Oct 7, 2010

written by Tuesday Hagiwara As the mainstream media struggles to deliver instantaneous news, thought provoking in-depth news, which costs time and money to develop, can fall by the wayside. Spot.us is a website that encourages “community powered reporting”, allowing the public to choose and fund the stories they want to hear. At Spot.us there are no...

Tap Me Inc. is revolutionizing the mobile gaming experience, providing an attractive solution for both advertisers and gamers. Currently, most mobile advertising is done through banner ads or other web technology which link to an outside website. If a user chooses to click on the advertising, his or her gaming experience is interrupted while he or she is connected to an outside site. Tap Me Inc. provides a seamless user experience by integrating advertising directly into the game, using what they refer to as an “in-game sponsorship and rewards system”.

Sep 6, 2010

Social media provides a great vehicle for marketers, thought leaders, and individual contributors who share information organically. Despite the myriad of social media applications, many communicators still struggle to communicate accurately and effectively to their target audience. Meanwhile, the intended audience is left to their own devices to sort through mounds of superfluous information on a daily basis. n2, a new social media optimization and recommendation tool, offers a solution to those facing information and conversation overload.

Cameron Henneke, Chicago resident, software engineer and entrepreneur brings us GQueues, a full featured google-oriented task manager that focuses on simplicity.

Aug 24, 2010

If you are new to the city, looking to build new friendships, or just plain love food, there’s a new social networking group for you! Grubwith.us takes the social networking concept and turns it inside out. The website, whose tagline reads “the social dining experiment”, seeks to bring your social online network, offline.