New URL for Pictures

June 18th, 2011

The biggest pain with the picture messaging thus far has been its failure rate. Failure as in being able to send one. This was entirely due to the URL shortening – making gvmobileservices.appspot.com/p?img=XXXXXXX look like goo.gl/XXXXX. For Google’s own protection, they have many safe guards in place to prevent spammers killing their URL shortening service. Long story short, you should start seeing gvmpl.us URLs for your picture messaging. And it works badassly. Enjoy.

Leave a comment
  1. Carl
    June 18th, 2011 at 01:23
    Quote | #1

    Thanks man. Hopefully soon they can have native mms and an API.

  2. John
    June 27th, 2011 at 08:28
    Quote | #3

    Where are these pictures stored? Can these be removed if need be?

    • sean
      June 27th, 2011 at 10:20
      Quote | #4

      They can be removed. Send me an email. It’s stored on a secured sever.

  3. Rafael
    July 7th, 2011 at 23:57
    Quote | #5

    I’m not sure where the images are stored. Can you tell us here? If they are stored on your server, can you make it so that users can manage their own pictures through the app or a web browser interface? Either that or… could you give us users options like to where our pictures will be uploaded (e.g. what image hosting service is used) and how the URL will be shorted (e.g. what shortening service is used). These would be good options. :-)

Comments are closed.