To truly compete as a small business In your local area it is a good idea to be aware of what your competitors are doing and be able to adapt to any promotions they have going. If the pizza store down the road has a two-for-one deal going on you'd better have a pretty good pizza to be able to compete with them. Perch is a local marketing business tracking tool for smartphone that monitors social media and promotional activity for businesses in your local neighborhood. It's a mobile app designed for small business owners that delivers a live, ... Read more
Streamd.in is a localized geolocation app for Android, iPad and iPhone that attempts to take your Twitter account to a different level. It focuses tweets emanating from specific places the world over and delivers them complete with location map and, as an added bonus, you can even chat and video chat with your fellow tweeters. You can browse tweets from your local neighborhood or concentrate on a specific city or any countries around the world. Streamd.in for IOS and Android is a free and easy to use browser-based and geolocation based Twitter client. The primary focus of the app ... Read more
It was Andy Warhol who said that in the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. Meriad doesn't offer quite that much time but it does offer you 30 seconds to record your thoughts for the rest of the world to see and hear. This free video microblogging social application for your mobile let's you capture moments in your life rather like a Twittering video diary where your friends and the rest of the world can get a glimpse into your world - 30 seconds at a time. Meriad.co is a new social networking platform that enables you ... Read more
The way it stands at the moment when I find an interesting webpage that I want to hang on to and look at again later with my friends I do one of two things. I'll either save it to the myriad that is Facebook or I'll bookmark it into another myriad of messiness. Meaki turns the whole bookmarking thing on it's head by making it social. It's a microblogging and sharing application where you can collect and share the cool web pages you find and it presents them in a great looking package. It's almost the Flipboard for web pages. ... 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
LocAlerts is a damned good geolocation based reminder board that would be absolutely brilliant for a road trip or a holiday away. Keep this search and reminder tool on your iPad or your iPhone and it will give you the perfect way to research your trip as well as giving you the ability to add stuff as you go. So its easy to note down a virtual to-do list before you go and add details like addresses and phone numbers of friends and sights and any other stuff that you need to make a note of along the way. And ... Read more
Dear oh dear, whatever next? I guess I’m getting a bit too old for new crazes in the pubs and bars of the world but just reading the developers blurb for this one gives a strong enough hint that the art of conversation and personal interaction is sadly on the way out. There is obviously a market for something like this as the site points out what we all know already. That is on that many a night out with a group of friends at least half of them will spend more time tapping away at their cell phones than taking part ... Read more
There's always the old epithet of 'less is more' but it isn't always true. For some there's no point in getting nothing but the whole story when reading the news. All the juicy information on all the stories. However, that isn't always possible to achieve. We lead very busy lives but that doesn't mean that you can't keep up with what's going on in the world. Headlynes is a microblogging social news application that let's you read and deliver news headlines in 77 characters or less so you can get a kinda potted history of the top stories going around. ... 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