The idea for the app came from the founder’s history running his own digital agency: his musician and creative friends wanted a way to share content online, but felt limited by some of the more popular social tools available. Read more »
Moscow-based search engine Yandex is hoping to steal a march on international rivals with a new music subscription app for the iPhone — but it’s gambling that users will be ready to stump up cash for the service in a country where paid-for digital music is […] Read more »
Is there any way to stand out among the glut of social, local, mobile services? Everplaces and Circleme, two new European startups just coming out of private beta, certainly hope so — and both are attempting to put their own twist on the combination of people and places. Read more »
Stockholm-based iZettle — a company that is building a payments system not entirely unlike the much-heralded Square — is taking a big step forwards today by coming out of beta. The system, which consists of a plug-in device and app, goes live today, with approval from […] Read more »
New York City-based Q&A site VYou has gone mobile, enabling users to respond to messages from wherever they are with an iPhone app. It has also added status updates to its communication options, which could put it in closer competition with mobile messaging services like Tout. Read more »
TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that allows people to outsource errands and other jobs, has debuted its first iPhone app. The whole point of using TaskRabbit is to save precious time, so the iOS app is great — it allows people to get things done on the go. Read more »
Trover, the travel app aimed at sharing off-the-beaten-path discoveries, has formally launched out of limited beta. The app, which was initially available only on iPhone through Facebook Connect, is now also open as a web app on Trover.com and accessible to anyone with an email account. Read more »
What do you get when you cross Instagram’s funky filters with Animoto’s drop-dead simple video creation tools? Instamoto? Anigram? Whatever you call it, for many users it will be the perfect way to make interesting, visually stunning video slideshows on the fly. Read more »
The steampunk web series Riese, which will be relaunched on SyFy.com within the next month, is getting even more cross-platform than before, thanks to a iPhone/iPod Touch game to feature narration by Felicia Day, a potential series of novels, and just maybe a TV adaptation. Read more »
Online video site Vimeo is working on an iPhone app, which is expected to be released in the fourth quarter. The app is a bit of a departure from Vimeo’s existing strategy of making videos available on HTML5 through the iPhone’s Safari browser. Read more »
Justin.tv is quickly expanding its mobile capabilities with a new iPhone app that will allow its users to broadcast or view video from its live streaming site. The release comes just two weeks after it introduced its Android app, and includes some iPhone-specific features. Read more »
Clicker is taking its social and search capabilities mobile with a new iPhone app. The app, which will act as a companion to its website, will enable users to search for videos, share what they’re watching and create playlists of shows and videos to watch later. Read more »
CBS is introducing a new service called TV.com Relay that will enable users to share what they’re watching and collect virtual rewards. CBS will push the app through on-air promotions, which could be a huge advantage over other social TV apps like Miso, Philo and Tunerfish. Read more »
Bazaar Labs, maker of the Miso TV check-in app, has rolled out new features that will allow users to interact with friends and engage more with the programming they watch. The app maker has also announced a partnership with WE TV to drive interest in Bridezillas. Read more »
The PGA Championship kicked off this morning at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, and will continue through Sunday. While the Championship will be broadcast on TV throughout the weekend, you can still catch at least some of the golf “action” online and on your mobile phones. Read more »
The tech news has been buzzing with the launch of Google’s App Inventor for it’s Android platform. Despite Apple’s restrictions on third-party development kits — codified in clause 3.3.1 of iPhone’s developer terms — there are toolkits available for iPhone app development, too. Read more »
Web-based communication systems for companies and groups seem to be all the rage these days. Such systems fall into two groups: the ones that are built around projects, tickets and the like, and enterprise microblogging platforms that are more like Twitter and Facebook. Read more »
Mobile video firm MobiTV has launched a new application on Apple’s iPhone that will allow viewers to watch live and on-demand programming from TV programmers such as ABC and NBC. The application download is free, but you have to be a subscriber to the MobiTV service […] Read more »
Mobile live-streaming video firm Qik has released a new mobile application that is chock full of goodies and will allow its users to add digital effects to their videos on the fly. The new Qik Video Pro application, which is available now in the Apple iPhone […] Read more »
CW to Double Ad Load in Its Web Shows; the CW Network plans to put as many ads in Web versions of its shows as it airs on TV. (The Wall Street Journal) Bitbop: Is This the Hulu of Mobile?; Fox Mobile unveiled Bitbop this week […] Read more »
