Kid iPad Game: Scribble Beard

A friend of mine recently created an iPad game and I finally had time to review it. It’s an iPad drawing, doodling and imagining app for kids called Pirate Scribble Beards Treasure. It’s a sort of high-tech doodle book, where children can use their imagination to create characters, complete the scenes, and more.

It’s ideal for parents that want more than addictive casual games for their children. The game is intuitive and easy to use.
Check out the app in the iTunes App Store

Get Your Apple Apps

Your source for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps is AppSafari. I recently stumbled upon this website and I can’t get my eyes off of it. Many categories to choose from: Accessories, Art, Asia, Auctions, Augmented Reality, Australia, Auto, Bookmarks, Books, Calculators, Calendar, Chat, Coming Soon, Contacts, Cydia Apps, Dating, Developers, Directories, Education, Email, Enterprise, Europe, Events, Featured, Feeds, Files, Finance, Food, Free, Fun, Games, GPS, Health, Homes, Kids, Local, Mac Apps, Maps, Mini, Games, Movies, Music, Net, News, Notes, Phone, Photos, Podcasts, Polls, Portals, Productivity, Radio, Reading, Reference, Religion, Remote, Search, Shareware, Shopping, Social, Spanish, Sports, Traffic, Travel, TV, UK, Utilities, Video, VOIP, Weather, and Webapps.

If you need apps, then you should make this your destination.
http://www.appsafari.com/

Three Blog Writing Tips

I have been a blogger going strong for over seven years. Waking up every morning and putting together your thoughts for the world to read isn’t easy. I recently read a post that suggested some blog writing tips. The article inspired me to hone in on my top three bullet points to get your blog engines running.

1. Keep your posts fresh and innovative – write about topics that make you ponder and push you to learn
2. Have a purpose why you are writing – set a theme to your blog and change the world
3. Develop a rhythm – craft your posts at set times and deliver them regularly to keep your audience interested

TheFind, A Shopper’s Delight

If you like Kayak for booking your travel, then you will like TheFind for shopping. The site states, “The Find helps shoppers find products from more than 500,000 stores and online merchants all at once.” I used the site to make a purchase and did save some dollars. If you are ramping up for the holiday season, then TheFind is highly suggested to put into your shopping mix. As a note, the site is not fully comprehensive with every major shop and the site is open to suggestions on improving the experience.

http://www.thefind.com

Doc Spot Finds Local Physicians

Looking for a local physician or hospital? I always envisioned a search engine that located doctors/medical facilities in my neighborhood. Now the wish has been granted. Doc Spot is in the first phase of its launch, but the site does an incredible job.

Doc Spot searches for doctors or hospitals:

• Browse by location and specialty
• Find a provider by name
• Search by condition or procedure

http://www.docspot.com/

Have You Backed Up Your Facebook Account?

The other day I wondered if Facebook had the option to backup your account. I mean in this day and age, you probably have some pictures and status updates that you don’t have anywhere else but Facebook. So what happens if your account gets compromised or their a glitch at Facebook were your data is lost?

You can backup your Facebook account and leave your worries behind by following simple steps in the video below. Essentially you are going to your account settings and clicking on “Download Your Information”. Thanks to Garrett Haas for the link.

See how you now can download everything you’ve ever posted on Facebook and all your correspondences with friends, in a few easy steps.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150292657680484

Are you an iReporter?

CNN has got into the “i” game by introducing the “iReport”. This feature is part of their website where people take part in the news with CNN. You become an official reporter for CNN and your stories are screened before they post. Essentially the section of the site is being an official blogger for CNN. Only posts marked ‘CNN iReport’ have been vetted by CNN.

Are you an iReporter? Have you thought about doing this for your business?
http://ireport.cnn.com/

Tweet Tracker

Sarah Kabot, a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, is a contestant on Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. As I surfed the Bravo website I came upon a magnificent example of Web 3.0 called the Tweet Tracker.

One of the characteristics’ of Web 3.0 is the need for curated content and Tweet Tracker exemplifies this quality. The app takes all the tweets that are associated with a particular show and streamlines them into one package. Common hashtags are gathered from users across Twitter to centralize the communication. Tweet Tracker makes the experience interactive by giving the messages an 3-D look and feel. Now you can follow you favorite Bravo show’s tweets all in one place.

How do you manage the sheer amount of Tweets in your network? Do you think Tweet Tracker is a good idea?
http://www.bravotv.com/tweettracker

Web 3.0 – Curated User Experience

I believe with the passing of Steve Jobs is the tipping point that will move us from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. Who will replace Steve Jobs? The reality is that no one can replace Steve, but we are using his thought leadership and innovation as a spark of creativity.

Web 1.0 was emphasized by the need for users to establish their space online. Web 2.0 has been classified as giving the power to the people to create, rank and rate their online content. I am officially declaring that Web 3.0 has arrived. This new era is characterized with a strong desire to be guided by experts. Specifically, I see the need for curating content to improve the user experience.

Tim Berners Lee recently stated that Web 3.0 would be the “semantic web” where computers will begin to learn. Tim’s statement emphasizes the fact that users will truly no longer be in charge. Instead users will need increased help either artificially or from more contextual information (curated). This week with the release of IOS5 and the iPhone 4GS, users now will get help from the built-in software called Siri. What signs point to the fact that Web 3.0 is here?

I was asked the question, “Should this new era just be an incremental leap perhaps to a 2.5?” However three distinct changes that are dramatically converging that has pushed this new online era to a head. Social media has added volumes of information into the mix that now as a user, it is difficult for you to tell what is legit. The wired web is now dwarfed by the mobile web with new statistics that have changed the way we perceive the Internet. Technology like the iPad and HTML5 are changing the way the Internet functions and the big players like Adobe are scrambling to keep up. So what does this all mean? Now the Internet is saturated with a diverse sophisticated audience that are accessing it multiple ways and we need help (like it or not).

Three factors that are creating Web 3.0:

• Too much content online and users need experts to guide them (semantic/curated)
• Increasing displayed platforms – mobile web versus wired web
• New technology – HTML5 and tablets like the iPad (the end of flash)

How are you bracing for the three factors in your business plan? I will sharing more examples and elaborating on Web 3.0 as it unfolds.

Apple Movie Trailers

In the past, I typically browsed IMDB for movie trailers to get a glimpse what is on the horizon. I am now hooked on Apple’s movie trailers page. The page is constantly updated and works really well on mobile. Apple recently broke down the fall movie guide.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers