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After the Beep!

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Act Like the Beep You Are, and stop missing opportunities to delight your friends.

After the beep is the new iPhone app that is impressing friends everywhere by creating & sharing themed voice messages directly to voicemail (like a txt) as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

For the times when boring old messages & updates just won’t do, After the Beep is the first iPhone app that lets you weave your own voice into variety of fun themes, giving the impression that you’re calling from the moon, a birthday party, the office, the stage at a rock concert, and so much more!

With our easy-to-use sharing options you’ll be able to send your customized message as a voicemail, email, facebook update, tweet & weblink. Your friends will love your message so much they’ll have to play it back on speakerphone for everyone to hear!

? Easily record your voice and play it back in a variety of customized themes

? Create the perfect recording with our intuitive interface for up to 12784 possible audio combinations!

? Even use it for practical applications (ever needed to have a call come from work before?)

Special Bonus Feature: After the Beep is also the easiest way to send a voicemail without ringing the phone! Send a customized or normal message from any iTouch Wireless device and it will be delivered directly to voicemail–as easy as a text message!

After the Beep comes with 10 free credits, good for 10 voicemails within the US. You can purchase 25 more credits for only $1.99, and sharing via twitter, facebook, email & web is completely free.

Pingcast

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Pingcast is designed for people who drive a lot for work: tracking mileage + expenses, and letting family know where they are. Pingcast uses iOS’s location services tuned from field tests to accurately record distance traveled, and integrates with Facebook & Twitter to update status with current address.


Official Twitter App Updated for iPad Compatibility

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When Twitter acquired Loren Brichter’s acclaimed Tweetie app and made it the official Twitter app on iPhone, it came with the promise that Twitter for iPad was in the works as well. Twitter has just updated Twitter for iPhone to version 3.1, bringing iPad support to the now universal app.

The first thing you notice about Twitter for iPad is that it feels very smooth and intuitive, much like how Loren Brichter’s other apps have felt. The app is far more complex than Twitter for iPhone, though. Swiping across a tweet no longer calls up the reply and favorite options, for example – it’s now used for moving tabs in and out of view, so you can hide or return to a specific user or tweet view that you called up. You can add multiple accounts, and can upload pictures and video, view your lists, and all the other features that have become standard to most Twitter apps, including Twitter for iPhone.

Links are opened in an ingenious way – when you click on a tweet with a link, it opens up a smaller web view of the link, so that you can view it without it taking up the whole screen, but you can expand it to the whole screen if you wish. If you want a quick view of a conversation between people, you can use 2 fingers to drag down from the tweet to open up a view of the last few tweets. Sadly, image hosting services do not open up in-line previews of the images in your stream, you have to click on the links to view the images. Profiles now show a list of 5 users who are considered ’similar’ to that user for you to also follow. Also, links to tweets do not open as a native view in the app, they open up the tweet in the mobile Twitter site.

Twitlonger support is implemented for standard tweets, but not for DMs. The miniature DM reply view also doesn’t show character count, and only lets you edit the DM by calling up the draft, by hitting the new tweet button. It’s very unintuitive, and something that needs to be fixed. There’s a lot of little tweaks that the app needs, as this is clearly a 1.0 release focused on the bigger picture than on minutiae, and there is a lot of complexity to this app that makes little things easy to miss. But, given the state of Twitter apps on the iPad, a Loren Brichter-developed app with a lot of intriguing and new interface features for free (can you say multiple account support?) is welcome. The app is sure to receive future updates as well, making it worth keeping an eye on for iPad-owning Twitter users.

FREE!

Twitter

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★★ :: STUNNING (BUT ..)
Read Our Full Review >>

Released: 2009-10-09 :: Category: Social Networking

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FriendItem

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FriendItem for iPhone is an application program which is providing total solution relating to books and reading activity, which enable you not only to manage, review, underline and evaluate books, but also share the contents with friends.

