Posts from the ‘Mobile’ Category

Jun 5 12

5 Reasons Why You Need a Mobile Website RIGHT NOW

by Jeremy Williams

If you’re like most companies, you have a website. You probably also don’t have a mobile website. While this may not have been a big problem even last year, it’s quickly becoming extremely important to have a functional mobile version of your website ready for your customers. Here are the top five reasons why: 1. More [...]

Sep 30 11

Niche App for Travel and Guides: Gowalla (#Tourism)

by Jeremy Williams

**UPDATE – Gowalla has been purchased by Facebook and the service will shut down at the end of January, 2012** Gowalla is a location-based app that, until last week, shared a lot of similarities with Foursquare – the leading location-based app today. First launched about two and a half years ago, Gowalla has steadily grown [...]

Sep 29 11

New Niche App for Sharing Links and Photos: Pinterest (#Tourism)

by Jeremy Williams

At its core, Pinterest is a social bookmarking site similar to Delicious or SpringPad, but where Pinterest differs (and where they really shine) is how their bookmarks are organized. Rather than saving a list of text links, Pinterest is 100% image-based. The visual nature of Pinterest creates a clean and easily browsable interface that can [...]

Sep 28 11

New Niche App for Sharing Love of Food: Foodspotting (#Tourism)

by Jeremy Williams

Apps like Yelp and Foursquare let you take pictures and leave reviews at restaurants, but unlike those and other apps, Foodspotting is completely devoted to food and pictures of food. Like many other apps, you can hook Foodspotting up with your Facebook and Twitter accounts and start following friends through there, but where Foodspotting really [...]

Dec 16 10

Explaining QR Codes

by Jeremy Williams

QR codes are starting to pop up in more and more places. From outdoor billboards (see the image at right) to Twitter avatars to magazine ads, the proliferation of smartphones is helping fuel a huge increase in QR codes. So what exactly are QR codes? In short, QR codes are 2D barcodes that contain embedded [...]