Native or Web site? Bizness application adds HTML5 platform for small and medium-sized businesses create their own applications — to both

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Bizness Apps launch, which gives small businesses the means to quickly and easily create a mobile application that launched in October 2010, and is growing like gangbusters, reaching more than 1000 applications that 10 languages and more than 20 countries in less than 9 months. She also recently teamed with WuFoo to give small and medium-sized businesses the ability to create and seamlessly add contact forms, online surveys and invitations for their applications. Startup also has interesting founding story that provides useful lessons for your business. Check out our April coverage here.

Bizness Apps value proposition is simple: run wants to make mobile applications available, customizable and easy-to-small business owner. Thus starting offers DIY iPhone, iPad and Android application platform that enables SMB to create, edit, and manage mobile applications without any programming experience required. You start with a template, customize them to meet your business and then Bizness Apps makes them native apps and distributes them on iTunes and the Android market.

Run is not without competitors in this space as iSites, SwebApps and mobile Roadie are targeting similar endpoint. But real Apps Bizness advantage that this product is easy to use, well designed, yet remains accessible. Price for use iOS or Android platform-$ 39, while those who want to create Android applications and iOS are paying $ 59. This accessibility is very appealing for small business, wants to take advantage of the mobile business without having to fork over thousands of dollars to do so.

Native apps are great and all, you could say, but what about this should HTML5 revolution? Where is my Web applications? Accelerated, the fact that heated debate whether the app developers should go to HTML5 or native apps (as evidenced by mg on the post titled back in February), the Bizness Apps founder and Executive Director Andrew Gazdecki said that he thinks that the best approach is to place a bet on mobile as a whole — not one or the other.

That is why the launch today announces the launch of HTML5 version of the platform for their DIY mobile applications for small businesses. With this new Web feature service, users now have the ability to create almost identical mobile experience for every mobile platform, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and so on — they can go native HTML5, or both. For an additional $ 10 per month.

Within the framework of the launch platform for HTML5 Bizness Apps built QR code enabled mobile marketing template to provide a simple and affordable way to market their mobile applications for clients small and medium-sized businesses. Image template, as shown above, is automatically generated (with the possibility of printing) with one click from within the platform for HTML5.

The idea here, said Gazdecki, is to help direct business customers for the relevant applications based on what type of mobile device they are using. For example, if a user has an Android phone, they scan the Android themed QR code assigned to business Android app.

Another important piece of the puzzle in the establishment of a development tool agnostic application platform for small and medium business is the existence in the mother and HTML5 and accessibility and the new possibilities of mobile marketing, Bizness Apps became an interesting platform and is well-positioned to weather the native vs. web apps debate.

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Record labels Sue YouTube Downloader Web site didn't understand the insignificance of their actions

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Record industry has the most respectable history when it comes to litigation. Between request millions for trivial acts of piracy and potentially ask for trillions in more serious cases, they showed that they not only completely disconnected from reality, but completely missing the actual implications of their trial. It is therefore not surprising to see their inclination to yet another windmill.

Today the goal – TubeFire site should be familiar to you, at least in principle. This allows you to download and convert YouTube videos into a format more easily watched offline (FLV files can be tricky). You give it the URL he churns out a bit and then you can download the video to MP4 or other format. Obviously this re containering free content poses a serious threat to the recording industry and must be stopped at any cost. Therefore 25 biggest labels in the world got together and sued them.

TubeFire services suspended pending appeal (it is a note apologizing and summarized the situation). And to be honest, probably valid complaint: technically, TubeFire change and distribution of copyrighted material, at least so it seems to you under this. The site belongs to Japanese media, and MusicGate suit was filed in Tokyo District Court. As the content of international protection laws would play goes beyond the scope of this article, but an international consortium content providers may make his influence felt, regardless of jurisdiction.

The funny thing is that, as so often with these clowns, they not only are you Barking up the wrong tree for several reasons, but it seems that they don't understand what they are, in General, forest tree incorrectly.

