Categorie: iPhone App

Peter Thiel & Reid Hoffman-Backed 100Plus Unveils Its First iPhone App, “A Life Coach In Your Pocket”

100Plus, apps, Health, health data, HealthTech, ios, iPhone App, mobile, quantified self, social, Startups, TC

photo 2-30Founded in late 2011, 100Plus set out to tap into the growing popularity of the Quantified Self movement to create a personalized, mobile health prediction platform to help Average Joes like you and me stay active and get healthy. Like some of today’s better known activity and health trackers, like Fitbit, Jawbone’s Up and RunKeeper, 100Plus wants to leverage our ever-present mobile devices to create a more accessible way to analyze, understand and digest our health data — in turn, encouraging us to complete small, healthy actions, while receiving realtime feedback on how those actions affect their daily routines and long-term health.

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Streamweaver Nabs $1.3M From Former Facebook Chief & Others To Bring The Split-Screen Experience To Mobile Video

apps, Chris Kelly, Fundings & Exits, ios, iPhone App, Media, mobile, mobile video, social, Social Video, Startups, Streamweaver, TC, Video

Screen shot 2013-01-11 at 4.48.25 AMAs Peter Csathy wrote recently, mobile video does indeed present a huge market opportunity, but it’s one that few (if any) startups have gotten right, and it’s a much harder nut to crack than many seem to realize. Streamweaver, a Nashville-based startup that launched back in September, hopes to stand out from the crowd by making the whole mobile video experience more social and collaborative. For Streamweaver, that means allowing friends to not only record mobile video simultaneously along or with friends, but view recorded content in a single, split-screen video as well.

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Dish.fm Relaunches Its Foodspotting Competitor To Make “Best Dish” Recommendations Using Reviews From Yelp, Foursquare And Instagram

apps, dish.fm, food, foodspotting, iPhone App, mobile, recommendations, restaurants, social, Startups, TC

dishfm-1Dish.fm is a new restaurant recommendation mobile application, launching today, which focuses on helping users find the best dishes at their local eateries. Initially, the company had gone the Foodspotting route, having debuted an early version of the app this summer which relied on crowd-sourcing techniques to fill its database with photos and reviews. But just a month after the app went live in the App Store, the company knew it had to revamp. Today’s app scraps that earlier approach, and now generates its “best dish” recommendations using sentiment analysis technology, not original user-generated content.

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Cobook Brings Its Unified Address Book To iPhone

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cobook-featuredCobook, which has long offered a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, is today finally available on mobile with the debut of its iOS application. Like its desktop counterpart, the new app creates a unified address book by syncing your iPhone contacts with data from social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Flayvr, A Mobile App That Automatically Creates Photo Albums, Raises $450K Seed Round

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flayvr playerThe proliferation of smartphones has made it incredibly easy for us to take numerous photos and record videos, but it has also left us to deal with massive media archives stored on our devices. When you need to locate one specific photo, or find those you shot at a given event, it can be difficult. A new mobile application called Flayvr, aims to help with this by automatically organizing photos and videos into collections, titling them appropriately, and offering tools for quick, one-click sharing to social networks.

The company, based in Tel Aviv, has also just closed on a seed round of $450,000 from Israeli angel investors.

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Camera+ Turned Down Acquisitions From Adobe, Google, Twitter; Also Says “F*ck The VCs”

Acquisitions, adobe, apps, camera+, Fundings & Exits, Google, iphone, iPhone App, John Casasanta, mobile, social, Startups, TC, Twitter

Camera+ …the-ultimate-photo-app-e1292981987493Two years ago, app developer tap tap tap launched Camera+ onto the App Store. For only a buck, users could get way more mileage out of the mobile photography experience, bringing 27 color effects and granular controls to their iPhone cameras. These features have made it one of the most popular camera apps out there. So popular, in fact, that Camera+ rang in its second birthday today with its 8 millionth download, tap tap tap founder John Casasanta said in a blog post.

As part of the celebration, Casasanta reflected on his company’s journey over the past two years. In his post, he reveals that tap tap tap received a handful of acquisition offers from several notable names: “It started with Adobe, then went to Zynga (for The Heist, not really for Camera+), then Google. And most recently, Twitter.” And he had a word or two for VCs, too.

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Kid-Friendly Social Network Everloop Is Coming To iPhone, Raising Series A

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Everloop - Mobile appEverloop, the social network for children under 13, is planning to launch a mobile application, making it one of the first companies to attempt a mobile, social network just for kids. The app, arriving in the third week of June, will translate the desktop experience to the small screen, beginning with iOS (iPhone & iPod Touch) before heading to other platforms like Android.

The company, which closed a seed round of $3.1 million last year, is also in the process of raising its Series A and is in search of a strategic investor to help it expand.

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Path For Families? Kidfolio Brings Private Social Networking For Parents To iPhone

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kidfolioHey look: another private, micro social networking service has just launched. From Alt12 Apps, which moms know better as the maker of the BabyBump app, there now comes a new mobile-only private social networking service for parents called Kidfolio. The app, which is celebrating its public release today, offers parents tools for private sharing – mainly photos of children – which can be organized into a scrapbook-like timeline by ages and stages.

Along with the launch, the company is also announcing it has closed its seed round of $1.26 million in funding, led by Aydin Senkut’s Felicis Ventures, with participation from InterWest Partners and other angels, including HealthTap founder Ron Gutman, plus Othman Laraki (Twitter), Matt Wyndowe (Facebook), Julia Popowitz (Facebook), and Ron Bouganim (Branchnext), and Rob Leathern (XA.net).

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Discovr Unveils People Finder App, Helps You Surface Interesting People On Twitter

apps, Discovr, iOS app, iPhone App, mobile, People, social, Startups, TC, Twitter

discovr-people-photoDiscovr, the company behind what’s still one of my all-time favorite mobile app discovery tools, Discovr Apps, is out today with a new application for finding people. Not surprisingly, it’s called Discovr People. The startup, which also has apps in the Music and Movies verticals, is not trying to compete with the trendy “ambient location”/people-stalking apps hitting the scene as of late (like Highlight, Sonar, Glancee, Banjo, etc.), but instead is providing more of a Twitter-based people finder, not unlike the Berlin-based Flockofbirds app.

When you first launch Discovr People (iOS only for now), the app asks you if it can access your Twitter accounts. Say yes, and you’re off.

[Note to app developers: this is how social integrations should be done on iOS – stop asking for my Twitter username and password already.]

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Flipboard’s Latest Brings Cover Stories To The iPad, Plus A New French Edition

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flipboard-ipad-coverFlipboard is rolling out the first major update to its social magazine tonight since its December launch on the iPhone. The new release brings the iPhone app’s most popular feature, “Cover Stories,” to the iPad’s bigger screen. Now, iPad users will see a large, double-tiled pane on the first page of their Flipboard app. There, you’ll find a mix of stories popular among your friends, those that are popular across Flipboard’s network, as well as those that are uniquely relevant to you.

Also new in tonight’s release are a number of design tweaks, meant to give Flipboard a print magazine-like appeal, as well as a much-requested third page in Flipboard’s Table of Contents. And for international users, there’s even more big news: Flipboard just launched its first standalone European edition with the arrival of Flipboard in France, and is promising more localized editions to come.

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