App of the Month: ReverbNation enables fan management for music artists on MySpace
MySpace, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. empire, recently hit the headlines with news about layoffs and office shutdowns. The company urgently needs to reposition itself on the market. Going new directions, MySpace now tries to reverse its downward development trend. From now on the platform perceives itself as an entertainment portal, the days [...]
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We choose to go to the moon – Flash is alive
For all who says that Flash is bound to die here’s a great example of a flashbased website from the JFK Presedential Library and Museum: Marking the 40th anniversary of moonlanding and President Kennedy’s grand vision that made the achievement possible the site ‘We choose the moon‘ is an interactive re-creation of the first mission [...]
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My App of the Month: Zosh – no more print and sign and fax …
Here’s a great tool to increase accessibility to your documents while on-the-go: Zosh is a mobile document execution platform that lets mobile workers complete, sign and return forms from their mobile phones. So, the old fax-print-sign-fax-model [or the even worse fax-print-sign-scan-email-model] is out of date. See the video below: Zosh iPhone application video demo from [...]
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The Mobile App Stores summerized in Charts
Dutch app store analytics firm Distimo presented their findings on the six largest mobile application stores: The iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The winner is, of course: Apple. Android is now the second-largest application store with 19.297 apps. It’s still [...]
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Back to the Future: Trends of the next 5 Years
Watch the Past 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches FACEBOOK [Here a cool Facebook Song] 2005 Nintendo launches Wii [Delta Goodrem & Brian Mc Fadden play Tennis] YouTube starts and is said to be the Future of TV 2006 Web 2.0 changes User Habits [Here a Video about the Evolution of the Web] More than 1 Billion [...]
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My App of the Month: Marine Rules and Signals
Once again it is time for the summer holiday season – time to go sailing e.g.. There are hundreds of apps to measure windspeed or calculate tides. My personal favorite (Imray Rules and Signals) is an application to refresh the knowledge on navigation signs and sounds.
Changing dynamics of mobile gaming offers brands new opportunities
Mobile gaming has been around for some time. The initial Nintendo machines have been used by kids in the backseat of cars since the 90s. Many mobiles started to ship with basic games that have been used by casual gamers. Some games could also been downloaded to mobiles via SMS push. Serious gamers, however had [...]
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Geological Web: Answering the key questions of life
Currently a lot of media hype revolves (see bbc.co.uk or wired.com) around the geo or geographical web. This is defined as the linkage of the physical world with the internet. This mashup of location technologies (e.g. GPS chips) and the data stored on the web spawns interesting gadgets like the iNap iPhone application we featured [...]
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App of the month: brightkite
Combining location based services with social networks Brightkite is a fun community that also interfaces to Facebook or Twitter.
Crisis is starting to change online behavior
The financial crisis is starting to touch many aspects of people in various nations (not just Iceland). How are the changes in economic circumstances, user moods and fears changing online behavior? Here are some of the first noticeable changes: There are the first signs that the economic crisis is starting to change online behavior in [...]
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