TubeFire is an ACE away from be quite legal service. To begin with explicitly provides useful services that only potentially dangerous for copyright. Transcode video to enhance mobility is not a criminal. YouTube is a fundamentally online service and it is a natural extension of how image servers and short URLs work for Twitter so long. Users want to watch these videos, which for all intents and purposes being given away for free, in places other than YouTube, for a number of perfectly legitimate reasons: bandwidth caps, lighting issues, travel, and Yes, Exchange.

Next, the local copy of the video can already be present on the user's computer. Just watching the video, it is possible they duplicated all in RAM or temporary folder. This is to write, rewrite, rename, and so forth should count as a modified copyrighted data, isn't he? If not, TubeFire is not much different. The video is already coded several times referred to as packet data, decode and translate to display the data. One more coding in there influence on physical products.

In addition it really TubeFire, do they? In the same way as it is not Bittorrent Inc that Pirates movies and music, TubeFire should not be held responsible for the actions of users. The terrorists used Google Maps to plan their attacks. Stalkers using Facebook to search for victims. TubeFire is a simple operation in, fixes minor problems with videos that users already have access to.

And let's not forget that TubeFire is one of perhaps hundreds of tools used for this purpose. They have not looked very hard for them. Let me help, guys. I have one I built into my browser! I buried it in the menu, to keep the screen uncluttered, but look how easy it is for me to grab one of multiple copies of the video:

Update: Mike reminds me that we actually had our own tool for several years. YouTube sent us a cease and desist letters and eventually disabled tool, but no one rocked us for millions in damage. He was the TOS thing, not the copyright thing.

Many of them are easily accessible, only slightly change the URL or other simple methods. Some sites and tools bar audio output, another very simple process and one Replicated, of course, by downloading YouTube videos and turn a blind eye.

These companies want to have their cake and let no one eat it at all. It seems that they don't understand that putting content on a service like YouTube comes at a price. They make the contents public, free for all. They are literally giving away the content — and then they get angry when someone takes!

Tags are looking for something that appears to the statutory income lost $ 300 damage approximately 10000 in the video for the video. This adds up to 3 million — amount of tags would have earned if TubeFire licensed each video. Now there are two objections here. Why is it a license or royalty? Anyway, TubeFire "rebroadcasted" content, much like the Repeater than anything and the standard royalty fee however many pennies or Yen looks like it may be more applicable. However, I'm doubtful on this issue. It was also unclear whether TubeFire knew that they must be licensed. The service does not require this information; It takes the ID of the code loads the linked file FLV and repackages it. Paying their artists were tags when the watched file, upload, or only when purchasing? And how they define "Download"?

If the label actually bankrupting TubeFire on and off, I must warn them that the effect will be absolutely nil. Any user who wants to download videos from YouTube will continue to do so. Reduction of the practice did not. The site is easy to clone, as a large number of similar sites show (I can't even remember which one is the original, if one exists). And like most of their legal action, this one will reduce rain from bad PR; Anyway, piracy will increase. That's where I wanted to put Hydra metaphor, if this article is not more than 1000 words.

Why is interesting, they don't think harder about this and try something more effective and interesting? May be for music videos, YouTube version only half of the songs, and then there's the link to the site of the artist, where there is a more secure player and miscellaneous purchases and share links. Or 10 seconds of the movie on YouTube prior to the actual release of the other. Or just admit that, when you let the cat out of the bag, you are unlikely to get it back into piracy, when people steal things. Piracy not people taking the content that you have given them and watch it somewhere else. TubeFire and nothing but simply a shortcut to the users will have the opportunity to anyway. Unfortunately this difference requires a judge to understand tech issues such as this, and these judges are in these days is not enough.

I know, music and film associations famously impervious to reason, but it's not stupid.

