The New AppMakr for iPhone is Coming Soon!

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UPDATE: AppMakr is now live! You can find it here.

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PointAbout not only makes custom iPhone and Android apps for some of the biggest brands on the planet, we are also about to release the new AppMakr.com, which will revolutionize the way iPhone apps are created by allowing anyone to build and compile an app in minutes instead of months, all in a self-service tool that will enable users to manage apps and developer accounts.  Below are screenshots from the new AppMakr.  If you’d like to learn more, you can email us at info@AppMakr.com. (click the image below to enlarge)

HCPLive To Go, Available in the iTunes App Store

HCPLive To Go, created by PointAbout’s AppMakr.com service, is now available in the iTunes App Store.  Screenshots below.

Apple & Android account for 75% of mobile web traffic in the U.S.

According to TechCrunch:

“When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by all the mobile ad requests it tracks. That number is up from a combined 65 percent in September, 2009.”

Cambridge’s ClareAlumni iPhone App Launched

PointAbout today announced the launch of an iPhone application for Cambridge’s Clare College.  The College was founded in 1326 and was the first of the Oxford and Cambridge foundations to provide for a Master, Fellows and Scholars in a single community.

Johnny Langridge of Clare College writes,

“PointAbout’s AppMakr service has allowed us to do something amazing:  Leverage RSS content we were already publishing, and turn it into a great iPhone application.  This means we can get our content into people’s hands when they’re on the go using the RSS feeds we’re already publishing to the web.  It’s a win-win.  No extra work was required on our part, because AppMakr handled the entire app creation and submission process.

The service they provide is gold standard and we can’t thank them enough. The level of customer service is exemplary, the speed of response / delivery and attention to detail are faultless – they are a total pleasure to work with and we look forward to doing so in the future.”

PointAbout Wins “Perfect Score” award from DC Disruptathon

PointAbout was awarded today the “Perfect Score” award by Disruptathon, for having the highest number of “5 out of 5″ scores by the Disruptathon audience.

PointAbout competed against nine other mobile innovators in the Washington, DC area, and the audience scored all the presentations on their handheld devices.  PointAbout presented its AppMakr.com service at the event.

More about Disruptathon: “Disruptathon is a cultural innovation event set in either a public or private forum that seeks to discover the brightest new ideas and the people behind them in an interactive and democratic forum. Our public events are accessible to any level of innovator from the independent developer or inventor to major companies. Disruptathon is a supportive, informative and fun event for all involved.”

The next Disruptathon event is on January 20th, 2010 at Teqcorner in McLean, VA.

Kohls, Published by ShopLocal, Powered by PointAbout

Kohls is a new application by PointAbout’s client, ShopLocal (owned by Gannett).  It was designed by ShopLocal and built by PointAbout.  We created a custom template for this application, which we then loaded into AppMakr.com for ShopLocal to access.  Now, ShopLocal can quickly make applications for all its other clients using this custom template and AppMakr’s proprietary compiling and building engine.  PointAbout has given ShopLocal the ability to offer its clients a native iPhone application in days, without ShopLocal having to do the work.  To learn more about leveraging your own custom template with AppMakr, contact us at right or call 202.391.0347.