddenly a New Yorker!"
* "Just wanted to drop a note to tell you how much I am enjoying 3banana. For several years now I have written down every idea that pops into my head. No matter how stupid I think it is later, I keep it. Seems silly, but sometimes I actually use some of the ideas for my work. I've used little scraps of paper, txt files, Word docs, emails to myself, browser plugins, phone apps...everything. I never found anything that works quite like this. The new G1 app is really slick. Now i never have to worry about losing something. It does everything I want it to do, and I don't even use most of it. I hate to say this, but I would pay for it if you made me. But I hope it stays free."
Brown continues, "It's pretty cool to see such great user feedback. The stories we're hearing about how people are using the application further confirm how easy it is for anyone to take, share, and sync their notes from their Android phones to their computers -- and beyond."
About 3banana: 3banana Inc. creates smartphone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smartphone or online note taking application available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com. 3banana Notes is currently available as a free download in the Google Android App Market.
3banana and the 3banana logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. QR Code is a trademark of Denso-Wave, Inc.
Contact: Myles Weissleder for 3banana
myles@3banana.com
415-332-3205
Thursday, May 7, 2009
3banana Presents at Frost & Sullivan GoMobile 2009
3banana gives a live demo of its Android note-taking app that syncs and shares online and also generates and scans QR codes to link online notes to physical objects.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Android Tapp Reviews 3banana Notes for Android
Android Tapp published a new review of 3banana Notes for the Android smart phone. Visit Android Tapp to see lots of 3banana Notes screen shots as well as their thoughts on our new QR Code and social features.
Here's the excerpt:
3Banana Notes Android App takes note taking to the next level by letting you add pictures from your phone camera to the note or Scan the bar code of the subject (Shopping items, Websites and more). QR codes popping every where as a replacement for URLs, that’s great foresight from the developers. 3Banana Notes is an awesome Social networking companion. Just make a not,e associate a picture or even better… just scan the QR code and socialize. Added to that snappy bar code scanner, you can share your note to a whole slew of other Social Networking sties or even make a QR code of the note if needed. Kudos to the developers and designers for their smart wholesome thinking in chiseling this brilliant app. 3banana Notes will also let you sync your notes on your Android phone or mobile device to their online servers. Using your Google ID, users can sign on to 3banana’s website for reviewing your existing notes or add new notes for later syncing to your mobile device.
Thanks Android Tapp!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009
Here is our presentation from the Down Jones Wireless Innovations conference:
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Press Release: 3banana Demos Android App at SF New Tech
3banana Demonstrates First Smart Phone App to Link Shared Online Notebooks and Physical Objects using Quick Response (QR) Barcodes at SF New Tech
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 25, 2009 -- 3banana Inc., an innovator of mobile information capture solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate its new Android smart phone application at SF New Tech, San Francisco's largest and longest running technology event and community group. 3banana Notes is a note-taking application that enables users to selectively share and discuss notes with friends and link shared notebooks to physical objects by generating and scanning QR Code (Quick Response barcode) directly on Android smart phones.
- Who: Steve Brown, CEO and Co-Founder, 3banana Inc.
- When: Wednesday, March 25th - Doors open at 5:30 p.m. PDT and product demonstrations start at 7:30 p.m. PDT
- Where: Club Mighty - 119 Utah St., San Francisco, CA 94103
- Event Web Site: http://325sfnewtech.eventbrite.com
Other presentations at SF New Tech on March 25 include Orange Lab's Clip2Mobile, Cisco's Global Internet Speed Test, Gendai Games' GameSalad, Skout's Skout Out mobile dating app, and new mobile technology from Nokia.
"We often think of note-taking applications as memory aids, but brain science teaches us that the best way to remember is to create links to something concrete and to share with friends," said Steve Brown, 3banana Co-Founder and CEO. "3banana Notes is the first smart phone note-taking app that works the way your brain works -- capturing and organizing information with less effort, making it easy to share and discuss notes with friends, and enabling you to link those online conversations to physical objects. Whether it is a bottle of wine, a book, or a box of stuff in your garage, now you can hold up your smart phone to a QR code on that object and immediately scan in your shared notes related to that object."
