Welcome again to Wireless Frame Media
Welcome to our blog Wireless Picture Frame.
Our mission is to be the leader in content, tools and community to support the emerging category of wireless digital picture frames.
Digital picture frames have been around for some time. As an early adopter, my acquisition was motivated by the desire to see a collection of family photos playing around the clock. But, and there’s always a but, not unlike the unused exercise equipment that dominates my basement, I quickly found my digital frame going the way of my rowing machine. Rather than timely, exciting pictures from last week’s soccer game, my frame became a mausoleum of images of my thirteen year old little leaguer (now eighteen) and a slope-slide picture of a guy with hair (which my mirror tells me is long gone – not the guy, the hair).
Why had this frame failed to meet the promise of dynamically delivering up to date pics of family and friends 24 x 7? Because it’s too damn difficult and time consuming to update. I’m lazy … and my guess is that I’m not alone. If there is utility and value in a technology, then more likely than not, it will eventually address the laziness issue with efficiency and ease-of-use enhancements. This is the case with digital frames.
Wireless Picture Frames will integrate with web services to enable sharing, content selection, and remote update capability. They will be inexpensive and ubiquitous in the home and in the enterprise and they will take many shapes and sizes.
This isn’t your grandma’s picture frame yet. The day will come when Grandma will see daily pictures and messages on her wireless picture frame from her thirteen grandchildren in the luxury of her nursing home room. Her content preferences will be programmed by her tech-savvy fourteen year old granddaughter three thousand miles away. Unfortunately, unlike the home market, the wireless router has yet to make its way to the nursing home. But it will!
This is my son’s picture frame now! The day has come when my eighteen old will take along a wireless picture frame for his new dorm room. The frame will connect wirelessly and allow for his sister to send pictures of her new, bigger bedroom (previously his) and his parents to post a “screen sticky” reminding him to study hard for each day of college is costing them (us) $200. He in turn will utilize a browser to program his frame content to include family photos, Red Sox headlines, a joke of the day, and the airdale photo channel.
Our goal is supply the right content at the right time: for those in the buying process, as well as provide tools and community support for those who have purchased one. Our first step is www.wirelesspictureframe.com which will combine product reviews, ratings, links, help files, and news. We hope that you will join us in this content creation and share your tricks and tips as you hang your first frame. Shortly you will see reviews on products from photoVu, eStarling, Ceiva, Chumby, and Emtrace. We are confident that these early players will be joined by a multitude of others over the next few years and we will cover each and every one.
Kicking off a startup can be something of a bipolar experience. One day you feel that your new venture is the next Google; the next you have resigned yourself to the fact that this is truly a stupid idea and your grandmother was the first to tell you. But we have a bit of a track record. The two of us have started or been integral in starting a series of companies including uLocate Communications, OpenAir , ZDNet, ontri, Nurse.com, and Instant Information, Inc. Most of these have been in advance of a technology wave (the only way small companies have an opportunity to become big) and this effort is no different. We are betting on a Wireless Picture Frame Tsunami and the corresponding wave … it’s time to wax the surfboards!