The basic data can utilize millions of books in the world through ‘Google Books’ and you can add books to your library by using keywords search function or recognizing barcode of the book. In addition, this application can provide a sharing function with friends through Facebook, Twitter, Email and Bump, which enables you to discuss books with your friends comfortably and makes possible to write review after reading a book as well as producing monthly statistics on what you read. All these functions will motivate you have right reading habit and read books as much as possible.

Currently, FriendItem for Facebook application has been developed in SNS website, Facebook.
FriendItem for iPhone and FriendItem for Facebook are mutually related and are supposed to use the data of Friend in Facebook as well as add the function of backup and motivation of data.

http://www.frienditem.com


IM+ Now Supports More Than You’ll Ever Need

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Journalists are prone to hyperbole, but this title is almost euphemistic. SHAPE Services, creator of the popular IM+ client, are continuing to roll out feature after feature for their mass-market social networking application.

IM+ current supports Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN / Live, AIM (Mac users think iChat), ICQ, MySpace, Facebook, Jabber, Twitter and Skype chat. Outside of the seemingly endless list of clients, the application also provides an equally long list of push notification options, including e-mail arrival notifications from popular clients such as Hotmail, Yahoo! and Google Mail.

In addition to the application being universally built for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, IM+ also features an in-built browser for those who don’t have the ability to multitask – a welcome addition for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch users who are unable to avail of Apple’s much-awaited feature.

The latest update – 4.3 – brings with it a number of new themes and wallpapers, high resolution graphics for iPhone 4 users and VoiceOver support, allowing for speech recognition to be enabled. This last feature will set users back 99c a month.

There’s no doubt that SHAPE Services developers are trying to appeal to everyone. From customizable sounds and animated emoticons to geo-location support and retina display graphics, IM+ is becoming the client of choice for social networking users. It remains one of the top grossing applications for Social Networking – not bad at all for a $9.99 application with almost 4 000 competitors. And to top it all off, there’s a free version too.

$9.99

IM+ Pro

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2008-11-14 :: Category: Social Networking

FREE!

IM+ Lite with multitasking

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad

Our Rating: ★★★☆☆ :: RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-08-28 :: Category: Social Networking

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Burstn

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Burstn app for the iPhone is the easiest way to share your photos from your mobile device. Photos are geo-tagged and sent to your burstn account right when you snap the shutter. No thinking, no syncing, no fuss. You can follow your friends photo streams on Burstn right from your phone, creating collaborative sharing experiences on the go. Burstn allows you to add captions and even take photos just for you, turn off sharing and keep the photos private. Burstn makes saving your moments seamless.


Spuzzle – Ask Social Questions – iPhone App Review

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Spuzzle - Ask Social Questions - iPhone App Review

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Spuzzle – Social Questions (FREE)

Version 1.2
Review – “An interactive way to update your friends. Social Questions!”

App developer: Spuzzle Inc
Website: http://www.Spuzzle.com/


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A new way to send your updates to your friends, Spuzzle combines the fun of a puzzle into twitter and Facebook to create a sort of Trivia for your friends to solve.

We’ve all gotten used to reading our friends ‘Status Updates’ or Tweets, but now you can add the fun of quizzing your friends. Instead of just telling everyone what you’re doing, where you are, or how you’re feeling you can create a Social Question – send it out and have your friends guess the answer. Interactive Social Updates!


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Step 1: Create your Question. This could obviously be done without Spuzzle “Guess where I am?” but is more fun when you can completely customize. While you could create any Question you want (under 100 characters), you can also choose from one of the preset questions included.


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Next Step: Include Hints. Here you can add word clues, or picture clues. Include photos already saved on your iPhone, or take a new one.


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Step 3 is to send out your Spuzzle. You can notify your friends that you have a new Spuzzle via Email, Facebook and Twitter. You’ll send out your status update for your friends to go to your ‘Spuzzle’ (which will be on Spuzzle.com to answer.


