The New AppMakr for iPhone is Coming Soon!
November 29, 2009
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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)
Some tools to create RSS feeds out of your content
October 8, 2009
If you have content, but you haven’t yet created an RSS feed of your content, there are tools that will help you do it. Once you have RSS feeds of your content, we can make a great looking iPhone app in under a minute.
Here is a sampling of those tools:
Software programs that will create feeds:
http://www.rss-specifications.com/create-rss-feed.htm
http://www.feedforall.com/
http://www.extralabs.net/
You can also put your content into some web-based CMS systems, and even protect the content so it’s not seen publicly, but the feeds are still readable by us:
Posterous (free): http://www.blogperfume.com/cms-posterous-post-everything-on-blog-using-email/
Wordpress (open source, free): http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email and here are instructions on protecting your feeds: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unique-url-authentication/
Drupal (open source, free): http://www.Drupal.com
Option 1: Custom iPhone & Android App Development
October 1, 2009
If you have a dedicated budget (typically $25,000 and up) and you want a fully customized, native iPhone application, you’ve come to the right place. We have a dedicated, talented team of iPhone and Android developers ready to build your custom app. We are the rockstars of the mobile app building community, with a client list that includes:
- The Washington Post
- Gannett’s ShopLocal
- Politico
- Kohls
- Classified Ventures
- Atmosphere/BBDO
- Qorvis
- GoMobo / Burger King
- Fishbowl
- Rock Creek Strategic Marketing
- The National Guard
If you’re interested in having us give you a quote for your app concept, simply fill out the information at right or call us at 202.391.0347.
PointAbout Announces New iPhone Mashup Template
September 25, 2009
PointAbout Announces New iPhone Mashup Template. By providing PointAbout with your data (for example, via RSS – something you are probably already publishing on your website), we can build an iPhone application in under 27 seconds that’s customized with your brand and your data, using our app creation factory, AppMakr.com. See the video below for an example of an app we made using existing feeds and AppMakr.
Our Imagination Labs
July 29, 2009
We spend our days working through the details of what’s possible, but sometimes it’s nice to just kick back and imagine what’s coming. That’s why we created PointAbout Labs and we’ve teamed up with leading designers like Nic DiPalma to showcase what the apps of the future could look like. If you’d like to join us in our imagination journey, just contact us at right.
If you have an app idea and you’d like us to tell you if it’s possible today, or might be possible tomorrow, or have us quote a price for an app, just contact us at right or cal us at 202.391.0347 and we’ll be happy to help!
Descend – by PointAbout, designed by Nic DiPalma Creative
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What if your jacket could communicate with your phone? |
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FindLove – by PointAbout, designed by Nic DiPalma Creative
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What if you knew your future husband or wife was in the room? |
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Get Workin’ – by PointAbout, designed by Nic DiPalma Creative
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Find Jobs in Your Area, Send Your Resume, and Schedule The Interview |
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$ave Big – by PointAbout, designed by Nic DiPalma Creative
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Get Access to even bigger savings |
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Invasion – by PointAbout, designed by Nic DiPalma Creative
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What if you could play an Augmented Reality game right on your street? |
GoMobo utilizes PointAbout for its “1-Touch Store Locator” service
July 23, 2009
GoMobo, working with PointAbout, is now offering a “1-Touch Store Locator” service to its customers. See slides 7-11 in the video presentation by GoMobo’s CEO below for details:
Augmented / Enhanced Reality with the iPhone & Android
July 21, 2009
We’re big fans of using the iPhone’s and Android’s camera API to provide an augmented reality experience, by combining the analog world & the digital world. We’re currently looking for a client that wants to dive into a project like this with us. If you’re a big fan of what augmented reality can do, we’d love to apply it to your business. An important note is that the camera functionality API is not yet approved by Apple for publishing to the iTunes App Store, but we expect it will be at some point in the near future. This is a good opportunity to be among the first companies that have augmented reality applications in the AppStore!
Here are some examples of apps that use the powerful technology of augmented reality.
Acrossair's "New York Nearest Subway" app creates an augmented-reality mashup of GPS data and known subways.
In real time, it superimposes subway information and directions over floors and walls using the camera's output.
Information on the nearest subway lines and stations appears to "hover" over everything seen by the camera.
Augmenting Social Media
Augmented reality apps can go far beyond simply bringing subway maps to life. Check out TwittARound, a social media app for Twitter users that helps you locate the source of Tweets in your vicinity:
Avatars displayed let you see who's Tweeting nearby.
Check out recent local Tweets with true-to-Twitter functionality.
Still curious? Scroll down for more local Tweets in real time.
Augmented reality is extremely promising and will present even more possibilities as present hardware continues to evolve. If you’re interested in data-mashup applications, or want to extend your brand further than has ever been possible, we’d love to work with you!
HTTP Live Video Streaming on iPhone OS 3.0
July 9, 2009
Apple has enabled HTTP Live Video Streaming on the iPhone OS 3.0. Here is an article that describes the history of RTSP and HTTP streaming, and here is a technical document that explains how it works.
If you’d like to create an application that incorporates live video streaming, just contact us at right and we’ll work through the details with you.
Rapid App Dev: Customized Mash-Ups
June 15, 2009
PointAbout has developed a low cost, high ROI approach to mobile app creation that leverages a company’s RSS, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter & other XML feeds and related APIs within a modular app framework that can be further customized, allowing a company to create mobile apps at a low cost and little to no development time.
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PointAbout uses AppMakr.com to create a mobile app just by using the company’s published RSS feeds – no development work is necessary. Then, PointAbout customizes the app to the customer’s preferences. This approach provides a rapid development cycle that’s 73% faster than traditional application development and about 30% of the cost.
Watch the video below to see the base app created by AppMakr.
PointAbout’s “Modular Native” Apps from Daniel R. Odio on Vimeo.
Mobilize Your Content via Feeds you Already Publish
June 8, 2009
PointAbout has developed a way for you to mobilize your content quickly, using feeds you already publish, such as RSS or XML feeds. See the video above for details. Below are some screenshots of some other apps we’ve published using this method.