3banana Notes for Android stays synchronized wirelessly with the 3banana online service at http://3banana.com. Using 3banana online or on the go, users can view and edit their private notes, share and discuss notes with friends, and generate and scan QR codes (quick response barcodes) associated with online and mobile notes. In addition to photos and notes captured on smart phones, online users also can keep track of web pages, presentations, and videos. All notes are organized and labeled inline -- without the need for extra data entry fields or repetitive typing. Notes can be shared by emailing permalinks to shared notes or by posting shared notes to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
3banana Notes is currently available as a free download in the Google Android App Market. QR Codes are two dimensional barcodes designed for high speed scanning and decoding. QR Codes were created by Denso-Wave in Japan in 1994, and had have gained popularity recently when Google started to promote the standard.
About SF New Tech Meetup
The SF New Tech Meetup is for VCs, journalists, hackers, techies, recruiters, CEOs, and anyone else interested in the latest and greatest new technology in San Francisco. The SF New Tech Meetup has over 4,000 members and the monthly events are regularly sold out. Each event offers five people/companies, five minutes to strut their stuff. The audience asks questions and gives feedback. The event is San Francisco's largest and longest running technology event and has involved over 1,800 companies throughout its three years running.
About 3banana
3banana Inc. creates smart phone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smart phone or online note taking application available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com.
3banana and the 3banana logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. QR Code is a trademark of Denso-Wave, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 25, 2009 -- 3banana Inc., an innovator of mobile information capture solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate its new Android smart phone application at SF New Tech, San Francisco's largest and longest running technology event and community group. 3banana Notes is a note-taking application that enables users to selectively share and discuss notes with friends and link shared notebooks to physical objects by generating and scanning QR Code (Quick Response barcode) directly on Android smart phones.
- Who: Steve Brown, CEO and Co-Founder, 3banana Inc.
- When: Wednesday, March 25th - Doors open at 5:30 p.m. PDT and product demonstrations start at 7:30 p.m. PDT
- Where: Club Mighty - 119 Utah St., San Francisco, CA 94103
- Event Web Site: http://325sfnewtech.eventbrite.com
Other presentations at SF New Tech on March 25 include Orange Lab's Clip2Mobile, Cisco's Global Internet Speed Test, Gendai Games' GameSalad, Skout's Skout Out mobile dating app, and new mobile technology from Nokia.
"We often think of note-taking applications as memory aids, but brain science teaches us that the best way to remember is to create links to something concrete and to share with friends," said Steve Brown, 3banana Co-Founder and CEO. "3banana Notes is the first smart phone note-taking app that works the way your brain works -- capturing and organizing information with less effort, making it easy to share and discuss notes with friends, and enabling you to link those online conversations to physical objects. Whether it is a bottle of wine, a book, or a box of stuff in your garage, now you can hold up your smart phone to a QR code on that object and immediately scan in your shared notes related to that object."
3banana Notes for Android stays synchronized wirelessly with the 3banana online service at http://3banana.com. Using 3banana online or on the go, users can view and edit their private notes, share and discuss notes with friends, and generate and scan QR codes (quick response barcodes) associated with online and mobile notes. In addition to photos and notes captured on smart phones, online users also can keep track of web pages, presentations, and videos. All notes are organized and labeled inline -- without the need for extra data entry fields or repetitive typing. Notes can be shared by emailing permalinks to shared notes or by posting shared notes to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
3banana Notes is currently available as a free download in the Google Android App Market. QR Codes are two dimensional barcodes designed for high speed scanning and decoding. QR Codes were created by Denso-Wave in Japan in 1994, and had have gained popularity recently when Google started to promote the standard.
About SF New Tech Meetup
The SF New Tech Meetup is for VCs, journalists, hackers, techies, recruiters, CEOs, and anyone else interested in the latest and greatest new technology in San Francisco. The SF New Tech Meetup has over 4,000 members and the monthly events are regularly sold out. Each event offers five people/companies, five minutes to strut their stuff. The audience asks questions and gives feedback. The event is San Francisco's largest and longest running technology event and has involved over 1,800 companies throughout its three years running.
