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Check-in from an Apple Store on Gowalla, get entered to win an Ollie
Filed under: Odds and ends Iconfactory have a long history of lovely Mac things, including the spectacular Twitterrific iPhone app. When they created Twitterrific, they gave it an adorable icon of a little blue birdie. His name is Ollie. His popularity is always increasing. Of course, he is super cute, which helps.
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TUAW answers your iPad questions live
Filed under: iPad Stream videos at Ustream For the next 30-45 minutes I’m taking your questions using the Voices Heard Q&A widget below. Watch the answers live on the video and check it out as we test drive a few iPad (and iPhone) apps. TUAW TUAW answers your iPad questions live originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
View PostFirst look: Rally Up, a social network for real friends
Filed under: Software I have to admit it: I like location-based social networking apps. Probably my favorite to date has been FourSquare , which I love because I’m the “Mayor” of a couple dozen locations. But this type of app isn’t for everyone. My wife, for example, says that she thinks they’re a bit too much like stalking (to which I replied, ” there’s an app for that “), so she won’t use them. Rally Up is a new location-based social network (that’s so awkward to say) that has several features that may sway my wife. The free app for iPhone, and soon for iPad , lets you set granular friend preferences.
iPad apps now live in the store
Filed under: iPad It looks like Apple has flipped the switch, as iPad apps are now appearing in searches and elsewhere on the App Store in iTunes. Here are the official apps , and quite a few other apps are up as well. There doesn’t seem to be a section yet labeled in the main interface (there’s no “iPad” selection in the menu dropdown), but the apps are in there and available for purchase , so if you want to get a head start on your app shopping, now’s the time. Let the magical revolution begin! TUAW iPad apps now live in the store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:45:00 EST.
Loopt teams with Mobile Spinach for check-in discounts, Booyah talks about MyTown
Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I’d say the current surge of “check-in” apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they’re still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location-aware device like the iPhone, “check-in” apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and so on, are making their mark right now. Here’s news on two such apps continuing to grow on the App Store skyline. First up, Loopt [ iTunes link ] has announced a partnership with a company called Mobile Spinach to start trying to monetize this kind of app usage. Mobile Spinach delivers local ads, and Loopt says that it’ll be using their location-based social networking service to bring specials and deals to users from wherever they check-in from
Microsoft still beats Apple in cash and investments, for now
Filed under: Apple Financial , Apple Back during the earnings call a few weeks ago , it was mentioned that Apple has a jaw-dropping almost $40 billion just sitting around in cash. In the chat, we started talking about other companies that might have that much money in the hopper — Google came up, but I don’t think we were able to guess another one. But it turns out Apple isn’t even the most flush company out there, and the name of the first might surprise you: According to this chart on Silicon Alley Insider, Microsoft is currently sitting on just slightly more money than even Apple, with Google and Intel coming close behind; although Apple briefly pulled ahead of MS at the end of 2008, the Redmond Revenue Racers had more cash through most of ’09 than Apple did. Well how ’bout that. Of course, the current curves are not so favorable to Microsoft (after the Win7 update push slows down a bit) so it may not be long before Apple’s pile grows even bigger
Gowalla announces shared trips
Filed under: Software , Freeware , iPhone , App Store There’s a growing battle lately on the App Store over “check-in” apps — Foursquare , Gowalla , and MyTown have all seen big gains in users lately (and a few other contenders have been roaming the periphery ), and it looks like we’re starting to see some innovation in the mix. Gowalla recently updated their free app [ iTunes link ], and introduced a new feature called Shared Trips. These are more or less tours (or a line of check-ins at different places around a given city), but they can feature all kinds of things: a set of bars, interesting buildings to see, the old bookstore/coffeeshop run, or any other ideas Gowalla users have.
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