5 cool, free, fun Social Media Location-Aware iPhone Apps with Twitter Connect
Written by @gletham
Saturday, 05 December 2009
I love Friday and i really dig sharing, so Im glad to share with
you a few very cool, handy, and best of all, free apps for you iPhone
users (some of these apps may be available for others mobile platforms
so search if interested).
The following are 5 cool, free Social
Location-aware apps that I highly suggest and best of all, they all
connect with your Twitter and/or facebook as well!
Flook (@Flook & @ambientwit) - Flook is a fun,
custom photo card creation tool. Simply create an account, select a
theme (color), add a custom headline and message, embed a photo
(capture or select from gallery) . When finished upload the photo to
their service for storage in your account and a message is sent to your
Twitter to notify your friends. The app is location-aware and will
geotag your photo based on your location/and/or a little help from you
by selecting a place to locate the image. Search iTunes for Flook or
see some of my Flooks HERE
A Flook postcard
Everlater (@EverLater) - This cool apps comes from
a Colorado start-up (Boulder I believe) and provides users with a very
handy travel journal tool. The app enables users to document a trip
with notes and images, then stores details online for sharing with
colleagues. The app provides facebook connect and in my mind, provides
the added usability that Dopplr should have incorporated to make it
even more social and fun! This app rocks! http://www.everlater.com/ or
see a sample journal entry I created at http://www.everlater.com/glennt/fort-collins. They also provide a cool widget tool as well
EverLater on iPhone
Gowalla (@Gowalla) is another location sharing tool
that iPhone users may enjoy. Simply call up the app and it detects
where you are and whats nearby. Select or create a POI and check-in
(similar to brightkite or foursquare). this sends a Tweet (or facebook
update) and notifies your colleagues where your are, what your doing
and serves up a nice map (gmaps) . Similar to foursquare, the service
offers rewards for multiple check-ins! I just received a Festive
Americano for checking into my local coffee shop! Setting it apart from
other apps, gowalla users can create and share trips, like a guided
tour of a zoo or ?? http://gowalla.com/
Gowalla on iPhone
WorldSurfer (GeoVector) - This app from GeoVector
is a clever, mobile, local search utility providing users with fast,
simple access to local search results from popular search tools like
Google, Bing, WikiPedia, and others. The app delivers directional
search results to users, for example, searching for coffee will return
something like Starbucks NW 2.3 miles etc clicking the entry enables
the user to retrieve address, weblink, ph number, and directions/map.
See http://www.geovector.com/
WorldSurfer on iPhone
MapZen (@Cloudmade)- This amazing app from
CloudMade enables anyone with an iPhone to take part in an OpenStreet
Mapping party! The tool provides access to a users OSM account,
enabling them to collect and store data updates for Open Street Map
awesome!! The app also connects via facebook and Twitter enabling data
collectors to share updates with friends. See http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/
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