Socialize CEO Daniel Odio moderated a discussion today with Socialize executive team members Jason Polites, Isaac Mosquera and Sean Shadmand about how Socialize has created an infrastructure that supports over 7 million API requests per day, 2.5 million social actions (now creating 1 million new actions per month), 100,000 new users per day, over 7,000
Movie buffs unite! Especially now that they can all find each other through the Socialize-enabled MoviePal app. Described as the “Shazam for movies”, MoviePal lets you log and learn about a particular movie—we’re talking movie details, show times, release dates—simply by listening to a few seconds of the trailer. As if the idea that your
If users access your app on more than one device, say an iPhone and an iPad, it can be difficult ensure the user’s profiles are managed correctly, especially if they have the option to authenticate via multiple mechanisms — Facebook and Twitter, for example. Socialize makes managing users across multiple devices seamless. Sean explains the
Have you always viewed coconuts as more foe than friend? Sure, their water is deliciously refreshing and—if Gilligan’s Island has taught us anything—they make great radios. But for all you know, they’re just waiting up there in those trees to fall smack on your head. Well, now you can get your sweet revenge. With the
This one’s short and sweet—and will tickle your funny bone. Browse thousands of hilarious videos from across the web with the XVideo Android app from developer furbie. Not Furby. Although that would be hilarious…and terrifying. Watch your pick of continually updated videos that are funny, silly and just plain ridiculous, straight off of your device.
It’s almost summer! Know what that means? Nope, not ice cream cones and sundresses and cottages. Not this year. That’s all overshadowed by the 2012 Summer Olympics in jolly old London, England! And you can be sure you’ll be ready with the 2012 London Olympics Planner app for Android. You won’t miss a beat of
This year’s festival is already over but that only means you have a whole year to pump yourself up for the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, March 22-24, 2013. And since the Ultra Music Festival Android app is now powered by Socialize, you can rally all of your friends—and their friends and friends of friends—for
Have you ever wanted a really small, shiny, rectangular guitar that has all of your friends’ phone numbers in it? We’re talking about your phone. Your phone is now a guitar. This is probably one of the coolest uses of a touch screen we’ve seen in a while. The Guitar! HD app takes your regualar
Socialize is on the move! All the way across pond, then a few more steps, then take a right. The Socialize SDK was recently integrated into Webby, a Russian Android app that gives you the latest and greatest in internet trends. We think we’ll celebrate with a vodka shot. Granted, our Russian is a little
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We’ve been welcomed to the family! Developer Chimani’s family of National Parks apps. And we couldn’t be more pumped to have a part in bringing mobile, social and the great outdoors together. Chimani recently updated the app for Yellowstone Park, and one of those updates included the addition of Socialize. In his blog, he describes
Before we introduce the awesome 4synced Android app, which recently got awesomer (not a word, but just play along) by integrating Socialize, we should introduce the site 4shared.com. It’s an online storage tool that let you store audio, video, photos, and all that good stuff, and share those files with whoever you choose. It’s brother,
Last week’s three day MoDevUX conference was a great opportunity for mobile app developers and designers to converge and discuss many app-related topics. On Saturday, LivingSocial opened its new DC office up for a MoDevUX hackathon, and Socialize sponsored a $500 prize for the best implementation. The winners were the team from Eventurer, a treaure
Socialize CEO Daniel Odio moderated a panel at this year’s Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit at the Gannett headquarters in McLean, VA titled “Mobile Marketing: Beyond The Hype.” The panel discussed what’s working well in mobile marketing, what’s not working well, and what some of the most interesting trends on the horizon are, among many other things.