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Ness serves up their first personal search app to open a restaurant

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Last night I went out for lunch. But I didn't get where I was going, Ness did. Location was good. Only one for Ness.

We previously covered Ness calculations in July, when talking about technologies that will power their possible applications (as well as their funding). Today, the first such app has gone live in the App Store, called simply, Ness. This is a personal search engine, meals in restaurants. And that's fine.

While most of the food and restaurant recommendation apps focus on ratings from the general population, Ness adapted around social, as well as your own taste. Others have tried this before as well, but Ness seemed to have nailed it thanks to a ton of data they've been pulling up the app even started.

They can do this because they hook into Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter (as well as several other smaller sources) find signals some of the restaurants. People tweeting about liking them? Users check out there much? These sorts of things. This helps determine which restaurants Ness must show you within an application.

When you first load up the app, you are asked to assess ten places you have visited. This helps calibrate points "Likeness" of the key recommendations. Those scores likeness appear as probability percentage that you like the restaurant shows. This, together with the proximity and social data to determine what restaurants are provided to you.

But the application from a search engine in the more traditional sense. You can easily search for different types of food, whether General or specific. And you can choose to search in other cities. Or you can change the search options to limit your search by price and weed out the more circuits, for example.

When you find your favorite place you can go deeper to get hours, phone numbers, website, etc. you can also save space to return later. And you can share restaurants with friends with the click of a button.

They key to app, though, is the ease of use and data accuracy. I constantly find similarity ratings were roughly correct what my actual rating be for restaurants, I was in and the system will only get better, how do you appreciate more space.

The appearance of the application is also beautiful. I said that we can thank the initial team member iPhone Apple previously and now with Ness, to do so.

Remember that restaurant recommendations just step one of Ness hopes to offer. Next steps will indicate similarity engine to shops, music, nightlife and entertainment. All that can be done in one killer, subjective mobile search system.

You can find the Ness in the App Store here. Unfortunately, it is only for United States at the present time.

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Android Devs can now begin to optimize their applications for Google TV

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In the autumn of last year, Google made a first attempt to take over your living room with the launch of Google TV is a platform that combines online using television content to create promising to usher in a new era of convenience and interactive experience.

Unfortunately to date, he was mainly a dud. The platform too complex user interface and content issues (some of the main channels specifically blocking access to their Web sites from Google TV devices) has resulted in low adoption. Google is reportedly giving platform for major revamp, and there is at least one more bright light in the future: coming soon, Google TV will support Android applications.

Now, Google has been promising platform will receive Android support since it was first announced that until now has not been strong indication as to when this will happen in reality (most specific got Google was "summer"). Today we are one big step closer to seeing that promise come off: Google just released a preview version of Google TV plugin for Android SDK.

This does not mean that you can install Android applications yet. Rather, it means that developers can begin to configure their existing Android applications for so-called "10-foot experience", in such a way that their application will be ready as soon as the update of the Google TV ship to users.

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It is still early days, Google TV, and this release is another step in the developer tools for on the big screen. While initially a small number of applications available on TV, we expect that through the early release of the add-ins, which you will be able to bring optimized TV apps in ecosystems more quickly. To start doing this, load the add-in to Google TV today. In addition please continue to contact us in the Android developer community forum Google TV. We look forward to your input!

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Android phone owners use their devices for an hour a day

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Nielsen found that Android users tend to spend more than an hour a day on their phones. Sixty-seven per cent of their time is spent working with apps, while the rest is spent on mobile Internet. Forty-three per cent of these applications are the top 10 apps market, while the top 50 applications used by 61 per cent of the time. Other applications – all 250 000 of them are used by the rest of the time.

The statistics come to Neilsen in a free webinar, which will be held on 15 September.

Nielsen will also release browsing habits/iPhone app users, potentially interesting metric for assessing the implementation of mobile Web applications is a native variety.

