Today, we’re launching our first international version of LiveShare! LiveShare is now localized for Japan, with full Japanese language support. Download LiveShare in Japanese for your Android phone today!

For this exciting launch, we’re partnering with KDDI, a major mobile carrier in Japan, to give their new and existing customers the opportunity to download LiveShare directly from the Home Screen on the newest KDDI phones.

We’re thrilled to extend our reach with new language support and make LiveShare more easily accessible to people around the world!

The new LiveShare version is out, which will be particularly exciting for all the iOS 5 users out there. The new update is now compatible with iOS 5!

In addition, the new home view will enable you to view all your updates in one place, whether it’s a new comment on your photo, a new photo someone added to a stream you are following, or a new stream that you are invited to. What’s extra cool about this new activity feed is that you can like and comment on photos directly in line, without having to load the full image first.

You can still find all the streams that you created and are following by tapping your profile photo.

The talented Christopher Drew and the rest of Never Shout Never are making a huge splash in the music world. And we could not be happier to be working with them on an exciting promotion.

Together with the House of Blues and Never Shout Never, we are super stoked to bring you a photo contest as unique as the band itself. Imagine if you were to see the band on the street (we can dream right!), what would you holler to get their attention? It could be one of their song lyrics, or a message to one of the band members, or maybe just something that you love. Whatever it is, get creative and crazy and jot down what you would shout to the band. Upload a photo of yourself with this Shout! message to the “Never Shout Never” stream on the mobile app, directly on the band’s Facebook page or on LiveShare.com.

Then share out your photo to Facebook, Twitter or e-mail to get all your friends to like your pic. The person who uploads the photo with the most “likes” will win an exclusive Q/A session with the band along with some super cool band merchandise.

So turn on some jams from their new album – “Time Travel” for inspiration and get ready to Shout! out loud your message to the band!

This morning, we released a brand new version of LiveShare for iPhone – get it now!

The new update now has a live news feed. You can now see updates from your friends, new streams you are invited to, and comments/likes on your photos from one live feed. You can also comment and like photos in-line without leaving your feed. This enables you to stay even more connected with your friends and never miss a thing!

We’ve also added more robust geo-location features. This means that you can now explore public groups created in your vicinity by going to liveshare.com on your mobile phone (location has to be enabled on Safari). What’s super awesome about this is that you can share with people in the same context as you, without having to be their Facebook friend or in each other’s contact lists.

Try using these public groups for your next conference, party, or the next wedding you go to, where you might not know everyone who is there, but still want to be able to see everyone’s shared content in the stream. To create a public group, simply create a group on liveshare.com on your desktop browser, and select “public”. This is also possible on Android phones already, and we will be bringing this feature to iPhone soon.

Get the new LiveShare now!

We’re excited to announce a brand new version of LiveShare! This new version has a much more beautiful and simplified home view, which makes the app experience easier than ever. In addition, we have increased speed and performance significantly so that you can snap and upload photos as those moments happen.

Here are three awesome new features in version 1.2.7:

Create public streams (Android and Web only, iPhone coming soon!)
In addition to creating private groups with your friends, you can now also create public streams that anyone can participate in. To create a public stream, just check the “Make this stream Public” box. You can share your public stream out to Facebook, Twitter, or just email them the link, so you no longer have to invite every friend separately and you can publish any content to the world!

Find public streams around you
Now, you can visit liveshare.com on the browser on your mobile phone to explore public groups created in your vicinity and launch into the app experience to join and participate in them. Try using this at large events like weddings, parties, or conferences, where you might not be friends with all the attendees, but still want to be able to see everyone’s photos in one place!

By bridging this gap between native and web experience, we’re making LiveShare more accessible to everyone – even those without the app on their phones, making LiveShare the easiest way to collect shared experiences anywhere with anyone.

Notification feed (Android only, iPhone coming soon!)
Lastly, we’ve added a drop-down notifications feed so that you can keep track of what’s new in your LiveShare circles!

We hope you enjoy this upgrade for Android, iPhone, and web! As always, let us know what you think in the comments below or email us.