YouTube Capture is designed to simplify the process of shooting mobile video and uploading it to YouTube, allowing you to shoot, touch up, caption and share videos to YouTube, Google+, Facebook and Twitter in just a few clicks.
Dish.fm shows users what is the best dish, drink or dessert to order at any given eatery based on the results of millions of reviews pulled from Yelp, Foursquare and other sites. Photos, reviews and overall ratings are available for each dish, and users can share their own opinions as well by voting for the dishes they like.
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Easilydo doesn't necessarily replace an existing app, but it's kind of like a smart proactive to-do list for the iPhone. The app uses similar techniques to others - slurping in your email and Facebook and everything else and applying natural language processing and other logic - and suggests simple tasks it can complete for you.
"The Beam Brush is the first app-connected toothbrush. A sensor embedded in the upper part of the brush tracks your activity and syncs it to the company's app on your smartphone via Bluetooth. The free app is available for your Android or iPhone device. By recording this data, you can get a better picture of your overall dental hygiene habits."
"Big Is Beautiful
As smartphone screens get larger, companies have found some success with ads such as "takeovers" that briefly fill all or most of a device's screen.
San Francisco app company Fotopedia sells such ads on its iPhone and iPad apps, which let people flip through high-quality photographs of Paris, national parks or wild animals.
Marketers including National Geographic and travel websites Jetsetter and Expedia Inc. EXPE -0.23% pay roughly $1 to $1.50 for each user who clicks an ad, which fill a full screen. Like fashion ads in a luxury magazine, the Fotopedia ads appear every 10 "pages" or so of the app.
As many as 18% of people who see an ad click on it, said Christophe Daligault, Fotopedia's senior vice president of global operations. On the Web, it isn't unusual for just 1% of people shown an ad to interact with it, marketers said.
Still, big ads should be used sparingly, some marketers said. Craig Bierley, director of General Motors Co.'s GM -0.84% Buick advertising, said the auto maker tends to limit takeover ads to major product introductions because otherwise "people might find it annoying.""