All Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Greg Gomer

Want to try RiotVine’s Foursquare Beta?

Boston's RiotVine announces latest feature at Music 2.0 event

Boston's RiotVine announces Foursquare beta launch.

Two weeks ago Jennie White and I attended THE event for Boston’s music and tech scene and were blown away by all of the presenters and the amazingly innovative work they are doing at the intersection of music and technology. At the event, RiotVine’s founder Kabir Hemrajani revealed the coming launch of a new Foursquare integration that will allow music artists to customize the fan experience during a concert.

RiotVine — a platform that finds and aggregates local events and tells you which of your friends have plans to attend — will tap into Foursquare’s API to tell performers who’s at their concert. The artists will then be able to share tracks during the show in real time with fans in attendance.

Here’s your chance to dive in and see for yourself how RiotVine is taking Foursquare to the next level. If you’re like me and already have a growing list of must-see shows this summer, at the Comcast Center, BOA Pavilion and Beachcomber, this is a must-try.  You might meet fellow concert goers like yourself and make plans for the rest of the year’s events!

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Sarah Merion

Got an iPhone App Idea? Appswell Just Might Buy It

Appswell builds iPhone apps YOU think are cool

Building iPhone apps YOU think are cool

How do iPhone apps get popular? Well, most of the time iPhone apps go viral because one person has a good idea that other people find awesome, too.

This is the premise that iPhone app developing company Appswell works off of. The company, which launched in October, is based in Cambridge with four in-house developers. They work in conjunction with a development partner, Bit Group.

Why so many developers? Because they develop iPhone apps on-demand!

Appswell works like this: Users submit ideas for new apps and then the community votes on the best ones. Each “contest period” runs for 100 days. Appswell then picks one to two of the best ideas every month to develop and bring to market. The person who submits the winning idea gets $1,000 cash and 10% of the profits. Appswell calls this process “the democratization of brilliant decisions.” (more…)