I have a friend who runs a cafe locally and I checked out the online reviews for the place the other day. They varied from ultra-complimentary (probably written by themselves) to ultra-critical (probably written by people from rival cafes.) To be quite honest, it didn't tell me much about the place. The whole concept of reviews needs to be thrown back on the people that matter most - customers - and Sooligan is a social review site with a difference. It takes it's 'reviews' from the comments on the pages of social media to give you a much broader overview ... Read more
Since the glory days of movies, when Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide was to be seen on pretty much every film fan's bookshelf, all of us movie buffs have wanted to create a database of films we have watched. The Maltin guides would often feature movie reviews highlighted in different colors for 'films seen' and 'films not seen yet' and this is where a specific iPhone app is the obvious choice to take its place. Watched is a beautiful looking film tracking and review application where you can list, rate, review and share your personal movie collection with your friends. ... Read more
We've all heard the classic "Mission Impossible" sound bite where, after the agents have listened to the taped message, it announces that "this tape will self destruct in five seconds." Well, NoteShred is the online equivalent of the time-sensitive message. After you have sent your private note, message or document to the recipient you can decide how long they can have access to it. It ensures that you don't have important or private information isn't just sitting in someone's email in box where it could be access by others. You might have seen a couple of reviews that FeedMyApp ... Read more
Data monitoring seems to have come of age over recent years, especially since the app revolution really took off. Up until recent years, the fine art of analytics and monitoring was a rather turgid and time consuming experience that nobody really wanted to take on. But with analytical tools like Google Analytics, Convertable and now Librato to help you out, data monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business have become so much easier. Librato let's you measure everything you need in one place and keep all your applications running smoothly. Librato provides a complete cloud-based solution for ... Read more
I still find it quite amazing that so many businesses still use a pen and paper when booking appointments for customers - especially when there are online appointment schedule applications like BookerLooker available. Many will say its a costing problem and they can't afford it while others will say that they are too complicated to set up and maintain. So, how about if I said to you that I could find one that not only lets your customers book their appointments whenever they wanted and pick a time that suited both parties. And then how about if I told you ... Read more
The whole purpose of an analytics application like Positionly is to improve the outcome of your search engine optimization. The end result being a possible improvement in a website's SEO ranking. This iOS app provides a whole set of powerful tracking and flexible tools to analyze daily changes, measure keyword performance and generally improve rankings. It is a cost effective and simple to use answer to SEO analytics that works in real-time. Positionly is a user-friendly and easy to use SEO monitoring solution, making what could be a complex process, into a much more efficient and enjoyable experience. It ... Read more
Gablit is a new entertainment and recommendation, social search engine, born out of London a few years back, when three entrepreneurial types realized one night when they had lost their mobile phone, that trying to find the best entertainment available was turning into a full time job. They decided to develop this classy, informative, localized entertainment guide that encourages entertainers to promote their event and gives the audience a place to find out everything that is going on around them or wherever they are planning on visiting. Gablit solves a problem that people often find themselves having to deal ... Read more
A few years ago I tailored my skills as a writer by writing a blog for a video and DVD organization but I would spend half my time researching interesting information on what I thought my reading audience wanted to hear. These days, those same research skills are still used by writers and businesses worldwide though things are a wee bit better organized and analyzed in the techno savvy 21st Century. Inbound writer is an Internet marketing app for writers to optimize their online content and gives them a much clearer vision of what their viewing audience is talking about ... Read more
Staff training and evaluation used to be a quite labor-intensive and time consuming activity and generally used to involve bringing in people from outside the business who were trained in the process. This is disruptive for your staff as well as being somewhat costly. While this may be fine for multinationals it doesn't necessarily suit the budget of the smaller organization. SkyPrep is a new cloud-based, online LMS (Learning Management System) application that is designed to train and test your employees simply and easily. Upload all your source material, create tests and discover how your employees understand your business or ... Read more
The safety and security of your loved ones is what we are talking about here. Puntalo is a free phone tracking application that works on all smartphones - old and new - and let's you map where your kids are, when they get home and even track that phone you might have left on the bus on the way home. This easy to use app makes it simple to find the last position of up to five different smartphones and can even send you an SMS notification when they get home from school. You can even check what your partner ... Read more