It’s no secret that I absolutely love Pixelpipe on my Nokia devices. It lets me upload my photos, videos, and even files to existing multiple services like Flickr, Facebook, Twitpic, yFrog, etc. I just learned they’re releasing plugins for the Nokia N900 to make it easier for new users that just want to upload to a single service. Check it out.

Sharing a photo to Twitter from Nokia N900

The first round of plugins sent to Nokia for the upcoming Ovi store include:

• Blogger
• FTP
• Photobucket
• Pixelpipe (update)
• TinyPic
• Twitter
• yfrog
• YouTube

Download

These plugins are expected to be available in the Ovi store when it finally launches for the Nokia N900, but the adventurous users can install them now. Brett Butterfield, the CEO of Pixelpipe, was cool enough to let the Nokia blog’s readers have a preview.

Instructions

1. Download and unzip this file.
2. Watch my guide how to install the .deb files on Nokia N900
3. Setup the account under Settings – Sharing accounts.

Why?

Since I’ve been using Pixelpipe for a while now, I wanted to know the idea behind creating individual plugins. Here’s what Brett has to say.

Discoverability: As new users go to the application catalog they’ll typically search on the service name they’re looking to add to their device. Most application catalogs can’t index all of our service names so a user would have to know that Pixelpipe could upload to yfrog for example. We’ve released a number of single service applications on Android already and I have to admit that several are more popular then the Pixelpipe versions of the same application just because of discoverability.

Ease of use: From the optimized signup flow to the ease of just selecting the icon you want at the time of upload these plug-ins are just simple to use. While an experienced Pixelpipe user would use routing tags to send to a specific service that feature is just too complicated for many users, they can now select the service that they want from an icon and know that the media will only upload to the service of their choice.

Simple to create: The logic that isolates the plug-in to a specific service happens on the Pixelpipe servers. What this means is that we can create a service specific plug-in by simply changing the OAuth key, graphics and any text strings. When the plug-in connects to our servers with a service specific key we automatically tune the sign-up flow and isolate uploads to just the desired service. At this point we can create and test a Maemo plug-in in under an hour so expect more to come if they’re popular!

I think it’s great that it’ll be easier for new Nokia N900 users to find and use these single service plugins. However, I would recommend using the main Pixelpipe plugin that supports multiple services once they are familiar with how it works.