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While you will need a Spuzzle account (Free) to create and send your Social Questions, also, if you post via Twitter or Facebook your friends will also need to provide Spuzzle with their email addresses in order to answer the question.


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I think this is a fantastic concept. While obviously I could just tweet/update a photo and question, this integrates great within my phone, and is a pretty fun alternate to a twitter client. Having to go through all of the extra registration is a bit of a chore, but only needs to be done once.

Luckily, the App is totally free. So you can test it out, and see if you’ll like the extra interactiveness of sending out Spuzzles instead of regular status updates. Go ahead and grab it from the link below!

~ChantelleJoy
Tweet Me: @ChantelleJoytwt

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Share Digital Lives With Bump 2.0

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As the one billionth app sold in the app store, Bump got a whole bunch of publicity for being a really cool app that really didn’t do a whole lot. With Bump 2.0, the app takes sharing to a whole new level by letting you share the equivalent of your entire digital life.

Instead of simple contact sharing, Bump 2.0 lets you share photos and calendars, as well as instant “friending” on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. No more waiting for people to accept friend invitations, now just “bump” your way into people’s lives. With the new “chat view” feature, you can even even “keep sharing after the bump”.

Go grab the Bump 2.0 update as soon as you can and let us know what you think.

FREE!

Bump

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2009-03-28 :: Category: Social Networking

[Source: Gizmodo]

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Flipboard Review

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Developer: FLIPBOARD, INC.

Price: Free
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Device Reviewed On: iPad

iPad Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 4.08 out of 5 stars

Here’s the idea: make an app that pulls content from popular social networks and formats into a slick, ‘zine inspired interface. It’s a simple idea. But is it practical? Flipboard certainly thinks so, and they’ve invested quite a bit of design and promotion into it. The result is a social networking ‘zine that is good-looking and easy to browse, but still awaiting some more advanced features.

Flipboard works like this: connect the app to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Select up to seven other Twitter feeds or lists that you want to treat as “news,” then browse them via an interface that looks less like Twitteriffic and more like Newsweek. In other words, turn your Facebook friends into something cooler! The appeal is not the content, but the presentation. At a basic level, it is just another feed reader; the big selling point is the interface–the way you read your feeds.

And on that level, boy does Flipboard make my Facebook friends look good. Mimicking the look of slick modern ‘zine, Flipboard really turns mundane links and albums of Little League photos into very appealing things. The very posts that you might gloss over as you browse your friends status updates become front-and-center eye-catchers here, complete with headlines and graphics. It does all this through a responsive and intuitive touch control that lets you flip pages just like a book. Everything moves smoothly, and I did not detect any real glitches in the interface. It’s really well done and a treat to use.

Having said that, I also have to say this: right now, Flipboard feels more like a novelty than a killer app. It doesn’t mine the social networks popular links, doesn’t follow hashtags or trending topics, doesn’t allow you to make new status updates or create new tweets within the app. It’s great at what it does, but what is does is limited.

In the case of Flipboard, though, I am willing to temper my judgment of these limitations and put some faith in the future. This is not a small developer firing off their first app, but instead a major venture by a group with a lot of capital behind it. And the developers are promising that more dynamic feed sorting and other features are in the pipeline, as users begin to fuel and shape Flipboard content. If they realize the apps full potential, then it will be a beautiful thing.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention one small but important issue here. Flipbook, for all its slickness, apparently wasn’t ready to handle the level of early interest it has generated. After dealing with Facebook lockouts in the first launch days, they’ve initiated an invite system, which means you may have to wait a couple days before you can make use of the apps primary selling point. And that sucks, just a bit, though it’s certainly one of those things that won’t be a lingering issue once the hype dies down.

So, is Flipboard a novelty social network reader, or a new paradigm in popular media? The jury is still out. If the developers follow through on the potential the app holds, it will certainly rise above the status of eye-candy and become a singular way to consume your daily dose of social media. I, for one, can’t wait.

[ Flipboard Review is a post from 148Apps ]