It’s a big day here at PointAbout, as we were just approved through Apple’s Application Store (click here to go to the application - this will open iTunes on your computer).  Now anybody can download PointAbout to their iPhones. We’ve had over 600 iPhone users download the application in the first 12 hours with no marketing efforts! (yet )  Here are some other stats that are knocking our socks off: Over 11,000 page views in the… Read more »

A 1 1/2 minute video blog about an idea:  How to use PointAbout to create a “virtual world within the physical world” Second Life type game.  If you’re interested in pursuing this idea, please let us know

*** PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR APP!!! *** INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. Here’s a short video showcasing our first entry to iStrategyLabs‘ “Apps for Democracy” contest.  Our first submission is a Realtime, location-aware DC alerting tool for the iPhone, which includes crime reports, building permits and more.  This data is provided by Washington, DC and we’re making it “location aware,” meaning the crime alerts in your area, for example, show up first. In fact, we can easily location-enable any… Read more »

Here’s a 2 1/2 minute YouTube video showing what we’ve been up to. Needless to say, we’ve been busy! The PointAbout springboard now has a Safari browser integrated into the application, meaning we no longer have to close the native app and open Safari. Everything happens inside our application now, which gives us much more control over the process of determining the user’s location and sending that data to the web.