Monthly Archives: December 2009

Fast Feedback (www.fast-feedback.com) is a service for the individual looking to get feedback on just about anything they are working on. Users can be a part of a big or small organization or without affiliation. Feedback can be gained on things like a website, blog, video, product, event or customer and market research. Custom Feedback forms can be created and dropped onto a website, blog, email or social network in minutes. Fast Feedback provides code snippets that will create a button on any site or short URLs for direct access from Twitter or social networks.

“There are a lot of survey tools and form builders available today, but what is missing is a tool that is very fast, flexible, and affordable, if not free. We designed Fast Feedback to fill this need. For example, if someone in a company wants to get feedback on a new website design or the upcoming company outing, they won’t want to spend the time learning sophisticated tools or committing to large monthly fees. They want to take 10-15 minutes, create the feedback form, share with their audience, and view the responses,” said founder John McBreen.

“Similar services such as Kampyle or UserVoice are great for large sites with a lot of users and a lot of responses. But they are impractical and costly for a low volume site or someone who just wants to find out what their friends think about their new blog or YouTube video.”

Fast Feedback goal is to enable the individual contributor to gain feedback from peers, prospects and customers, believing that feedback is invaluable and shouldn’t be difficult or costly to initiate. Fast Feedback provides easy to use tools to create custom feedback forms, share them quickly in various ways, and stores responses in a secure database where customers can view and analyze the information.

Fast Feedback, located in Waltham, MA, is a SaaS offering with a free version and pay plans starting as low as $15 per month. The product is in Public Beta. Find out more or signup at www.fast-feedback.com.

Mplayit, the new mobile app store on Facebook that is transforming the mobile app discovery experience, today announced that the full catalog of over 3,500 BlackBerry applications is now available to its growing audience of consumers and fans on the Facebook platform. Mplayit is now the first cross-platform social app store where consumers can find, try, buy, and share apps for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Java-powered mobile devices.
“BlackBerry outsells the iPhone month after month, but most BlackBerry users still have a hard time finding great apps,” said Michael Powers, Founder and CEO of Mplayit. “We help them tap into their social network to discover apps they’ll love and recommend to their friends.”
Now with support for BlackBerry and iPhone, the two best-selling smartphone platforms, Mplayit’s audience can share the popular applications that are available on both devices. Mplayit offers BlackBerry users quick search and try-before-you-buy playable previews, all from the web or mobile browser. Users can rate, comment, and recommend individual apps to their social network. Because Mplayit’s catalog is hosted on the Facebook platform, users can easily browse the recommendations and reviews from those that matter most: friends and family that share their interests. In addition, Mplayit’s unique ‘Apptivity’ feed gives users a view of the most played and recommended apps in real time adding a useful and entertaining element to regular lists or rankings.
Mplayit expects to add support for more smartphone platforms in coming months, offering mobile consumers the only one-stop mobile apps megastore for purchasing content for any mobile device.
Mplayit already provides its application discovery platform and analytics to major game publishers like EA Mobile and I-play, as well as major mobile operators like Sprint, Telefonica O2 and more. Mplayit’s technology is also benefitting the burgeoning mobile developer community now looking beyond the Apple platform by providing a suite of analytics tools to help them better understand their audience, optimize their marketing, and stand out in the crowd. Mplayit’s cross-platform approach gives them a single place to focus their social marketing efforts.
“With the iPhone content market becoming ever more crowded and complex, developers are recognising the potential of other smartphone platforms,” said Powers. “We’re knocking down the cross-platform barriers that hold back apps with great viral potential.”
BlackBerry, iPhone, and Java developers interested in featuring their applications are encouraged to contact Mplayit at [email protected] for further details.
About Mplayit
Mplayit is the leading global provider for online playable discovery and social merchandising of mobile games and applications. The company’s proprietary software solutions enable mobile content providers to better merchandise, market, and interact with a targeted user audience of mobile consumers. Mplayit is based in Ashburn, Va., and is backed by New Atlantic Ventures. For more information, visit www.mplayit.com or email [email protected]. You can also follow Mplayit on Twitter: @Mplayit.
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Chartpoppers.com announces an investment report featuring Technology company Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) The investment report on Apple Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:AAPL) should be of particular interest to other Technology companies; Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM). Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)provides Internet services to users, advertisers, publishers, and developers worldwide. The company owns and operates online properties and services, and provides its advertising offerings and access to Internet users through its distribution network of third-party entities, as well as offers marketing services to advertisers and publishers Recent News on Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Yahoo Inc will let users of its email, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network. Yahoo’s support of the Facebook Connect service, which it said it expects to begin in the first half of 2010, represents an important move in Yahoo’s efforts to tap the popularity of social networking and underscores the growing clout of Facebook, which now counts more than 350 million worldwide users. Earlier this year, Yahoo allowed users to preview messages from their Facebook friends directly on the Yahoo homepage, as part of a broad revamping of the Yahoo front page. Wednesday’s announcement takes the integration between Yahoo and Facebook a step further, by automatically pushing activities performed on Yahoo sites, such as photos shared on Yahoo’s Flickr, into the Facebook news feed. Yahoo said it expects that the content that consumers share on Facebook will drive visitors back to Yahoo. To view the Consolidated Investment Analysis on Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Please visit the stock pulse page at www.chartpoppers.com In the report chartpoppers.com covers a recent Financial Summary, Analyst Consensus, Technical Analysis, Comparative Analysis and Insider Trading Activity. The full report is available at www.chartpoppers.com Chartpoppers.com is a market research and investment commentary provider. Chartpoppers.com aims to bring undervalued, up and coming companies into the sight of both experienced and non-experienced investors. We try to help investors, at whatever stage in their careers, to get a grasp on the necessary financial data that they need in order to make a educated investment decision. From our daily trading ideas to a in depth coverage of what’s going on in the markets, we are sure that chartpoppers.com is exactly what you need in order succeed. For More information please visit us at www.chartpoppers.com Chartpoppers.com Disclosure DO NOT BASE ANY INVESTMENT DECISION UPON ANY MATERIALS FOUND ON THIS REPORT. We are not registered as a securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser either with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) or with any state securities regulatory authority. We are neither licensed nor qualified to provide investment advice. ChartPoppers.com nor its affiliates have a beneficial interest in the mentioned company; nor have they received compensation of any kind for any of the companies listed in this communication. The information contained in our report is not an offer to buy or sell securities. We distribute opinions, comments and information free of charge exclusively to individuals who wish to receive them. CHARTPOPPERS.COM Paul Marek 6047245332 [email protected]

