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This week’s BOTW is @zprater1 :

Zach is a 20 year old from the United States and he posts really cool booths! Sometimes he even draws fun little characters to join him He’s a dedicated dailybooth user and has snapped 247 photos so far

Check him out and give him a follow!

Hey boothers!

We’re gearing up to launch a completely revamped (and awesome) DailyBooth iPhone app. It’s going to be really great for iPhone users but unfortunately not everyone has an iPhone!

We’d really like to get a better sense of the kinds of phones boothers use so we can try and build apps that work on all the popular platforms.

So please, click here and tell us which phone you have or are planning on buying soon.

We’re starting “Boother of The Week” here on the DailyBooth blog!

If you ever come across a boother who blows your mind or is insanely amazing, send us an email to to hello@dailybooth.com explaining why they should be ‘Boother of The Week’

The ‘Boother of The Week’ will be promoted here on the DailyBooth Blog for all to see! So they must be AWESOME! Can’t wait to see your submissions! (can be for a cool thread, an interesting question, or an overall interesting boother!)

Love,
The DailyBooth Team

Dailyboothers!

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We’re very excited to announce that we’re opening our DailyBooth API for private beta. DailyBooth is an active an engaged community. So far the majority of boothing has been from laptops but we want this to change.

We’re looking for the developers who are interested in creating apps on a number of platforms including:

We’re looking for fun, well designed apps that allow boothing on the go, features including:

Basically, the entire DailyBooth experience.

Please contact us if you’re interested by emailing: apply@developers.dailybooth.com

It’s finally here. Apple has just approved the long awaited dailybooth iPhone app! It’s out. Like, right now. Pull out your iPhone and search for “dailybooth” or grab it from iTunes. It’s free.

We’re all really excited about this. The front facing camera on the new iPhone 4 is absolutely perfect for boothing. You’ll be able to show your followers what you’re doing instantly, where ever you are. Bored on the bus? No problem! Whip out your iPhone and see what your dailybooth friends have been up to. Talking with someone but need to go to work? That’s fine! You can continue the conversation on the move.

We’ve been using the app internally for a few weeks and it changes everything.

But what does it do?!

That’s it for now but @mattn is hard at work adding more features. Soon anything you can do on the website you’ll be able to do in the app, including messaging.

Is there anything that you’d like to see in future versions? Anything we could improve? Please let us know what you think!

There were so many great entries that it was incredibly hard to whittle this down to 3 winners. A big thanks to @roberto and everyone at Throwboy for making this competition possible.

So, in no particular order, the winners…

@nerdyislandgirl

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This picture thread was well and truly epic. @nerdyislandgirl embarked on the very brave task of drawing everybody who replied. Awesome!

@jerryhcooke

@jerryhcooke‘s idea of making a flickbook style animation out of the picture replies he received seemed crazy at first but amazingly it actually worked. He even mashed the pictures up into a video.

@wheezywaiter

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@wheezywaiter dumping water over the comment thread (and subsequently all the commenters) was most entertaining.

Congratulations you three! You each win a Throwboy pillow of your choice. Send me a message letting me know which pillow you want and where to send it.

Sorry if you didn’t win this time. We’ll be having another competition again soon.

We will be taking DailyBooth down for a little while on Saturday at 3am EST. We don’t expect the site to be down more than an hour, but it is possible that DailyBooth could be down for slightly longer.

This downtime is for maintenance only and you will not notice any changes to the site afterwards. This should hopefully result in DailyBooth no longer having slow load times during peek hours.

For you technical people out there, this is what we are doing…

Basically, we are just modifying some of the database table structures. We will be modifying indexes to some of the larger database tables. We will also be implementing some new code which will allow us to archive some of the older dashboard entries, although still allowing users to access this information without removing it completely. This is something we must add simply because the size of a few database tables which have grown much larger than expected and will continue to grow.

Today we rolled out an interesting new feature called the “live map feed“. This is a real time map of the world that updates and zooms around when new members snap a picture. It goes hand in hand with our current live feed but now you can see where in the world the pictures are being snapped.

The picture locations are based on user IP addresses and are only city-specific. If you’d like your pictures not to be displayed in the live feeds you can now check a box in your settings to opt out of them.

We’re working on lots of other cool stuff so stay tuned!