The way we choose the hotels we stay in around the world is definitely changing with the technology that's available these days. Up until now it's been a case of trawling through sites and comparing prices and locations for your given destination. HotelMaps is a simple to use travel and map app that changes things somewhat by delivering an informative overview of the best accommodation available in your desired location and with room prices at your fingertips. Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure this year, location will be a key factor in choosing a hotel. Is the ... Read more
LicenseQuote is the missing link in the process that means that the independent musician can actually become totally independent. It's a licensing e-commerce solution for independent musicians, music publishers, music labels, catalogs and libraries that licenses compositions and recordings straight from their own website and enabling them to keep every last cent of sales revenues. LicenseQuote is a music licensing e-commerce solution Software As A Service (SAAS) that provides a powerful array of publishing and licensing tools for music publishers to set up and manage their own branded licensing store on their own websites to facilitate licensing sales transactions ... Read more
If you are serious about your online business you will no doubt adopt several different tools to analyze how your website is performing. The are so many different kinds of analytical tools available out there right now. Tools where you can check your traffic and even tools to work out which parts of your site are working better than others. But two areas that arent often analyzed are how others see you from different countries around the world and how your competitors sites look compared to your own. Proxypic is an analytical tool that gives you a great overview of ... Read more
It used to be that the best form of advertising for your movie was purely word-of-mouth. When you saw a movie that you liked you would tell your friends who would tell their friends and so on. The movies became a very social occasion. MovieGoer is a social movie and video sharing app for your iPhone that tries to put the social back into movie going. It uses peer pressure to encourage more people to actually go to the movies rather than catching a film on video. MovieGoer is a new kind of mobile app that applies social networking ... Read more
The thought of sheet music immediately makes me think about very serious musicians in an orchestra or a piano musician in a bar playing Frank Sinatra classics. I'm totally wrong, of course, but that's the image that comes into my head. In reality more and more sheet music is being accessed by musicians over the Internet. Tonara is a sheet music app for your iPad that takes sheet music well and truly into the 21st Century by turning it into a fun and very cool interactive experience. Read more
PulseRadio is an immense online electronic music portal and radio channel tool that connects the artist to his audience as well as managers, labels, clubs, festivals and promoters. It can also have the ability to turn you into a megalomaniac DJ programmer overnight. Electro music people can be a weird bunch. You can often pick them by their twitchy faces and the constant tapping of their foot whenever they hear that strangely uplifting music that electronic can be. PulseRadio gives you the ability to unleash and advertise your own music out into the stratosphere by creating your own personal channel. Read more
Well here's a new one. There have been social networking sites for everything from business to craftspeople so why not a social network for musicians (Ed, nod to MySpace). BandLink is a networking app specifically geared towards bands and musicians and it's aim is to connect the humble muso with other similar types worldwide. Read more
If you've traveled a fair bit you'll know that the best way to discover a new city is to talk to local people. There's no better way to come to grips with a city that to discover it's underbelly and to go where the locals go and not so much where the tourists go. Unanchor is a travel and social app that was developed after a year long trip through Asia and much ploughing through Lonely Planet guides to find the more interesting side of a city that isn't normally seen by travelers. It features detailed guides written by locals ... Read more
I've lost count of the times when I've agreed to meet friends at a particular bar or restaurant and one of us haven't been able to find the place. EchoEcho is a geo-social tool for your mobile that let's you find exactly where anyone in your address book is at any time of the day or night. And they will show you with the added benefit of a map showing you how to find them. Texting your location is like dancing your phone number. EchoEcho shows you exactly where you and your friends are on a map. No more wasting ... Read more
I love meeting up with old friends and talking about the stuff they are listening to on the radio. Its always funny when i ask which station and they tell me about some obscure radio station I've never heard of. The tell me it just plays stuff they want to hear with little or no intervention from mouthy DJ's. Bliss. Myxer Social Radio is a bit like that. Myxer is a free social networking and chat tool for your desktop and mobile that provides a music service that changes the way you interact musically with your friends. Read more