There is big news from Slacker this week. AOL just announced that Slacker will power AOL's radio. As stated in the LA Times Blogs "AOL's Jeff Bronikowski and Geno Yoham has been working to deliver a better radio experience for their audience. Slacker is a superior service...this is their opportunity to shine in the spotlight". This collaboration will more than double Slacker's listeners. As a benefit, AOL radio listeners will have access to Slacker's 3 tiers ranging from free Basic Radio, to Radio Plus, all the way to full on demand with Slacker Premium. RadioInk reports that AOL will be playing fewer commercials for users who subscribe to Radio Plus or Premium Radio as one of the benefits. Slacker's premium features include listing to all the tracks users want to listen to, the ability to skip songs and save favorite songs or stations as mentioned by Fast Company. The arrangement between Slacker and AOL will not only increase Slacker's audience but also allow both companies to produce new advertising opportunities for mutual clients. Bizzy also had a big announcement this week. Bizzy's mobile app replaces out-dated methods of reviewing restaurants and the need to check online before going out to eat. Bizzy was designed for mobile and with purpose of being more social and easier for people to participate and interact with each other as mentioned in PC Magazine. Bizzy's mobile app, which allows users to rate and share places they go eat with people who follow them, has released new features. Now, users are able to follow friends and people with similar tastes, browse their Bizzy Feed to see where other users are going and their access their reviews. Bizzy also offers a "Try It" list that stores the places that users are interested in trying. There is also a feature that locates similar places around your "Try It" restaurant and from your other Bizzy recommendations. Mashable mentions that users who like different types of food and restaurants will not be recommended the wrong place. User reviews can now be shared on Facebook and Twitter so your friends and followers know your opinion on a restaurant as well as you can learn theirs.
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The week maybe coming to a close on this Friday the 13th, but for Stern Pinball and Monsoon Multimedia things are just getting started. Stern Pinball and Disney have teamed up to bring TRON: Legacy Pinball to pinball fans and movie goers alike. CNET recently featured TRON: Legacy on CRAVE saying "The playfield features light cycles, deadly discs, and other notable imagery from the film. The audio doesn't slouch either, as the original Daft Punk soundtrack and character sound clips emit during gameplay." The rest of the article can be found here. We often hear about how smartphones continue to sell in astonishing numbers in the U.S., but smartphones are also popular all over the world, especially in Japan and Asia. Monsoon Multimedia, a leading provider of video convergence products, recognizes that growth and announced a partnership with top-tier computer peripherals and interface product manufacturer I-O DATA to bring one of Monsoon's products, the Vulkano Flow, to consumers in Japan.
As we wave goodbye to another week, we'd like to share some great news for Poynt and an invite from Bizzy on this Earth Day. In an exclusive interview with CNET, Poynt gave the details on their app for the BlackBerry PlayBook. One of the new features for the next update of the app, CNET wrote, "was People finding businesses with Poynt will be able to click the tablet app to place a BlackBerry call, add a phone number to the phone's address book, add entries to the phone's calendar, and trigger turn-by-turn directions." The rest of the article can be found on CNET. Whrrlers, You're Invited to Get Bizzy! Upload your data for Bizzy recs! http://t.co/W7LwlyE
On Monday night, at about 9 PM PT, Bizzy launched the "Check Out." "Wait, what? You mean the 'check in'" No, we mean CHECK OUT! Checking in via Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, etc. is awesome. We do it all the time. Checking in let's your friends and followers know, "Hey, I'm here, come say hi." But then what? "Check Out!" Let your friends and followers know what you thought of the place you just visited. Were the fries good? Was the wait staff nice? How was the ambiance? The decor? People LOVE sharing things and guess what, we want to know what you think. With Bizzy's "Check Out" not only can you share your opinions and experiences with people but providing Bizzy with that info helps them give you even better personalized local business recommendations. It's a win-win. You can grab Bizzy for your iPhone or Android smartphone and start checking out right now! You can also read more about the news on AllThingsDigital, GigaOm, PC Magazine and Technologizer. With yet another week coming to a close we wanted to post a few of the highlights we had, because what's a week-end but the chance to reflect on your accomplishments from the week before? Catch.com launched Catch Pro, the premium version of leading note-capturing application Catch Notes. With increased monthly bandwidth and attachment support, Catch Pro delivers an optimum service for creating, organizing and sharing the sights, sounds and ideas that make up your daily life. Read about it on Geeky Gadgets, Android Guys. First Orion (PrivacyStar.com) will be in Washington D.C. next week meeting with the Federal Trade Commission to discuss the PrivacyStar service. PrivacyStar subscribers recently hit a milestone: 100,000 consumer complaints filed with the FTC. First Orion's work has received recognition from Arkansas US Senator Mark Pryor as well, including First Orion in a CEO Roundtable in late February. The creative team over at Bizzy (the local business recommendation engine) challenged their Dallas Community Manager, Elysa, to identify her top 5 Bizzy recommendations for cupcakeries in Dallas. She then had to obtain one specialty of the house, observe and document the aesthetic beauty of the cupcake, note the "enticement of smell factor," determine the "smashability" of each cupcake (by smashing it in her face) and then assess the flavor by sampling what's left on her face. Sound fun or what? And lastly, the team had a huge win with Walt Mossberg and the Wall Street Journal when Walt did a stand alone review of the Peel Universal Control! Go team! Peel VP of Marketing, Alec Marshall Bizzy, a personalized local business recommendation engine powered by people with similar tastes to yours, launched their Android app. You can read about it on PC Magazine’s AppScout, IntoMobile or SiliconANGLE. Peel headed to Los Angeles for the Variety Television Summit to show off what they have coming. Smith Micro Software unveiled Poser Debut, the first product of its kind to let beginning artists start designing and animating 3D characters in a flash for just under $50 - check out a video of the new software based on its popular Poser line. And last but not least, STERN Pinball (the world’s only maker of real pinball games) released their Rolling Stones Pinball Machine, which you can read more about at Retroist! |
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