Inapp translator

With Inapp Translator, you can easily translate any text into your preferred language without closing the active app. You can see the translated result at the same place in a simple floating window and make everything easier. Inapp Translator is a free app that simplifies your life for sending a quick responce, in any language, when you are communicating with friends via SMS, emails, Facebook, Twitter, or whatsapp, through Inapp Translator. It also works with e-book readers such as Kindle.


source : http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/05/30/16-best-new-android-apps-may/

Tasker

Whether you are looking to keep your phone screen on while you are reading an e-book or you want it to ring louder at the office so you don't miss an important call, Tasker is ready to do your bidding. The more you use Taker the smarter it get. Take advantage of this clever app's multiple triggers, such as time, day and location, to save your time and make your smartphone even smarter.

Source : http://blog.laptopmag.com/15-best-android-apps-youre-not-using?slide=2

Rise Alarm Clock

If waking up were easy, we wouldn't be out inventing alarm clocks that explode or sound like the end of times. The Rise Alarm Clock app is beautifully designed and makes waking up about as pleasant as possible. It's super simple to operate - even allowing you to snooze just by shaking your phone - and the minimalist design is a nice way to ease into your first cup of coffee. It's available for all Iphone users.


source : http://coolmaterial.com/feature/15-new-apps-you-should-know/

Wikitude

Wikitude is a brower that will open your eyes to the world around you through your device's camera. The augmented reality browser lets you explore and interact with your surroundings. You can search for places around you, such as "restaurants" or "accommodations", quite similar to "Hungry Go Where apps", but with better function as it can help you to look up nearby events, tweets, Yeld recommendations or relevant Wikipedia articles.  Vendors in the area also serve up mobile coupons via the app so you'll know when you are near a good deal/ Wikitude also comes with a bunch of cool AR games, like "Swat The Fly," "Alien Attack" and "Bubble Tap."


source: http://blog.laptopmag.com/15-best-android-apps-youre-not-using?slide=1

Trusper tip-sharing social network

Tip-sharing social network Trusper has a brand new updated verison of experimenting with brand-related tips on its service. We as their users are now able to purchase content within the app.The platform’s new “Music, Movies, Books” category allows users to share tips about their favorite songs or bands, movies and more, complete with links to sample or download these items on iTunes, Amazon or YouTube, without leaving the app.

Users can also comment and give likes if they are enjoying the app. Users are also allowed to share the content via Facebook or Twitter or save the playlist for their own personal usage. 

source: http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2014/07/09/trusper-tip-sharing-social-network-updated-with-music-movies-books-tips-interview/

Facebook Messenger iPad App Is Finally Here

This adds universal support for all iOS devices, thus the same app will work on both iPhone and iPad respectively rather than using separating Ipad app.

Besides that, the updated version of Facebook Messenger now includes the ability to have videos you shoot in Messenger be saved to your phone’s camera roll, and there are also the usual bin of bug fixes and performance improvements made to the app to make it run smoother.

source: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/07/07/facebook-messenger-ipad-app-is-finally-here/

Breaking News app

Breaking news app is a great app where this app provide us the latest news near us with proximity alerts. It is very convenient for users as we can get an idea of things happening around us in a few seconds without waiting for the newspaper which will come out the next day! 

source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/06/12/breaking-news-mobile-app-now-brings-breaking-news-based-proximity-breaking-news/

SMW mobile app

A all new social media week mobile apps is launched recently where mainly powered by Nokia. The main purpose of this app is to connect with other attendees, explore the entire event schedule and also join the conservation between users.

As this app allows real time chatting with among attendees to build a meaningful relationship with attendees who have common interest. This app also monitoring trending tweets. images and stats from SMW events across the globe. Users can also add the location of particular event into their profile for convenient purposes. 

source: http://socialmediaweek.org/mobileapps/

Censorgram as Anti-Bully

The world keep expanding in terms of social media. Is not a surprise that the society would criticized on certain people they do not like. This can be categorized as 'cyber bully' or  'bullying'. It comes in many way that people can comment hurtful words onto your social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and more. Therefore developer came out with this app called ' Censogram' where it helps that particular person able to delete or censor those hurtful comment.  In a way this app act as a Anti Bully parties that help to solve those solutions.






Source: http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/07/05/anti-bullying-app

DinnerTime one of the newest Apps

Now days kids owns their very own smartphones and this can cause them to be addicted to certain apps they have. This may lead them to a very unhealthy living style. Therefore the developer came out with this app called Dinner Time that control the kids usage on smartphone with the help of parental control. This may seems funny, but currently it does help and discipline the kids and the usage of the smartphone. Some how the parents are able to control the Dinner Time through using their own phone towards the kid's smartphone.






