All Entries in the "Application Nation" Category
Cash in Your Pocket for Location Check-ins: WeReward
While Foursquare is great fun for those looking to socially engage one another and find the occasional ‘Mayor’ special, WeReward is a rocketship of actual cash-based incentives waiting for savvy smartphone users to catch on. Launching at TechCrunch’s Disrupt, this application pays users directly through their PayPal account for doing things like ‘checking-in’ and ‘completing tasks.’
How Geo-location in Social Media and Mobile Advertising Will Change Everything
Heard of Foursquare? No? Well, it isn’t going away anytime soon – especially when it can literally walk consumers directly through the front door for businesses. (Hint: it gets people to use their mobile phones to tell friends when and where they are – Starbucks, an Irish Pub – you name it) Heard of AdMob? No? Well, they were this teeny tiny mobile-advertising company one guy named Omar Hamoui started in January of 2006 – and Google announced in November that they agreed to acquire the firm for a breath-taking $750 million in stock.
Twitter Growth: 140 Employees and 70,000+ Apps
With the explosive growth of Twitter applications, real-time search deals with major search engines, and the geo-location feature added in 2009 – Twitter is putting the power of tens of thousands of developers to work.
Twitter Applications for Everyone
Not sure what Twitter apps are good? Bad? Ugly? OneForty has got you covered. Find great Twitter applications based on user-reviews and even meet/view the developers who made them.
LinkedIn: Open Platform, New iPhone App
On November 23rd, LinkedIn opened their platform – permitting developers access to LinkedIn for the first time. TweetDeck immediately started integrating the platform into their software, and more applications are on the way using this new opportunity.
2010 Geo-Location: Social Media Year of “Where are you?”
Trending 2009, location-based social media APIs have been storming the social-sphere. If you look closely at how search engines have trended towards localization, it makes sense. Over the years, technology starts at a macro level and then evolves to service users on a more personal level. Now, social media is going to rapidly evolve from a macro level to a location-based micro-level.
Top Facebook Apps Leaderboard Statistics
As of today and according to a tracking system developed by Inside Facebook (which permits developers to submit their applications for the list) the top application on Facebook, with a commanding 63 million users, is FarmVille. This interactive game takes advantage of every possible user-generated sharing activity in the execution of game play, and it’s paying off time and time again.
Behold: The Power of Twitter Lists
So, what the heck is the big deal about Twitter’s new API that allows you to create a Twitter list?
It’s a big deal, and here are the reasons…
Creating these lists, even if you don’t post to Listorious, will start to cement you as an authority on the resourceful tweeters that other seek to find. In other words, other Twitterers look to you in order to find the people they should be following.
TubeMogul: Send Your Video Out To The World In One Upload
TubeMogul consolidates 25 video sharing communities into one single interface that will upload, insert tags, and monitor your video in all 25 video sharing sites simultaneously.
iPhone Application Review: RedLaser – Instant comparison shopping
RedLine has got to be one of the fastest iPhone applications to pay you back. Literally.
RedLine is a measely $1.99, but this iPhone application could pay for itself many times over…on it’s first use.
What does it do? The iPhone application instantly cans the bar code on almost any product and instantly searches the web for comparison prices…
Activate Your Natural Sales Force: Flip.to Leverages Social Media & Your Employees
At a time when some companies are completely banning social media in the office, and others are embracing it, it looks like Flip.to presents a compelling reason to keep your employees happy while you simultaneously give your bottom line more potential.
Build a potentially viral Twitter campaign in less than 5 minutes
We have heard of tons of strategies for Twitter promotions and marketing – and there is a new tool out there every 20 minutes to try and execute a campaign via Twitter. But here is one application so easy, and powerful, your Twitter promotion could go viral after only five minutes of setting up your promo.
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Enjoy writing about social media-based applications? The Social Media community is filled with talented individuals who create incredible strategic marketing plans to maximize the latest tools and resources, constantly test new ideas, follow the leading decision-makers to forecast new developments, applications, and integrated marketing plans and contribute to the community with their knowledge. Social Media [...]
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Enjoy writing about iPhone Applications? The Social Media community is filled with talented individuals who create incredible strategic marketing plans to maximize the latest tools and resources, constantly test new ideas, follow the leading decision-makers to forecast new developments, applications, and integrated marketing plans and contribute to the community with their knowledge. Social Media and [...]
