It's said that for every dollar invested in bettering the usability of your site there is potential for increasing your revenues tenfold. moustach.io is a usability app that encourages you to share your site with your social networking friends to get critical feedback and reviews on it's user-friendliness. They will aggregate all your reviews and feedback for a very cost effective monthly fee. Hiring professional reviewers has been known to cost upwards of US$40 per review. moustach.io is a business application to see how much we can learn about our software, web design and workflow by asking our friends, ... Read more
One thing that's proven tricky in the past when advertising or promoting your event or product (or yourself, if it comes to that) on Facebook has been the virtual seminar. Evinar may well sound like a Arthurian adventure but in this case it's a rather wonderful event promotion application for Facebook to host any number of live events for your business (ad)venture. Here you can arrange casual hook ups, host group chat sessions and watch promotional videos with your fans and, if you are just running the one Facebook page, it's totally free. Evinar is a safe and secure ... Read more
Assuming you have a job posting to offer it makes sense to get the position out to as many of the right people that you possibly can. Zip Recruiter is a business tool to ensure that the job you have to offer reaches out to those people via twenty five of the top job boards and social networks. What's more, it does it faster, easier and cheaper than ever before and does it all from one single submission. ZipRecruiter is an innovative web-based platform that makes job posting faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before. ZipRecruiter distributes your job ... Read more
Despite the fact that our computers are loaded up with heaps of services we've set up over time, the truth is, we really only use a few of them regularly. kaanzi is a search and organize application that allows us to polarize the things we view on a regular basis. It's a command shell that optimizes web time by gearing your Internet time to the things you like most whether it be email, the weather, your favorite sporting team or the latest YouTube sensation. The idea of kaanzi is to access and utilize services across the web through a ... Read more
If you've ever put a blog or website together you will know what a pain it is to display relevant items and keep them up to date. ShowSpace is a free app that makes it easy for you to gather all sorts of products from all over the web and display them on your blog or website as a way of monetizing your hard work. For example, if you were promoting an artist or band you could not only display their discography but also books, Tshirts and other merchandise associated with them. And so you dont have to keep checking ... Read more
There'll be figures every month in the newspapers telling us how inflation is on the rise or falling and we all collapse in shock and awe. Sticker Shock is a finance tracking application for iPhone that allows you to put those figures into their true perspective and to check your shopping prices as they rise or fall over weeks months or years. It's a quick, easy and attractive app where you can track the price of items you buy on a regular basis. Life's getting expensive, isnt it? Tired of costs spiraling out of control and never remembering what ... Read more
I was watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain's excellent No Reservations show a few years ago and, whilst drinking and eating with locals in the mountains somewhere in Asia, Bourdain holds up his glass and shouts "Damn Skippy!" Why would a native New Yorker like him be uttering a phrase that is so obviously Australian and yet I'd never heard it before? Well, So Slang is a search engine where you can get that information. Its an easy to use free urban slang wiki dictionary where you can your own meaning to the millions of slang words featured. So ... Read more
It seems the days of the humble business card are nearly numbered. The introduction of a digital identity application like cloudcard almost registers them obsolete when so much information can be kept more efficiently and attractively on your mobile phone in the guise of this marketing tool. Basically, cloudcard allows you to create your own personal app where clients can click your personal icon with all your information. This includes email, links, directions to your office and even a personal introduction video, which are displayed at the touch of your mobile phone. Cloudcard allows any business person to have ... Read more
Research, as anyone who has seriously dabbled in it will know, can be a very time-consuming occupation if you want to do it properly. Factbrowser is a social and business research and marketing application for your mobile phone that simplifies research by collating all the best and most relevant results of your search from some of the most respected publications the world over. While it's pretty easy to Google or Bing your searches, Factbrowser hunts down specifically relevant publications based on the information you are looking for. Factbrowser is the discovery engine for the most compelling facts and is ... Read more
There are endless ways of advertising your product on Facebook. There seems to be another innovation every couple of months and BrandMask certainly throws it's keys onto the table with this social Facebook advertising application. Brandmask is a free application where you can mark the brands you like in various fields then the social side kicks in and you can find people who think similarly and receive special offers from the relevant brands. BrandMask is a fascinating new kind of social advertising application for Facebook. The general idea is to go there create your own "Brand-Profile" and mark a ... Read more