Source: http://www.askmen.com/news/tech/new-apps-july-2014.html

SavingStar, an online Social Media Shopping Platform

SavingStar is a digital coupon and promotion program that offers deals and gathers individual shopper data across many retailers and brands. This allows users to communicate online with other users. This enables the users to share any nice updates with the other users through this app. Within 2 years this app have gotten 2 Million users. This kind of shopping style becoming more trendy, and is also able to have the same level with other social media apps. This apps does make people's life easier by buying things online and also able to get at a lower price. Therefore this social media app is able to compete with other  growing social networks.

Source: http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/savingstar-expands-walmart-target-dollar-stores/294007/

Facebook start using 'App Link' to pull you into the Apps

As can be seen that Facebook user has been decreasing if compared to previous years. This is because many new social apps appear to be successfully attract smartphone users to use it. Therefore Facebook has develop a new app called " App Link" that enable other develop to advertise under Facebook and this can pull back the lost users back into Facebook. Developers have already found that Facebook's mobile app install ads can drive a massive number of installs which is 350 Millions in the month of April. Not only that, the developer allows " App Link" to keep track on user who visited the particular interest of website and will keep update that particular user.






Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/01/facebook-starts-using-app-links-to-get-you-back-into-apps/

A New Social Media Mobile App Launches for Hotel Gyms and Hotel Fitness Centers

Here is a great news for ya'll fitness crazies! Fit Spotting just released their highly anticipated mobile app that simplify the process of finding hotel gyms for travelers. Which means now you don't have to stop working out during your travels. This app gives a fun and easy to use social media platform for searching hotels and reviewing their gym and fitness facilities!

Previously, the each places had to make their own site to provide direction and information, but it also comes as a great deal for the owners  since it's free and it allows every one to share opinion of each gym and hotel!

Source: http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwfitness/article/A-New-Social-Media-Mobile-App-Launches-for-Hotel-Gyms-and-Hotel-Fitness-Centers-20140702#.U7qvLrGBraQ

New Mobile App lets Fans Track Their Favorite YouTubers’ Social Media

Cyber stalking your favourite Youtube celebrities is going to be easier for all of you! The company Victorious will be launching a new mobile app that will serve as a hub for Youtubers to put all of their social media contents outside of youtube. For example, if this Youtuber has facebook page, instagram and vine, by just finding him/her in this app will allow you to track all of his/her other social media content.

It's a very good idea that will make our lives whole a lot easier. I personally had to manually find some of my favourite Youtubers' and Streamers' facebook page or tweeter to see their schedule or updates as sometime they forget to put it in their information page. However, one concern that I can think of is, what if this app becomes one of those site like Reddit where it puts those social media contents that the youtubers don't want the fans to know? Privacy invasion perhaps?

Source: http://newmediarockstars.com/2014/06/new-mobile-app-lets-fans-track-their-favorite-youtubers-social-media/

Ex-Microsoft engineers launch social network app built on long-form visual storytelling

 Here, we introduce you a new social media app, Pixotale from Pixomobile.

 Pixotale allows you to easily combine text with photos, videos, audio and location to create a story that could be shared with other users who can comment or like those stories. Mindblowing!

One of the developer, Mao used to blog and after Facebook and other famouse social media catching up, he stopped blogging and thought what would be the point of all those meaningless friend count.


“However, after a few years I started questioning the value that my precious time on these social media networks brought me,” Mao explained. “In contrast, I wrote a whole lot of thoughts, ideas, stories, and made so many real life friends around the world by blogging. All I got from today’s social media is a meaningless friend count and fragments of status updates.”

 This app is free on iOS app which works on iPhone and iPad, which I will be trying out after the post is done! I believe this might be the new way of sharing your stories, but I have to be honest that, it sounds very difficult to use. All those thoughts of cutting videos, adding in effects, and putting musics in, all those editing require to produce a one good story? it might not come very friendly to all users. This app is interesting but sounds difficult to get it started with.


Source: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/pixotale/

Social-Networking Apps Report Service Outages in China

A number of Popular Social-Networking applications reported that their services were impaired in mainland China, two days after a massive pro-democracy demonstration in Hong Kong on Thursday.

These apps users were unable to access many of the features since Tuesday, which made this the first major service crisis in the country for the companies. The interesting thing is that Line Corp. and Kakao Corp., themselves didn't know what caused these services to be unavailable to users in China.

For more information, please click here: http://online.wsj.com/articles/social-networking-apps-report-service-outages-in-china-1404389056

For all we know, China's government has been blocking a lot of information flows on the internet and even blocking Facebook that we almost all use. As the focus on our blog is social media in mobile apps, it is interesting to see how the purpose of social media could easily be blocked by the government. Perhaps something interesting thing for us to give a little time to think about if the social medias are serving the original purpose or that our freedom of connecting with other people should be ignored like this? What we also should think about is that, not only China, but a lot of news and information are secretly taken down in other countries too. We might as well go back using phones with no internet accessibility?

Mobile App "Yo" might be big

                     A recent article on mobile app Yo stated that many were complaining about the functionality of Yo, which simply allows you to message the word Yo to your friends, and basically that’s it and I mean THAT’S IT!

                Because of this only one function in Yo, As with most new ideas, people across social media were swift in dismissing Yo. However, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen thinks the naysayers should be a bit more open-minded.

                  What he meant was to see the big picture. In this article too there is an example relating to missed calls. A missed call is a telephone call that is deliberately terminated by the caller before being answered by its intended recipient, appearing as a "missed call" on the receiver's cellphone. In Bangladesh, missed calls generate up to 70% of cellular network traffic at all given time. The Cellular Operators Association of India, COAI, has instituted a case to comprehend the profits implications of missed calls in India. Weird enough, the losses of up to 30%  in industry are made by missed calls. Companies are using this so called “tool” to generate profits.

              Hence, it is not the time to protest on the Yo yet.  Yo is an instant one-bit communication where it can be Yes or no, Yo or no yo

Article Reference: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/06/19/marc_andreessen_explains_why_mobile_app_yo_is_a_big_deal_one_bit_signaling.html

All time high 51% time spent on mobile apps

              The article has stated that more than 51% of people spend their time using mobile apps when using digital media. We have to admit that time spent on mobile apps is at a record high and just keeps increasing. Analyzing the behavior of people time spent on their devices such as radio, social media, and photos, they discovered that people uses those far more on their mobile devices than on their PCs.

               So is this pattern of our daily lives a concern? The answer is no. We live and breathe in a digital world as of today. Smartphone is no longer a luxury but a necessity. App developers are growing day by day building apps that will help us in many possible ways. Employees are able to use their smartphone or tablet during meetings for faster and productive discussions. Doctors can do the same transferring data such as X Rays or Scanned files onto their devices. This method saves time and money. People no longer need to be stuck onto a chair while doing work as with mobile devices and apps, they can be versatile.

Article reference : http://www.cnet.com/news/mobile-app-usage-hits-51-of-all-time-spent-on-digital-media/

Creator of Moshi Monster DARES to venture into social networking for children

              This recent article on 3 July 2014 illustrate that Michael Acton Smith, whose achievement with "Moshi Monsters" has turn him into one of Britain's best-known tech entrepreneurs, is betting that the innovative podium can detain a largely untouched social-network subscriber base that is  children between the ages of 7 and 12.

            That being said, he is officially releasing his own social network for children in the United Kingdom. Michael on Friday launched PopJam, a mobile app through which kids are capable of posting photos, craft and share drawings, or to tag on certain topics or brands. So far, the marketplace has been restricted to a small number of networks dedicated to games or highly controlled chat services, such as Walt Disney Corporations. Children under 13 are excluded from many matured networks, including Facebook. In fact, majority who join are by using their parents' accounts or dishonest about their ages.

          Michael intention is understandable, yet the curiosity on the future of this plan may need to be further analysed. The use of mobile apps does enable children to explore their inner creativity and build confidence. Thus, I would encourage Michael’s plan because i believe that youngsters shouldn't be raised up in an extremely recognized world where advertising is influencing the way people behave. 

Article reference : http://online.wsj.com/articles/maker-of-moshi-monsters-tries-social-network-for-kids-1404397941

Companies are turning into mobile apps.

This recent article published on 1 July 2014 is about companies turning into mobile applications to search for top talents. According to recent study, it shows that a staggering 45% of applicants now apply for jobs on mobile devices. A good number of companies nowadays make use of social networking websites to place job openings at the same time as the more innovative ones also control social media to assemble networks of people interested in the company that might revolve into prospective high-quality workforce. 

                    The statement also implies that organizations can now CONTROL huge data tools from retailers such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media applications. Information Technology Company HCL Technologies also now interview candidates through a video based interview and later accessing them. 

               A manager in HTC, Naveen Narayanan, global head  talent acquisition at HCL Technologies stated that "We also make sure that we are available for conversation and engagement with the potential candidate on FB, Twitter and Glassdoor," 

               In my opinion, this method is fast and efficient but may lack the judgement in hiring candidates. People applying for job through social media is fast and easy but at the same time companies need more than just a resume. Work ethnic and personality are as equal as the quality of paper. Thus, it has it ups and downs and it really depends on the preference of the company.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-07-01/news/51002457_1_hcl-technologies-citi-india-accenture