Touchnote

Touchnote
Mobile application
Founded 2008
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Key people
Products iOS, Android
Website touchnote.com

Touchnote is a mobile app for smartphones and website for sending printed, personalised postcards and greeting cards. The Android and iPhone apps and website are periodically updated with new features.

Touchnote was first launched in 2008[1][2][3] and is based in London.

Company profile

The company was founded by Raam Thakrar and Paul Burdin in 2008, and was launched to the public in November 2008.[4] The Touchnote apps and website convert users' photos into postcards and greeting cards which are printed and posted by Touchnote on behalf of the user.

Touchnote cards

The Touchnote app and website allows users to send personalised postcards and greeting cards, using their own photos. Cards are sent anywhere in the world with a functioning postal system, but are printed and posted from print centres based in the UK, USA, Germany and Australia. The postcards are 6 x 4 inch, and the greeting cards are 7 x 5 inch, printed with a gloss finish.

In 2014, the Touchnote iPhone app was updated to allow photo collage cards to be created, where the user could add multiple photos onto one card.

In March 2009, Touchnote released an API which allows other sites to integrate into their print on demand system. This includes photos from Facebook and from Picasa.[5]

Mobile applications

In May 2009, the company released an application on the Nokia OVI store[6] which allowed users to use photos on their phone to make cards. It was the first application on the OVI store which produced a physical product. The app was voted the must-have entertainment app of 2010 by Ovi users.[7]

The company first released an iPhone application in September 2009 with similar functionality.[8]

In June 2010 an Android application was released with similar functionality.

In October 2010 a Windows Phone 7 app was launched. This included additional features such as photo crop and zoom and ability for users to sign their cards.[9] The Windows Phone 7 app is no longer supported by Touchnote.

Data breach

On 4 November 2015, Touchnote suffered a data breach in which customer names, email addresses, order histories and home addresses were stolen.[10] In their official statement on 5 November, the company also confirmed that some dates of birth had been accessed, along with some card recipient's names and postal addresses.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ "Touchnote Wants to Bring Back the Postcard". Mashable.com. 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  3. ↑ "It's Personal | Everywhere". DailyCandy.com. 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  4. ↑ "Touchnote Wants to Bring Back the Postcard". Mashable.com. 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  5. ↑ Butcher, Mike. "Europe - The latest innovative tech coming out of Europe | TechCrunch". Uk.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  6. ↑ Butcher, Mike. "Europe - The latest innovative tech coming out of Europe | TechCrunch". Uk.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  7. ↑ Archived January 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ Butcher, Mike. "Europe - The latest innovative tech coming out of Europe | TechCrunch". Uk.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  9. ↑ "Microsoft News - Touchnote: Hello from Hawaii". Microsoft-news.tmcnet.com. 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  10. ↑ "Touchnote postcard app suffers data breach". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  11. ↑ "Touchnote breach: Wrote a postcard with us? Thieves have your pal's name, address". Theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160203141458/https://updates.touchnote.com/. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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