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‘In Syria, there was always a way to avoid bureaucracy, even if it meant paying a bit of extra money. Here, there is no way around the paperwork,’ Khattab said.
Read more on the Guardian from a couple of days ago. The app is brilliantly named Bureaucrazy. They need funds and coding support.
The app links up with the Rotten Tomatoes API, and at the moment its algorithms make suggestions based on film titles you input. You could also use actors, directors, genres and other parameters.
Movie Night, an app developed at TC Disrupt hackathon enables you and your friends to collaboratively decide on a movie to watch. You know, in order to avoid the endless debate. Does it work in real life scenarios I don’t know. But I sure would like to give it a try.
Columize is a news curation tool. It lets you create and share collections of URLs.
You can also react on each curation so as to make your collections topical mini blogs.
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Add ingredients and this app will present you with cocktails you can make. Cleverly implemented although I’m not a fan of this style of visual design.
It’s free so try it out.
It’s available now.
Reporter is a new application for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurabl
I’ve been using it for a few weeks and the result is amazing (the visualization part, especially). It’s not connected to the Internet so no worries about privacy.
Canopy: cool products available on Amazon
Today I discovered Canopy thanks to Product Hunt. I wrote about product hunt here.
Dan Counsell discusses three different pricing strategies for apps. Paymium: paid at first, with paid premium features. Interesting stuff.
The Legend of Zelda taught me everything I need to know about UX
I miss the days when video games assumed their players possessed a modicum of intelligence and common sense. These days, elaborate tutorials sap the fun out of the early levels of modern games, repeatedly prodding users with instructions and tips as if we possessed the mental acumen of a stack of cinder blocks.
This is about the debate of walkthrough vs. let the user discover the app. I think that for games it makes sense for users to discover everything by themselves because, well, it’s a game.
But it quickly becomes frustrating if you’re using an app that delivers something valuable other than entertainment and you don’t know how it works. It’s a fragile balance.
The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
Very clever; Dennis Crowley, founder of Foursquare envisioned his app as a “fellow traveler” and not something you had to check in to for it to give you recommendations.
It now dispenses passive recommendations as you stroll through a city. Any users with feedback?