A new local deal finder resource for mobile users in Australia comes to iOS and Android device users from Restaurant Deals Oz. The app is designed specifically to enable users to easily find great deals from restaurants and bars thanks to some cleaver geotagging of happy hour specials and other deals. Restaurant and bar owners are being courted by a 30 day free trial offer to get listed. Personally, I really like the business model here of having establishment owners pay to get listed – I’d like to see more of this so we can start seeing the revenues going directly to the developers! See more in this PR on the LBSzone
Archives for March 1, 2012
Jack Talking GeoDesign at TED
This one goes back a little bit, however, the idea is timeless. Enjoy again this TED talk from Esri President Jack Dangermond as he discussed his passion, GeoDesign. About the video… Esri president Jack Dangermond spoke at TED2010 about GeoDesign, a concept which enables architects, urban planners, and others to harness the power of GIS to design with nature and geography in mind – see more including transcript and original video recording HERE
As a young landscape architect I was very excited by this idea and also excited by computers and the notion that somehow I could automate this and models and do something with it. (Jack Dangermond)
comScore 2012 Mobile Future Report Sees Tablet growth, Android uptake, Social networking
comScore Releases the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus Report – The report highlights insights primarily from mobile markets in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada. From the report, Smartphone Platform Wars Intensify as Android and Apple Take the Lead in Most Markets and interesting to see how much momentum the Android OS has made in the North American market, easily outpacing iOS. Some highlights of the findings:
- Nearly 42 percent of all U.S. mobile subscribers now use smartphones
- Google Android and Apple iOS smartphone platforms emerged as the leaders of the U.S. smartphone market in 2011
- In 2011, both the U.S. and EU5 saw the growth in mobile app use exceed the growth in mobile browser use
- More than half of the U.S. smartphone population used their phone to perform retail research while inside a store in 2011
- 64.2 million U.S. smartphone users and 48.4 million EU5 smartphone users accessed social networking sites or blogs on their mobile devices at least once in December 2011
- Tablets quickly rose in popularity in 2011, taking less than two years to account for nearly 40 million tablets in use among U.S
