It seems that the jury is still out on Facebook's new Timeline presentation. Most people seem to like the way it draws a line through your life and presents your information in chronological order. UsualWords is a social share application that not only displays and shares your life events but allows others to connect and follow you and react and comment on your trends. And herein lies UsualWords' interesting underlying social experience. By aiming to track all of life's experiences the chance beckons to pass on knowledge and experience to your followers leading to a much more philanthropic take on ... Read more
Whilst social networks like Facebook and Twitter often promote charitable events one could hardly call them a social charity. Talkic, on the other hand, actively promotes itself as a social network where contributing to topics benefits causes. In real terms, that translates into Talkic donating US 1.1 cents to one of 20 Canadian charities every time you click on a topic when signed in. Talkic is a social network where topics are friends and where by clicking or contributing to a topic you will indirectly be benefitting various causes. Just by contributing to topics Talkic donates 1.1 cents for ... 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
Roamz was featured as one of the Australian Business Review Weekly's top 10 start ups to watch recently. It's a clever little real time application for your mobile that shows the user completely up-to-date information of what's going on in your local area. It does this by gathering, collating and curating information from the social side of the Internet and delivering it to you based on your particular interests and preferences. Roamz is a free iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app that makes sense of social media noise in real time to show users up-to-date information about what is ... Read more
If you aren't aware of Pinterest by now then you probably won't be too intested in this nice little social monitoring app that could be called its bastard cousin. Pinpuff, while not directly connected with the latest social networking phenomena after Facebook and Twitter, is a useful, fun and free spin off that aims to build a network of Pinterest users and calculate their Pinfluence using a very clever algorithm. Pinpuff is building an awesome network of Pinterest users with their Pinfluence and Pin value calculated. Pinfluence is a measure of your popularity, influence, activity and reach on Pinterest ... Read more
I love the idea that AgoraPulse regard themselves as the Swiss Army Knife of social media monitoring applications. So what does it mean? Well, it basically means that this customer relations manager and its suite of marketing tools has a tool for everything you might need to manage your Facebook pages, gain more fans and through traffic which can lead to a better return on income. No longer can you set up a Facebook page to advertise your project or event and forget about it - AgoraPulse gives you all the armory to keep your page front and center. ... Read more
Need an answer to a sticky question fast? You could go to places like Quora, Stack Overflow or Yahoo Answers but why not try this much more social Q&A application Junglr. Here is a place where you can ask your questions, take your place in debates and polls and learn and share information with social friends and the rest of the world. Junglr then turns your queries into a gamifying experience by awarding points to 'buy' all sorts of stuff. Junglr is a new question and answer site built around speed and usability. From the simple act of Q&A ... Read more
We have reviewed many expense and money tracking apps in the last few weeks - Budget With Back In Black, My Weekly Budget and In-Ex Finance to name just three - it must be a sign of the times. The fact is, with over 80% of Americans stressed about their personal finances, it's probably time that you took matters into your own hands and organized your finances a little better. Spentable is a very fast and efficient expense tracker that you will more than likely use. It's a simple and user-friendly iPhone and Android app that will help you budget ... Read more
Spotwag goes some way to solving the neverending problem with what to do with your pet when you go on holiday. Do you put them in an expensive pet stay place with people they dont know in a place they dont know either? Or do you co-ordinate help from the friends you have out there that you already know and trust? Sounds like a much better bet to me and so much more pleasant and relaxed for your pet. Everyone's a winner. You can use Spotwag to coordinate help for your pet from friends you already trust and you ... Read more
You may have noticed the plethora of apps being made available to make your Facebook Timeline banner look ever more glorious. Facebook Photo Maker follows similar design apps like Facebook Timeline Cover Maker, Picscatter and NewFBCover but, of course, it delivers a slightly different take on the banner process. This design application for your favorite social network that allows you to use your own photos and add personal messages to create a totally unique and beautiful looking Facebook Timeline experience for all your friends to see and admire. Facebook’s new Timeline Cover Photo is a large banner-like photograph at ... Read more