About 3banana
3banana Inc. creates smart phone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smart phone or online note taking application available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com.
3banana and the 3banana logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. QR Code is a trademark of Denso-Wave, Inc.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Press Release: 3banana Previews Note Taking App with QR Codes at Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009
Android Smart Phone App Generates and Scans QR Codes To Link Online Notes To Physical World
3banana launches QR Codes (Quick Response barcodes) for Android smart phone note taking app at Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009 Conference
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 17, 2009 -- Presenting at the Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009 conference today, 3banana Inc. launched the first Android note taking application enabling users to generate and scan QR Code (Quick Response barcode) directly on Android smart phones to link physical objects to mobile and online notes. Earlier this month, 3banana launched the first social note taking application for the Android smart phone, combining fast and efficient private note taking with the ability to share and discuss notes on the web and on the go. Now 3banana online notes and discussion threads can be connected to physical objects, from books to billboards to boxes in the garage.
The Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009 conference showcases future wireless and mobile technology and includes keynotes from top executives at RIM, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile USA, Texas Instruments, and Myspace.com. The conference takes place on March 17 and 18, 2009, at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, California. QR Codes are two dimensional barcodes designed for high speed scanning and decoding. QR Codes were created by Denso-Wave in Japan in 1994, and have gained popularity recently when Google began promoting the standard.
In presentations on March 17 at 11:55 AM and 12:55 PM, 3banana Inc. Cofounder and CEO Steve Brown unveiled a new release of 3banana Notes for the Android smart phone that can both generate and scan QR Codes on the phone to create notes or to pull up existing online notes and discussions about objects, places, or topics. Using the example of shared online wine tasting notes attached to a bottle of wine in the cellar or shared with a friend, Brown's demonstration included the following steps:
- Quickly creating a note by scanning a QR Code, taking a photo, or jotting down text on an Android smart phone.
- Wirelessly synching Android notes to a 3banana online notebook to generate a unique private URL that can be shared.
- Selectively sharing notes with friends to start an online discussion, i.e. book notes with a book club and wine notes with a wine group.
- Easily generating a QR Code image associated with an online note and related discussion thread and labeling a physical object.
- Automatically retrieving information on the Android smart phone by scanning the QR codes to pull up the note and discussion.
"Generating, scanning, and sharing information using personalized barcodes once was reserved for expensive systems used by large enterprises, like Fedex delivery people, or General Electric field service, or Kaiser Permanente hospital quality assurance," commented Brown. "Now you can use QR Codes on those boxes in your garage, and share your notes with other members of your family so everyone knows what's in there. You can label a book or a bottle of wine with QR Code so that when you share it with a friend you have invited them to a private online discussion group. You can even put a 3banana Notes QR Code into a Geocache to make the global outdoor treasure even more interesting. 3banana Notes for Android with QR codes is free, so your imagination is the only limit."
"Sharing a QR Code image on your phone is also a great way to pass a note from one Android phone to another," said Andreas Schobel, 3banana Cofounder and CTO. "You can generate QR code for a note on one Android phone, and then your friend can scan it in on another phone. When you share notes with your friends, the online conversation can evolve in fun and unpredictable ways. A book that once was collecting dust in the basement now can travel into the world as a catalyst for an ongoing online conversation that brings new ideas, people and experiences into your life."
3banana Notes for Android stays synchronized wirelessly with the 3banana online service, where users can view and edit their private notes, share notes with friends, or comment on shared notes. In addition to photos and notes captured on their smart phones, online users also can keep track of web pages, documents, and videos, all organized and labeled inline -- without the need for extra data entry fields or repetitive typing. Notes can be posted to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter or shared on 3banana.com for a more private online discussion.
3banana Notes for Android is currently available as a free download in the Google Android App Market.
About 3banana
3banana Inc. creates smart phone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smart phone or online note taking application available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com.