This latest KIDO’Z version (v2.0) takes Kids’ Internet to the next level with its introduction of a unique social layer for kids, which boasts the first email system for young kids as well as a secure kid-friendly social networking platform.

In addition to enjoying the existing functionality of browsing safely, watching videos and playing games; kids can now create and send emails and e-cards even before they can read or write, and can safely interact with friends within a safe online environment.

Kids can express their creativity through the KIDO’Z MAIL system, which functions as a drawing board complete with animated backgrounds and stickers.

Each child is given his/her own virtual room, which, in true KIDO’Z style, can be customized according to his/her personal taste. Here, kids can interact with their KIDO’Z FRIENDS, who are pre-approved by parents, and can express themselves and their individuality. Kids can interact by visiting their FRIENDS’ PLACES and by communicating with them through KIDO’Z MAIL.

The new version also introduces the first KIDO’Z Premium Package, KIDO’Z PLUS, which is available at a small monthly fee. KIDO’Z PLUS gives kids access to even more content, creativity and personalization capabilities; and gives parents even more security and control, with access to extra security features as well as to KIDO’Z STATISTICS, which gives parents detailed usage reports of their child’s KIDO’Z usage.

With KIDO’Z version 2.0, kids can learn, explore, play and communicate on the Internet even before they have mastered reading or writing.

KIDO’Z v2.0 is available as a free download at http://www.kidoz.net.

KIDO’Z came out of beta testing with its first official version (v1.0) in May 2009 and has since seen remarkable growth and outstanding usage metrics. With the launch of version 2.0 it is expected that the KIDO’Z Web OS Platform will continue on its tremendous growth path.

“This upgrade is really exciting as it realizes our vision of a kids’ Web OS, providing one safe environment where kids can explore, create, learn, share and communicate even before they know how to read and write and can enjoy all the benefits that the web has to offer” – Gai Havkin, CEO KIDO’Z.

About KIDO’Z

KIDO’Z is a Web OS (Operating System) intended for children between the ages of 2-8yrs. KIDO’Z creates a personal protected Internet space with a collection of special tools that enable children, for the first time, to carry out everything that adults do on the Internet; but simply and intuitively, and without needing to know how to read or write. Parents remain in control through the password-protected Parental Control Account, where they can add content, block content, adjust account settings and more. The KIDO’Z usage metrics indicate an outstanding level of engagement and with the new version (v2) and its additional interactive tools and content, it is expected that the level of engagement as well as the user base will continue on its tremendous growth path.

KIDO’Z is available in 17 languages with content added in over 30 languages, making it a truly global solution. KIDO’Z is PC, Mac and Linux compatible and is available as a free download from http://www.kidoz.net.

KIDO’Z is developed by KIDO’Z Ltd, a Tel-Aviv based company managed by parents and top industry professionals.

I Spot a Story (ISAS), a new social news aggregator, has launched in beta. ISAS brings you the best stories from around the web and provides users with a unique place to participate in the news cycle by contributing additional angles and commentary to any story.

ISAS features the top trending and most discussed stories on the web. It differs from other social news aggregators/link-sharing sites by having human editors assess whether clips are actually funny or interesting and complement the site’s aggregation algorithm. ISAS provides users with the ability to add their take on any story, by either embedding a video, uploading an image, adding an eye-witness account or just linking to another website. This allows every side of the news to be heard and provides a 360-degree view of any story.
For example, when covering the recent anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall, ISAS combined news segments from CNN and MSNBC, user-generated YouTube clips and a humorous celebrity story from MTV, to provide readers with a distinctive range of perspectives and points of view in a single place. (http://bit.ly/86ZhmS)
iSpotaStory.com fuses the web-news experience with the personal interaction of a social networking site. Any visitor can view all the content on the site without registering, and users are encouraged to connect with other “Spotters” to enrich their web-news experience.
Though ISAS covers a wide range of topics, it focuses on viral videos, entertainment, technology, sports and off-beat stories – the news that is most discussed, and most appeals to, web junkies and internet news hounds.
There are so many news sites on the web, but getting the best stories covered from the most angles is hard to find in one place…until now.
To experience ISAS first hand, please log on to http://www.ispotastory.com