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SeatGeek Redesigns their site ticket starts sponsor platform

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NYC-based SeatGeek startup is to add a fresh coat of paint on its floor ticket, introducing the revised design, which includes some useful new features. And he also announced a new route to monetize that he hopes will serve as a strong earnings, go ahead: under the auspices of the placements.

For those who haven't used it, SeatGeek is a search engine for the secondary ticket sales – it lets people buy tickets that are sold on sites like eBay and TicketsNow. And it has a focus on clutter that typically appear on other sites.

This week the company rolled out a clean look with a large amount of space allocated to view tickets and around stadiums. Now the site has more than 700 maps interactive Stadium, many of which include 3D-rendered images of your opinion actually looks like to the seat.

SeatGeek also recently introduced a feature called transaction account. Most sites allow you to rank the tickets for the price, but do not take into account whether those prices really good deal. In the end bleachers seats may be only $ 15, but if you had a chance to NAB tickets for home plate for 75% off, well, you can get these instead. This is where transaction account — SeatGeek will look at historical data to determine how many ticket normally sells for and highlights those that are particularly advantageous deal.

SeatGeek's new advertising placements are essentially very targeted advertising, pricing varies depending on the extent to which promotion he worked at the site. Different ads of people depending on the event that you are viewing, and where they are browsing from.

Some of these ads are a typical banner, while the most expensive accommodation actually pushes the button in the ticket yourself. For example, TicketsNow is now under the auspices of the button for some events, which allows users to view only tickets that are available through his website (see screenshot below). At the launch sponsor partners include Hipmunk, TicketsNow, ToughMudder and The Lion King musical.

SeatGeek team said that they are already excited about the sponsorship platform, because the Kayak (aggregator/search engine for airfares) creates more than 50% of its income from sponsorship programs. Right now the company works with each author directly, but he plans to submit a self-service platform for down the line.

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Immodestly adds inline photos and even more Polish to their iPhone app

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Back in the day, knock on immodestly iPhone app used to be that he was not very visually appealing. This is especially true in comparison with rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past few months. And now that Foursquare has extensive finance and larger group to deal with the painful consequences of rapid growth, they are putting a lot of attention to how things look and feel. And it pays off.

Today brings the update to the iPhone app that brings a new coat of arms of Poland. First of all, you'll see that the pictures are now displayed in the text when you view your check-in activity stream. This corresponds to the functionality that was recently added to immodestly Web site. He not only ups visual appeal, it makes service to feel more alive and personal.

This new, more visual experience permeates the entire app.config if you land a spot on the page and click through to see who is there, if any of your friends, you'll see their photos and shouts from this place inline.

Updating Foursquare also touting a common design tweaks, including the caption of the clean up. One thing that will please many users is to add more tasks to a TAP within the app previously, you had to focus on tiny comment bubbles to leave a comment. Now you can click on the check itself to do so.

One thing not yet included in this update: lists. New feature that Foursquare launched yesterday on their Web site continues to work on mobile. But it goes in the next version, they promise. In addition, all these new features should be presented in the Android and BlackBerry applications soon.

Soon to be live iPhone app when it, find it here.

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Facebook: we didn't steal the phone numbers and their location, so that everyone can see

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Facebook responded to privacy can scare a meme stemming from recent flow HackerNews entitled "Facebook has full telephone" with the official post on the Facebook Wall and personal message Facebook Messenger engineer Ben Gertzfield on HackerNews.

In their efforts to dominate all kinds of human communication (yay Messenger!) Facebook decided to match and de-dupe numbers on your friends list and Facebook mobile contacts to form one consistent list of contacts, that only you can see. For those of you that didn't realize that the Facebook now has contact information for various aunts, bosses, cleaning, etc., this may come as a shock.

Facebook's official response:

"Rumors, claiming that your contacts phone number visible to everyone on Facebook are false. Our list of contacts, known as the phone book, there is a long time. The phone numbers listed here have either added to your friends, and made visible for you, or you have previously synchronized your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, you can see these numbers. "

Fair enough. So why noise? Well, this is quite eye-opening to see friends, you don't even think you (wow, I really must call random people and catching up) simply by clicking on this link. As Facebook get those numbers in the first place? With your permission, of course!

