After many years of analyzing business plans, watching entrepreneurs
deliver phenomenal business opportunities to investors and convincing prospects
to take a risk on a new technology; I never tire of looking and playing with
innovation. Here for your review are
some recent technologies I’ve seen in the past few months which you might want
to play with or learn more about. Most of these potential killer applications were seen at Cloudforce and Startupism 2012.
IOS Based:
Highlight: A Scobelizer pick, which you might ordinarily
overlook. This app will operate quietly
in the background and tell you if anyone in your contact list is within one
block or if there are people you have substantial common interest with in the immediate area. You might say so what? But if you are at a trade show or conference
or concert or ball game, there might be somebody interesting to meet. I met 8 new people in 5 minutes! highlig.ht/about.html
IOS &/or Android Based:
Crowdcall: Call groups of people directly from your iPhone simultaneously, like family, friends, co-workers and customers. No-Charge! Another Startupism winner!
SMARTR aka XOBNI: Newly released and gives you your entire email
history with everyone from all of your contact lists. Don’t know why someone is in your contact
list, here is a great way to find out! xobni.com
InvoiceASAP: Does your invoicing from your mobile
device. Great for service and sales
people on the go! www.invoiceasap.com
JustShareIt: An innovative telematics solution and business idea for those who
want to rent their vehicle or to rent other people’s vehicles. A Startupism winner, let’s
see if the dogs eat the dog food! justshareit.com
Gmail Based:
YesWare: A utility for tracking
when your email is read, where it is read and what device it is read on. Also tracks responses. Taking the guesswork out of did your message
get delivered? A salesperson’s dream! yesware.com
Rapportive: Interface for providing recent social media
activity of person chosen. The interface
seems cleaner than competitors. rapportive.com
Browser Based:
Empire Avenue: Want to see what your worth in Social
Media? They take Klout & PeerIndex
to a new level with both an objective component and a subjective component, which is a game where your peers get to trade you as a stock based on your
brand recognition capability. Recommend
this to marketing people and social media mavens. empireavenue.com
Reachable: One of the best new contact managers I have
seen. It will give you every possible
connection between you and someone else based on your personal data and your mutual web-based data, including, Facebook, Jigsaw, Linkedin, etc. Reachable.com
BunchBall: Gamification company. I liked their philosophy, their approach and
direction. In short, how do you turn
user processes into a game and make the work of learning a new process
fun. They have completed such a game for
Salesforce.com. bunchball.com