3banana and the 3banana logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. QR Code is a trademark of Denso-Wave, Inc.
3banana launches QR Codes (Quick Response barcodes) for Android smart phone note taking app at Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009 Conference
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 17, 2009 -- Presenting at the Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009 conference today, 3banana Inc. launched the first Android note taking application enabling users to generate and scan QR Code (Quick Response barcode) directly on Android smart phones to link physical objects to mobile and online notes. Earlier this month, 3banana launched the first social note taking application for the Android smart phone, combining fast and efficient private note taking with the ability to share and discuss notes on the web and on the go. Now 3banana online notes and discussion threads can be connected to physical objects, from books to billboards to boxes in the garage.
The Dow Jones Wireless Innovations 2009 conference showcases future wireless and mobile technology and includes keynotes from top executives at RIM, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile USA, Texas Instruments, and Myspace.com. The conference takes place on March 17 and 18, 2009, at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, California. QR Codes are two dimensional barcodes designed for high speed scanning and decoding. QR Codes were created by Denso-Wave in Japan in 1994, and have gained popularity recently when Google began promoting the standard.
In presentations on March 17 at 11:55 AM and 12:55 PM, 3banana Inc. Cofounder and CEO Steve Brown unveiled a new release of 3banana Notes for the Android smart phone that can both generate and scan QR Codes on the phone to create notes or to pull up existing online notes and discussions about objects, places, or topics. Using the example of shared online wine tasting notes attached to a bottle of wine in the cellar or shared with a friend, Brown's demonstration included the following steps:
- Quickly creating a note by scanning a QR Code, taking a photo, or jotting down text on an Android smart phone.
- Wirelessly synching Android notes to a 3banana online notebook to generate a unique private URL that can be shared.
- Selectively sharing notes with friends to start an online discussion, i.e. book notes with a book club and wine notes with a wine group.
- Easily generating a QR Code image associated with an online note and related discussion thread and labeling a physical object.
- Automatically retrieving information on the Android smart phone by scanning the QR codes to pull up the note and discussion.
"Generating, scanning, and sharing information using personalized barcodes once was reserved for expensive systems used by large enterprises, like Fedex delivery people, or General Electric field service, or Kaiser Permanente hospital quality assurance," commented Brown. "Now you can use QR Codes on those boxes in your garage, and share your notes with other members of your family so everyone knows what's in there. You can label a book or a bottle of wine with QR Code so that when you share it with a friend you have invited them to a private online discussion group. You can even put a 3banana Notes QR Code into a Geocache to make the global outdoor treasure even more interesting. 3banana Notes for Android with QR codes is free, so your imagination is the only limit."
"Sharing a QR Code image on your phone is also a great way to pass a note from one Android phone to another," said Andreas Schobel, 3banana Cofounder and CTO. "You can generate QR code for a note on one Android phone, and then your friend can scan it in on another phone. When you share notes with your friends, the online conversation can evolve in fun and unpredictable ways. A book that once was collecting dust in the basement now can travel into the world as a catalyst for an ongoing online conversation that brings new ideas, people and experiences into your life."
3banana Notes for Android stays synchronized wirelessly with the 3banana online service, where users can view and edit their private notes, share notes with friends, or comment on shared notes. In addition to photos and notes captured on their smart phones, online users also can keep track of web pages, documents, and videos, all organized and labeled inline -- without the need for extra data entry fields or repetitive typing. Notes can be posted to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter or shared on 3banana.com for a more private online discussion.
3banana Notes for Android is currently available as a free download in the Google Android App Market.
About 3banana
3banana Inc. creates smart phone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smart phone or online note taking application available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com.
