There has not been a huge amount of new innovation in newspapers for quite a few years unless you count their shrinking sizes and circulation. However, there is one new trick that you might have noticed recently. Have you seen those little tags attached to stories or pictures in your newspaper or magazine that are interactive? When you scan them with your smartphone you are taken to other related links and multimedia content that explains the story more. Taggstar is a new social publishing and sharing application that turns your two dimensional web page into a third dimension multimedia platform ... Read more
While GPS is a marvelous thing there are times in life where it's not quite enough to get you to the place you are looking for. In a business sense, it is vitally important that your customers can find you easily. POCode was designed originally when the developers were having a meltdown while trying to find a potential customer using only their GPS to find them. They longed for a map or some other foolproof way of locating their destination and came up with the idea of POCode. Think of it like this. If there are barcodes for things to ... Read more
Trivia games are always winners, aren't they. For some unfathomable reason you always want to answer one more question. BattleQuiz is a seriously addictive social trivia game for iOS and Android that features over 10,000 questions covering eight different topics. You can challenge your friends and test your knowledge at the same time on subjects including music, television, movies and even social media. BattleQuiz is a social trivia game in which friends compete against each other in challenging quiz battles. BattleQuiz provides players with a fun way to test their knowledge on various subjects ranging from Film & TV, ... Read more
There is a train of thought that says that after you have created a Facebook event and shared it then thats all the hard work done. Of course that rarely works and, to make a truly successful event, you need to diversify and co-ordinate your campaign across several different outlets and social networks. Crowd.fm Helps everyone from event promoters, venues, bands, musicians and DJ's co-ordinate and maximize their exposure by helping put together a personalized social network campaign that run simultaneously. Crowd.fm helps everyone connected to the fine art of gig or event promotion maximise the exposure for their ... Read more
The Internet is a weird evolving object that springs up more than a few surprises. People can be even weirder. If you have read any Malcolm Gladville you will be well aware of the organized chaos that we live in. Take social networks for example. I remember a friend telling me not long after Facebook's inception to "just sign up" and it wasn't that long before its reputation grew and the "Tipping Point" was reached. Now it is getting close to a billion users and everyone from cute Kentucky girls to Sherpas in Tibet seems to have an account. Add ... Read more
It never ceases to amaze and amuse me when I still see what I consider to be intelligent people belittling and refusing to get involved in social media. I hate to tell you this but it isnt going away in the near future. In fact, as more people realize the promotional and advertising potential of Facebook and Twitter etc, the more prominent and essential they will become in our brand promotion and publicity. And that's where Postano comes in very useful by automatically aggregating relevant social content across all your social networks and displaying them on your own website, on ... Read more
Look, I have to tell you, Loc.Book was undoubtedly developed with people like me in mind. It's not that I get lost on a regular basis but, put me in one of those massive Westfield type multilevel shopping complexes that was probably designed by that Gruen fellow, and I'm a complete mess. Half the time I can't even remember which floor the shop I want to visit is on let alone it's location. I could use the store locator, I guess, but I could also use an app like Loc.Book to find my way back directly to the store I'm ... Read more
The way you share information through your social network can, at times, be a little flawed. It's all very well if the story you are trying to tell is specific to your social friends but what about if you want to get your message across to people in your local area for advertising or promotional purposes? You could fiddle with your Facebook settings and send your message to local friends and hope they pass it on or you can turn to something a little more specific. Sunlize offers a different way of spreading the word through your local area and ... Read more
when.me is a schedule and reminder application for mobile that will ensure that you and your friends will never forget an event again, that's for sure. So why is it different to all the other scheduling apps available? Well, when.me adds a social element to proceedings and can even use Facebook and Twitter to give you a constant reminder of events you might want to get involved in with your friends. You can track your friends' future plans and add photos (before and after the event, if you like.) In reality, when.me acts as a virtual calendar where you can ... Read more
If I had to nail down PersonSpot to a specific style I would probably have to say that it's a bit like a Flipboard that you can totally personalize to your own specifications. That puts this social publishing application into an interesting place in the marketplace because, where Flipboard tends to be a purely personal magazine, PersonSpot opens up the opportunity for personal brand promotion and advertising. Here you can create and publish online social magazines with content aggregated from your social feeds, from content found anywhere on the net or stuff you create yourself. PersonSpot is a social ... Read more