Twango, who has just been acquired by Nokia last year, now becomes Share for Ovi. Here is the announcement from Twango’s blog.

First, we are now part of Nokia?s new service brand, “Ovi”. As of Today, the Twango brand will be a fond memory. We are now Share on Ovi.

For those who don’t know about Share for Ovi (twango), it is media sharing service; similar to flickr. You can upload pictures (as well as video) and then share them with your friends. Personally, I like the user interface of Share for Ovi. It is very clean and easy to navigate. It has a great potential. And by the way, they have a mobile version of their site too - http://mobile.twango.com. Point your camera to the barcode below (note that the URL may change in the future).

Twango

The current service is still beta. As such, there are still some important features missing. For example, the integration with the device is not seamless because lack of mobile client (this should be coming soon). The GPS coordinate embedded in the pictures, for example using Nokia Location Tagger, is also not parsed properly yet.

Twango - Share for Ovi Twango - Share for Ovi

How do we upload and share media using Share for Ovi?

  • You can always use PC to upload your media files via http://www.twango.com (the URL may change in the future). You can also use Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard, which allows you to upload a large numbers of media files.
  • How about mobile devices? Since there is no mobile client available yet; the only possibility is using email. Now you can use Nokia Online Share 3.0 to upload to Share on Ovi.
  • A couple of months back, The PhoneBoy Blog has posted a trick to upload your media files via Nokia Lifeblog.
    Unfortunately, I was not able to use the trick (not sure why though)

Bonus Links

Update (11-Feb-2008): Use Nokia Share Online to upload media files to Share on Ovi directly from your mobile device.