Quicker Hoccer
We have fine-tuned and optimised our Hoccer backend services. The latency has been much improved, the Hoccer App feels much more responsive.
We have fine-tuned and optimised our Hoccer backend services. The latency has been much improved, the Hoccer App feels much more responsive.
Time for a change. The idea of this new site was to produce a clean and lean design, making it easy to understand HOCCER and easy to navigate. Over the next weeks we’ll further improve the site and most importantly add better feedback channels.
All credit for this great site to Peter, our Art Director.
For x.commerce innovate 2011 Hoccer teamed up with PayPal and Missionfish.org for showing Hoccer’s API abilities in a whole new way compared to what you saw on your phone so far. We coded a WebApp and a donation wall with which a charity (in our example it was the American Cancer Society) can collect donations for it’s cause. But how does this work?
The charity uses one or more large displays or projectors to show the donation wall (our example can be found here) which acts like a blackboard where all donations are shown to the audience of an event, a prom or similar. People who would like to donate use there smartphone to open a short URL (our example can be found here), the opened website shows a short form where the donor types in his name, an email address, a short comment and an amount. To send his donation the donor just makes a throw gesture with his phone (or taps a button in case the phone doesn’t support this) and the donation will be shown on the wall including the name,the comment and the amount the donor entered. To pay his donation the donor will receive an invoice using PayPal’s Invoice API
If you want to try our example just open the wall on your PC using a modern Browser (Chrome, Safari or Firefox) and open the WebApp on your phone. But remember: This is real! So please pay your donation
. Also we put the code in a public github repository so if you want to use this for own charity feel free to use our example code. The backend was made by Ali Minaei from PayPal UK, thank you!
Hoccer just released Hoccer 2.2 for iOS. This update includes support for iOS 5 and also includes several new features including full video support, so now you can hocc videos without any hustle. Also this new version includes support for hoccering music out of your device’s iPod. For this Hoccer has to convert the selected song into a new format, this can take some time and also only DRM-free songs can be converted. Here is a quick list of what else has changed in Hoccer 2.2 for iOS:
If you have found any bugs or if you have a idea how to improve Hoccer on iPhone don’t hesitate to write my a note philip@hoccer.com
Good news everyone!
We revamped the Hoccer WebApp! First of all, we gave the WebApp a complete new design and user interface. We also made some changes on how you use the WebApp. You are now able to select your mobile device or even another WebApp which runs on the same location, so you are able to exchange content between two WebApps. We also added a mobile theme. So you can use Hoccer with people, who haven‘t installed Hoccer on their device yet. The mobile theme also supports Blackberrys. Last but not least, you can reach the WebApp now under hocc.it! It was never easier to exchange data!
We are always open to new suggestions to improve the user experience, so feel free to contact us!
Gute Nachrichten!
Wir haben die Hoccer WebApp komplett überarbeitet! Sie hat nicht nur ein neues Design und User Interface bekommen, sie ist jetzt auch einfacher zu benutzen. Du kannst jetzt Geräte in Deiner Nähe mit der WebApp verbinden, dies kann sogar eine andere WebApp sein. Außerdem haben wir ein Mobile Theme hinzugefügt. Jetzt kannst Du Hoccer Menschen Zeigen, die die App noch nicht auf ihrem Gerät installiert haben. Das Mobile Theme unterstützt außerdem Blackberrys. Du kannst die WebApp unter hocc.it erreichen. Es war nie einfacher Daten auszutauschen.
Wir freuen uns immer über Vorschläge und Anregungen, um Hoccer zu verbessern, und freuen uns deshalb über Dein Feedback.
From today on there is a new release of HoccerWall online. We have built in some new features with which you may already familiar from the latest version of our clients on smartphones. Because we implemented our newest functionality to the javascript-api you may now for example not only restrict your wall to the last sender but all clients in your area.
Feature list:
Coming with those new features there are some changes for the javascript-api as well. We implemented core functionality into the API such as the peek-method, which is designed to show all client grouped with your client. In addition for all our JavaScript-Developers it is now possible to name your WebApp, select clients in your group for restricted send and receive or to just delete your own client instantaneously for a clean closing. You can view those methods and how to use them in our javascript-api-documentation.
See how it works and feel the new usability now…
Ab heute ist die neue Version der HoccerWall online. Damit haben wir den Funktionsumfang der Wall erweitert und bieten nun auch die aus den letzten Versionen der Clients für Smartphones bekannten Funktionen an. Da wir dazu auch unsere JavaScript-Api erweitert haben, ist es nun zum Beispiel möglich den Empfang der Wall nicht nur auf den letzten Sender zu beschränken sondern auf jeden Client in der Umgebung.
Neue Funktionen:
Im Zusammenhang mit diesen neuen Funktionen haben wir auch die JavaScript-Api angepasst. Wir haben die API um die “peek”-methode erweitert, so dass nun auch über JavaScript Clients die Teilnehmer ihrer Gruppe anzeigen lassen können. Zusätzlich ist nun für JavaScript-Entwickler mögliche mit ihren WebApplikationen Namen zu setzen, ausgewählte Clients zu übergeben oder den eigenen Client sauber beim HoccerServer zu löschen. Die neuen und alten Methoden können in unserer JavaScript-Api-Dokumentation nachgelesen werden.
Hoccer wurde von PayPal (Dtld.) zum jährlichen Partnerevent am 06. Juni 2011 in das Museum Hamburger Bahnhof eingeladen. Vor rund 100 E-Commerce-Unternehmen und Online-Händlern demonstrierte unser CEO Pavel Mayer zukünftige Möglichkeiten des digitalen Geldtransfers. Mit sogenannten “Hoclets” können dynamische Web-Inhalte in Apps dargestellt werden, mit deren Hilfe unter anderem die gestengesteuerte Übertragung von Geldbeträgen zwischen internetfähigen Endgeräten abgebildet werden kann.
Meet us form 12.-13.4. at the Internet World fair in Munich, at the ICM, booth number F 121. You receive first hand information from our representatives. We provide information about our products, partner programs, job opportunities, and cooperations. For appointments, call +49 30 24 63 09 89 or email to contact@hoccer.com
Hoccer wird sich vom 12.-13.4. auf der Internet World Messe im ICM München, am Stand F 121 präsentieren. Treffen Sie uns, um neuste Informationen über Hoccer zu erhalten. Termine können unter +49 30 24 63 09 89 oder per Email contact@hoccer.com gemacht werden.
The Hoccer Apps for Android and iOS will now display preview images of content which takes some time to download:

This greatly speeds up the time until you see what has been delivered and hence improves the overall perception. We also added this feature to the Hoccer Wall at http://wall.hoccer.com. Now it’s ultra fast! Try it your self!
Because we wanted to use the Hoccer Wall for our Linccer Tech Talk at Droidcon Berlin, we added a useful Lock-Feature:

If restrict to last thrower is activated, the Wall will only display content which comes from who ever had thrown the latest picture. So if you like to give a presentation and don’t want to be interruped: