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FutureYear
05 months ago
My friend Nick recently launched FutureYear, a new social network where you share with friends what you are doing in the future. Here’s the press release…
Where FutureYear ?ts in…
Your future! You have Facebook for catching up with past friends made and viewing past photos etc. Twitter is all about the present, what is happening right now around the world. FutureYear looks beyond your past and present and asks what are you and your friends doing in the future.
FutureYear is all about your next 12 months…
Broadcast what you have planned, where you’ll be around the world, and what your ambitions are for the next year. Share with friends, even if they’re just ideas at the moment!
It all starts with your profile page. Here you can post what you have planned into an organised timeline so that friends and contacts can discover what you have in store for your next week, next month and even next year.
On creation of a FutureYear profile, you can begin to track other profiles. Whether you track friends or business profiles, all upcoming events posted to these profiles you track will appear in your home page. Here you can stay up to date with whats coming up in the lives of friends, businesses, or groups.
Bored next weekend? Use the Explore feature. Search for events by date, topic or location to find stuff to do locally in your area or even further afield.
FutureYear is perfectly suited towards businesses and groups too who wish to promote their exciting dates or promotions coming up. As a brief example of how we see this being great for business we have a outlined a few potential uses:
-A clothing store may want to inform its customers of sales it has on, or when a new range is in
-A coffee shop may want to promote special offers on particular days to drive sales
-A nightclub may want to share its diary of nights and DJs coming up
-A scout leader can post activity days and provide the link to its scouts
-An event organiser may want an open and public centralised profile to show upcoming events
-A local football team may want to post a season’s fixtures and the locations of away fixtures
For businesses and groups, the great benefit with FutureYear is that its open. Users don’t have to be registered to view a profile. Businesses and groups sharing the link to their FutureYear profile is the first and only step needed to promote their future events, activities, fixtures, offers and more.
Currently in beta
We’ve just launched to the world and anyone can now join. We have many features and improvements coming soon, stay tuned!
Exciting times!
The team behind FutureYear are really excited about the coming months and the features we have lined up. We hope you’re just as excited as we are about FutureYear. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Broadcast your future today…www.futureyear.com
1 year ago
I’m a sucker for camera apps for the iPhone. I have two folders full of them including Camera+, CameraBag, CrossProcess, PictureShow, ShakeItPhoto and more. I just love trying out new apps to see what effects they give my photos. The latest one to impress me is Instagram.
Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr – it’s all as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented.
The social aspect of Instagram is what makes this app interesting and enjoyable for me. You can add friends from your contact list, Twitter, Facebook or simply search usernames and names. I can view a feed of all the photos my friends are uploading aswell as ‘Like’ and comment on them, reminding me somewhat of Tumblr. You can also share to various websites including Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr and Foursquare.
Instagram comes with 12 great filters to make your photos look great. Images are saved at only 600×600 pixels, but for me this absolutely works fine for sharing through Instagram. I rarely print photos from my iPhone, for which case I would want it saved at full resolution, but for sharing through the app and on Twitter then I have no problem with the low res. Resolution may be increased in future updates.
I’m really excited to see what more Instagram will have for us in the future – and it’s hard to believe that this app is absolutely free! This app has already started to replace Camera+ which was pulled from the App Store almost 2 months ago for violating the terms and conditions. With no word from the developers on it’s return, it seems this will be a forgotten project with no further updates so myself, like many others, are looking to exciting alternatives that do have a future and won’t slide into obscurity when the next iOS update kills it off.
If you’d like to view the photos I’m snapping regularly and sharing to Instagram then feel free to follow me; purplelime.
Challenge your friends with Plus+ Games
62 years ago
One of the things I love about many of the iPhone apps out there is the way you can interact with others via online multi-player with Cocoto Kart, for example, or games that have Plus+ built in. Plus+ is a social play network for the iPhone and iPod touch, bringing you, your friends and the rest of the world together so you can all challenge eachother.
One of my recently bought games, Skee-Ball by Freeverse Inc., has Plus+ built-in. Skee-Ball is super addictive – a game I used to love playing at the funfair as a child. It’s totally relived in this fantastic game which is just 59p/99c on iTunes. With Plus+ being a feature of this app, I can see what score my friends have on Skee-Ball and compete against them, aswell as check out their Awards and what other Plus+ enabled games they are playing…
With another Plus+ enabled game, Charadium, not only can I once again challenge my friends in a similar way as Skee-Ball, but I can also play against them (and the entire world) as it’s a pictionary multi-player game. If I choose to play against my Plus+ friends only then I can create a room…
…where I can then invite my friends to join me for a game of Charadium…
Charadium is priced 59p in the App Store. Other games that have the Plus+ feature are Rolando 1 & 2, Worms, Topple 2 and many more.
Feel free to add me to your Plus+ friends list: purplelime
Monkey Around with chi.mp
16A few months back I created my Chi.mp domain through private invitation. Chi.mp allows you to bring all of your digital life together to your free domain. You manage your online identity, your content and contacts.
Some of the newest chi.mp features recently introduced are..
Multiple Personas. Personas are your tool for determining who sees what about you on your site. Each Persona can have its own theme, profile information, profile photo/avatar, and content. You can create as many Personas as you like. You can also assign and invite contacts to each Persona.
OpenID. Your visitors can authenticate with their OpenID to see privileged content on your site.
Status Updates. You can now post your status to your site. Let your friends know what you are up to!
MicroID. You may now enable and disable MicroID, which can be used to claim your chi.mp site with other sites that support claiming via MicroID.
Google Analytics. You can now set up a Google Analytics account for your site. Go to Google Analytics and get your Web Property ID, enter it in your .mp site settings and you will be able to track your site traffic with Google Analytics.
And much more!
I have 0 invitations to give away. All you need to do is leave me a comment and I will honour the requests in the order they come. I will send the invitation to the e-mail address you used when commenting unless you state otherwise. GO!
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