As HackerNews user "extension indicates that allows contact synchronization on Facebook mobile applications will lead to something similar to the following message:

"If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's privacy policy, and your friends ' profile photos and other information from Facebook will be added to your address book on your iPhone. Please make sure that your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. [Cancel] [I agree] "

Thus, by agreeing) you essentially prefer to download the information you entered in your phone to Facebook and (b)) people decided to give you numbers. But yes, this is your buddy wine — these days, to avoid the monotony of reading something that sounds remotely, people will [agree] to just about anything like TOS, even if it is only two sentences.

Still not sure? You can delete phone numbers that have been imported into the Facebook contacts by clicking on this link https://www.facebook.com/c ontact_importer/remove_upl oads. php? r =% 2Fphonebook.

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MediaCore softswitch raises seed funding, launches Platform for small and medium-sized businesses create their own YouTube

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Launch officially public today a new venture called MediaCore softswitch, brought to you by Damien Tanner and Stuart Bowness, the first of which was in charge of the pusher, a solution that adds realtime tech applications, which was funded by Heroku guys, among other things, back in June.

Tanner and Bowness run MediaCore softswitch to provide any old small businesses with the ability to implement their own YouTube that allows an organization to control the experience from end-to-end. In other words MediaCore softswitch is a video publishing platform for SaaS (complete with mobile applications), provides the ability to create and control their own video site to any user or organization. And it's all about appearance.

How it works clients download content in infrastructure cloud-based platform and let the video play through MediaCore player, which, among other things, automatically detects the browser that the user connects to so that they don't have to worry about the differences between Flash and HTML5. Player sorts it for you, using HTML5, when possible.

Visitors can view video collection through a cool interactive guide and platform allows owners to easily organize their videos by categories and tags and automatically sorts content by relevance and popularity. Users can add logos, backgrounds, and play with the CSS to customize the look of the site. In addition, you can add your own domain, take advantage of podcasting and quite a few excellent service. In view of the fact that the establishment of a fully equipped video platform is no easy feat MediaCore offers a solution pretty cool white label that looks good and doesn't require much technical know-how.

MediaCore softswitch currently offers 15 days free trial, and after, plans start at $ 99 per month. These plans include custom domains, white label, custom branding, automated coding, introduces social video, etc., But the best part is that Android and iOS apps come with each account you manage to look pretty damn good too. Coming next? According to Tanner and Bowness is a private video profiles and paywalls.

To get the platform is off and running, the start is in the process of closing a seed round of angel funding from the Andrew Wilkinson, founder and CEO of MetaLab and Jessie Ma Gawker Media. While the founders refused to give specifics, round, probably hundreds of thousands. (United States Dollars, that is.)

When I asked them that inspiration for MediaCore softswitch, they told me that there are other video platforms are stacked with engineers and often pay little attention to the design, which leads to crappy interfaces and a number of failed user interfaces. Thus after the launch of the open source version of MediaCore softswitch for one year, they are bringing their SaaS platform for the market, in an attempt to lead you to design and make it easy to use.

Beta platform already attracted over 1100 companies, including the University of London, Mentor Graphics, TechVibes, Indiana University and a number of Fortune 500 companies. As a guess from its first customers and scalable cloud storage product aimed at the SMB, but the founders told me that during the year, they will be launching a number of personal plans, which will be offered below the current price of $ 99 per month.

MediaCore softswitch is also planning to start a Tumblr theme store in the near future that will allow users to buy themes and settings of their sites, all works through the API (a la Tumblr).

In General when paywalls roll and proper iPad interface falls MediaCore softswitch is probably going to be essentially video version OnSwipe. It is a good thing? You tell us.

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