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An app for consumers to playfully connect with brands. In a thrustworthy and straight forward way.
Everyone talks about how important it is to build an iPhone or Android app, but it doesn’t look inexpensive or easy. Until now. I’ve been testing appsbar, a free Web-based app that allows small business owners create their own iOS or Android application.
I found appsbar.com when researching the digital coupon phenomenon (think Groupon and Living Social) and discovered a post by appsbar founder Scott Hirsch, who built the tool, in part, as a do-it-yourself coupon service. From the merchant point of view, the pricing of coupons is expensive. Most business owners considering coupons could benefit from a tool that lets you build it yourself and keep the profit margins higher...
The new iOS 5 goes live soon, bringing with it revamped notifications and more than 200 new features for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. These are the top ten, and then some more. Some of these features you already had in your iPhone or iPad. They just came in third-party apps. If you used apps like the must-have WhatsApp, which allows you to message in an extremely easy way with all kinds of phones for free, you already were enjoying something like iMessage (even while iMessage adds important services, like device-wide conversation synchronization)...
TiPb checks out the best, most must-have RSS news feed reader apps to load up on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch Have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and curious which are the best, most must-have RSS feed reading apps you need to check out? We’ve already covered readers in general, from eBooks to comics, but this time we really wanted to focus on RSS news. So if you want to keep your syndication really simple, and yourself up to date with the latest new, read on for TiPb’s top 5 most recommended RSS feed readings apps for iOS...
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
Up until a few weeks ago I had a Content Curation methodology I was happy with, then something changed. Part of successful Blogging is reading a lot, and I mean a lot. I have often got 2 or 3 books on the go. I’m scanning Twitter and Google+ hourly, I subscribed to some key source newsletters, download white-papers and have hundreds of feeds in Google Reader.
As well as Blogging, it’s part of my day job to ensure I am aware of the latest trends online.
A by-product of this media consumption is Content Curation; sifting through the news and sharing what I feel is relevant to the people I spend my time with online. Hopefully, saving them the time and effort of finding the information themselves... [read full article http://j.mp/pyZc6Z]...
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
Here are seven businesses at the forefront of the iPad retail wave that are leveraging the device in unique and innovative ways. In a commercial environment dominated by online and mobile shopping, it’s only fitting that the iPad is leading a brick and mortar renaissance to recreate in-store excitement. Across the industry, everyone from retailers to restaurateurs have devised new ways to create brand loyalty, generate sales and enrich customer experiences.
Today, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iCloud, a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone, iPad, iPod...
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That's a must read post, it'll learn you how you will become a Twitter power user! [note Martin Gysler]
CNNFortune reported 100 million Twitter users log in at least once a month. Half of those, 50 million, log in every day. About 55% check in with mobile devices, while about 40% just check in without actually tweeting.
Those numbers are huge for anyone who’s marketing online. But that’s not all.
Thirty-four percent of marketers who use Twitter have generated leads from its use…with 20% of those closing deals.
But how do you take advantage of this growing audience of Twitter consumers? You have to become a power user. So here are 100 proven tips to help you do just that.
And to make it easier to follow along, I’ve broken them up into 10 sections that each contain 10 tips.
Read more: http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/01/30/100-ways-to-become-a-twitter-power-user/
In less than a month, my Apple iPad, as I described in Part 1 and Part 2, quickly became an essential writing tool helping me save time building my brand by planning, writing, promoting, and profiting from published books.
This is not to say, of course, that the iPad is a replacement for desktop or laptop computers. But, the iPad certainly complements them, adding a new dimension of convenience and usability that has recharged the way I work.
The following is an informal survey of the primary iPad applications that I have grown to depend on. If you’re already an iPad user, you undoubtedly have your own preferences – and I encourage you to share your preferences and experiences with me and other Personal Branding Blog followers...
It’s just over 3 months since Google dropped the bombshell that it was launching their own social network and inevitably the attention immediately switched to Facebook to see what they would do in counter the launch. Facebook were initially quiet but they went in to their famous “Lockdown” phase and started rolling out a whole host of new features many of which were lightly “inspired” by Google +. If anything the launch by Google seems to have helped accelerate the development cycle at Facebook with the main beneficiaries being the end users who are getting an improved service. Whatever way you look at it and despite the fact that Facebook were working on some of this stuff before anyway you can’t but be impressed at the staggering response to the launch of Google + by Facebook…
It's always great to discover new things all by yourself, but often curated content that's brought to you from links your networks have shared is a much quicker and more efficient way to consume all kinds of news, rather than spending hours browsing all around the web for it. One of the reasons so many people buy iPads is because content is often tailored to look SO DAMN GOOD on them, an appeal many of our favourite content curation apps have perfected. We've collected together our top 6 content curation apps specially for the iPad.. [read full article http://j.mp/qcMXh0]
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
As far as news-reading devices go, there’s no better one out there than the iPad. And among web-based apps for subscribing to and keeping track of RSS feeds, Google Reader has very little competition. It’s no surprise, therefore, that the App Store is teeming with apps for the iPad that sync with Google Reader to bring news to Apple’s tablet. Even with so much competition to contend with, Perfect RSS Reader has made an impressive splash in the crowded pool and made our heads turn. The app wraps practically every feature offered by Google Reader in a well-designed user interface and offers it all for the tantalisingly low price of just $1.99. Let’s take a look at what it’s capable of...
Earlier we brought you a first look at what iOS 5 would bring with its iMessage app and Notifications Center, taking you through the how iPhones, iPads and iPods will be set up wirelessly, without the need to sync with iTunes on the desktop.
We chose not to include a look at how Apple worked with Twitter to integrate the service at an operating system...
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