Foodspotting, the San Francisco-based start-up represented in New York by co-founder Soraya Darabi, just hit the Android Market. It’s the “lite” version, the company says, which lets users upload and geotag pictures of food and see pictures of food available nearby.
Foodspotting rushed to push out an Android version of the app before Read More
Yesterday was the deadline to submit apps for the NYC BigApps contest, which gives out $20,000 in cash prizes for the best apps built using government data, and there are some pretty sweet submissions that will be useful for a wide range of situations.
Meet a homeless people on the street? Shelter Find lets Read More
Seamless Web hit the Android App Market yesterday just in time for Slushpocalypse, reports Mashable’s Jolie O’Dell.
The app is now available to Android users in addition to iPhone and BlackBerry users, who no longer need both a phone and a computer in order to cause specific foods to be prepared and seamlessly Read More
It took Robert Nay a month of coding at the public library to develop “Bubble Ball,” a free, physics-based puzzle game that has been downloaded more than two million times in two weeks.
Mr. Nay is 14, in eighth grade and lives in Spanish Fork, Utah. Last week, Bubble Ball knocked the hugely-popular game Angry Read More
As the competition among VCs for the best young startups continues to heat up, firms are finding creative ways to source new deals.
The TechStars startup incubator is teaming up with Twilio—a startup that sells a platform for building apps that interact with cell phones or landlines—to sponsor an app contest where the first Read More
Can’t be in Times Square when the ball drops? Here’s the next best thing! Or not.
The Times Square Ball App will stream a live video feed of the party in Times Square, with a countodwn clock and Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook Integration, reports Charlie White at Mashable.
The app is available for iPhone, Read More
Grills, toasters, cars–all things are better when they become connected to the Internet.
Here is something to tide drivers over while they wait for Google’s self-driving automobile: Web-enabled parking spaces that tell you when they’re empty.
IPhone users in Los Angeles already have access to Parker, an app from San Francisco-based Streetline that tells you Read More
New York and San Francisco-based Foodspotting, the iPhone app for taking pictures of food and geotagging them for other users to find, hit 500,000 downloads today just as New York’s Foursquare launched a similar feature with photos and comments.
Foodspotting is a startup from Soraya Darabi, formerly of The New York Times and Read More
The MTA is running a series of ads in the subway that reference the wonderful world of transit apps for iPhone, Android and more.
But the MTA doesn’t want credit for the apps themselves. The new ads tout the fact that the MTA opened up its data, thereby outsourcing apps to developers:
“Our apps Read More
Broadway producer Ken Davenport has presumably been making bank for the last six months on his $.99 cent iPhone app At The Booth, which shows how long the lines are at the Times Square discount TKTS booth and what tickets are available.
Entertainment Weekly called it “ingenious” and “the best thing to happen Read More
