October 21, 2009
News to Us: GQ Goes Mobile, PosiMotion GPS for iPod Touch, GraffitiGEO, Minggl, and More
- Mobile Apps: Conde Nast Launches IPhone Platform With GQ App | Advertising Age
Conde Nast is taking initiative in the print industry by introducing a platform for selling and displaying its publications on the iPhone and iPod touch. This investment in creating an optimized mobile reading environment is important, and reminds us of what Carnival Comics is doing with mobile series. - Mobile social networking blowing up: Forrester | Mobile Marketer
Forrester is out with a new report stating that mobile social networking is blowing up, with US subscriber monthly usage jumping 5 percent in less than a year. They go on to say that mobile phones hold the key to unlocking the full potential of social technologies. - Minggl Sets Out to Redefine Social Networking | Minggl
Minggl's update to 2.0 brings with it a browser-based app to access and manage multiple social networks simultaneously. An interesting feature is its ability to analyze a user's "social-tie-strength" and work accordingly. - Mobile Social Network Wars: Loopt Acquires GraffitiGEO | TechCrunch
To keep up in the popular social mobile space, Loopt has acquired GraffittiGEO, which brings with it mobile social networking, reviews, games, and soon augmented reality. - Free Google Panoramio App Lets You Submit Photos to Google Earth & Google Maps From Your iPhone | mediabistro
Google is nudging users to submit photos to their Google Earth and Maps services with a new Panoramio iPhone application. - Wordpress.com Goes Mobile | theNextWeb
Wordpress.com has rolled out mobile themes that will automatically load when a site is visited. Generating 60 million page views each month, this is one step towards relieving user frustration over clunky mobile web sites. - GPS turn-by-turn navigation comes to iPod touch | Mobile Entertainment
With some extra hardware, PosiMotion and GeoLife are bringing turn-by-turn GPS navigation to the iPod touch. This is now possible thanks to the Apple iPhone 3.0 update which allows third-party accessories to control apps. - Mark Pincus: Web 3 Is The App Economy | TechCrunch
With great success via popular Facebook apps like Farmville, CEO of Zynga Mark Pincus, is predicting web 3.0: the app economy. - Food Content Alerts mobile site open for brand integration | Mobile Marketer
Taxi NY has released Food Content Alerts, a much needed app for the 70 million consumers in North America suffering from food related ailments. - Does a Google Phone Make Sense? Can Google Bypass the Mobile Carriers? | mediabistro
Rumors are bubbling about a possible Google phone that will skip current providers and be marketed in retail locations.