3banana and the 3banana logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. QR Code is a trademark of Denso-Wave, Inc.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Press Release: Android Just Got Smarter -- And More Social -- With 3banana Notes
3banana Launches Smart Phone Note Taking App with Wireless Sync and Social Media Sharing
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 3, 2009 -- 3banana Inc. today announced the launch of 3banana Notes, the first note taking app for the Android smart phone with wireless online sync and social media sharing. 3banana combines fast and efficient private note taking on the Android smart phone with the ability to sync, share and discuss notes with friends over the web at http://3banana.com and via social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
"Do you ever want to quickly jot down an idea before you forget it? Whether it's your next great movie plot, or the keyword that will help you find that ridiculous YouTube video everyone is talking about, the 3banana note taking app helps you catch those ideas before they escape," said Andreas Schobel, 3banana co-founder and CTO. "3banana also makes it easy to share your notes with friends -- rather than being lost forever, that idea in your notes can be the beginning of an online conversation."
"Since before the invention of paper and pencil, people have sought to improve their lives by capturing and sharing thoughts, experiences, and ideas," said Steve Brown, 3banana co-founder and CEO. "In the information-rich and fast-paced world today, the challenge is to get information from the brain in your head, into the brain in your pocket, and connected to the brainpower in the Internet cloud. We streamlined and simplified our note taking app so that users could quickly jot down a thought or tag a photo on their Android smart phone with as few keystrokes as possible, and then sync and share those notes wirelessly and effortlessly."
3banana Notes for the Android smart phone stays synchronized wirelessly with the 3banana online service, where users can view and edit their private notes, share notes with friends, or comment on shared notes. In addition to photos and notes captured on their smart phones, online users also can keep track of web pages, presentations, and videos, all organized and labeled inline -- without the need for extra data entry fields or repetitive typing. Each shared note has a private permalink that can be posted to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter or shared on http://3banana.com for a more private online discussion.
The 3banana Notes Android note taking app is currently available as a free download in the productivity section of the Google Android App Market.
About 3banana
3banana Inc. creates smart phone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smart phone or online note taking app available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com.
3banana name and logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
Follow at http://twitter.com/3banana
Sign in with your Google account at http://3banana.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 3, 2009 -- 3banana Inc. today announced the launch of 3banana Notes, the first note taking app for the Android smart phone with wireless online sync and social media sharing. 3banana combines fast and efficient private note taking on the Android smart phone with the ability to sync, share and discuss notes with friends over the web at http://3banana.com and via social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
"Do you ever want to quickly jot down an idea before you forget it? Whether it's your next great movie plot, or the keyword that will help you find that ridiculous YouTube video everyone is talking about, the 3banana note taking app helps you catch those ideas before they escape," said Andreas Schobel, 3banana co-founder and CTO. "3banana also makes it easy to share your notes with friends -- rather than being lost forever, that idea in your notes can be the beginning of an online conversation."
"Since before the invention of paper and pencil, people have sought to improve their lives by capturing and sharing thoughts, experiences, and ideas," said Steve Brown, 3banana co-founder and CEO. "In the information-rich and fast-paced world today, the challenge is to get information from the brain in your head, into the brain in your pocket, and connected to the brainpower in the Internet cloud. We streamlined and simplified our note taking app so that users could quickly jot down a thought or tag a photo on their Android smart phone with as few keystrokes as possible, and then sync and share those notes wirelessly and effortlessly."
3banana Notes for the Android smart phone stays synchronized wirelessly with the 3banana online service, where users can view and edit their private notes, share notes with friends, or comment on shared notes. In addition to photos and notes captured on their smart phones, online users also can keep track of web pages, presentations, and videos, all organized and labeled inline -- without the need for extra data entry fields or repetitive typing. Each shared note has a private permalink that can be posted to popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter or shared on http://3banana.com for a more private online discussion.
The 3banana Notes Android note taking app is currently available as a free download in the productivity section of the Google Android App Market.
About 3banana
3banana Inc. creates smart phone and web applications that capture and share information effortlessly, wirelessly and securely. 3banana Notes are less work and easier to share than any other smart phone or online note taking app available today. Combining patent-pending innovations in semantics and social media sharing with fast, efficient and secure wireless information capture, 3banana mobile and web applications help people become more productive and more connected. For more information, please visit http://3banana.com.
3banana name and logo are trademarks of 3banana Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
Follow at http://twitter.com/3banana
Sign in with your Google account at http://3banana.com
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