Socialize CEO Daniel Odio spoke at the fantastic MoDevUX conference about how Socialize has designed an API & SDK for app developers. The Socialize SDK has seen rapid uptake from developers, as detailed on Daniel’s blog. Here’s his presentation
Our Android developer, Jason, isn’t exactly from outer space—but he is from Australia and that’s about as far away as you can get from here while staying earthbound. Regardless, he’s made us proud with a silly and awesome app that lets you plant UFO’s all over your Android’s photo album. The UFO Cam app by
Who knew math could feel so…artistic? Introducing the 3D graph OpenGL app for Android, a beautifully crafted app from developer sajmons that brings your equations instantly to life with colorful 3D renderings. Simply enter your equation in the text box at the top of the screen and hit the “Draw” button. Watch as your equation
Just like Solitaire and Bejeweled, Minesweeper is a classic that brings you back to playing it on your clunky desktop before the Internet stole all your free time with cats playing keyboards and meme after meme after meme. But just because it’s a classic doesn’t mean it gets left behind—Minesweeper has gone mobile with the
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when Quarter Pounders, Frappuccinos and spicy tuna rolls didn’t exist. And not only did people not collapse from caffeinated-whipped-cream-deficiency, they walked for miles gathering berries and fought of sabre-toothed tigers with their bare hands (we can only assume)! Um, we’ll have what they’re having? If you
Ok, so the Zombie Apocalypse may or may not be a real threat to all of humankind. But who said we can’t have a little fun while we’re preparing for it? Hone your zombie-conquering skills with Zombie Bash for Android, an app that lets you take out zombies three-by-three to claim yourself the new leader
Every app developer wants to have a better rating in their app, but it’s hard to identify the people most likely to rate your app positively and encourage them to do so. SmartAlert MicroTargeting from Socialize makes this process far easier. Here’s how: Your most active users are the ones most likely to give your
Socialize <3 MobileX, and we just can’t stay away! In March, Socialize CEO Daniel Odio gave a keynote at the Cincinnati MobileX conference, and then last week Sean Shadmand, co-founder and president of Socialize, gave a keynote at the Lexington MobileX conference. We’re looking forward to whatever mobile events MobileX throws next! Sean’s keynote, titled “Shaping your mobile
Do you play XBox 360, 360 days out of the year (the remaining 5 days left for Gatorade and Mr. Noodles runs)? Even if you don’t, no one will know the difference. With the XBox 360 Cheats Codes + app for iOS, you’ll know everything there is to know. About XBox games…not the meaning of
Take away our shoelaces and throw us in a padded room, because we—and the rest of the world—have incurable Linsanity! And now there’s an app for that. This Harvard-degree-toting basketball machine is an unstoppable force, and now you can keep up with him via the Jeremy Lin: Asian-American Basketball Phenom app for iPhone. Check out
What’s a music lover gotta do to indulge themselves around here? Not much, really. Just download the FanTastic Top Artists app and you’ll have virtually every music artist—and over 20,000,000 song previews—in the palm of your hand. Powered by last.fm, this iOS app features a weekly Top 100 list, letting you browse the hottest artists
Disposable coffee cups are more than just paper and plastic and a lipstick stains and “Careful! Contents are hot!” warnings (duh) so people don’t sue when they spill all over themselves. They’re also a vehicle for fun and games! If you’ve ever been to Canada, you’re surely familiar with the Tim Hortons coffee shop franchise,
Regular walking has gotten a little dull, no? Point A to point B. Yawn. In our opinion, it could use a little mystery. Maybe some treasure. And some little green men wouldn’t hurt. Good thing someone (we’re looking at you, F5 tbl) came up with TrailHit, a stupendously awesome location-based real world treasure hunt game
Sure, staying active is good for you and keeps you healthy and all that good stuff that we like to think is motivation enough in itself. But when it comes to busting your bum at the gym 3 times a week or going for that jog at 6:30 in the morning, sometimes the vague lure
Geek Out with our iOS dev, Nate Griswold From time to time, we’re able to pull Nate away from his job developing Socialize on iOS to write a post. This is one such post. It’s more technical than most of our content, but if you want to geek out with Nate, you’ll probably enjoy it.
Thanks Karel for your great piece about Socialize and AppMakr! Listen to the audio here
We’ve been getting some fantastic reports from Socialize app developers telling us how Socialize has increased app downloads and engagement. Here are a few highlights that we’ve heard recently. Nexercise: +551% Install Boost, +103% Impressions, +114% Comments & Likes! Nexercise is a fitness + gamification app that implemented Socialize in its latest release. CEO Ben
Whether you’re from Dayton, Ohio or just keeping tabs on what goes on there, the Dayton Daily News app for Android ensures you won’t miss a single thing. The Dayton Daily News is Dayton’s largest newspaper, with up-to-date coverage of everything that’s happening around the city. Having now implemented Socialize, readers can like their favorite
You look like you could use a drink. And now that the Mixology Drink Recipes iOS app by Digital Outcrop has implemented Socialize, I can share the perfect recipe with you. If you fancy yourself an amateur bartender (or a professional drinker), consider this app a gold mine. Thousands of drink recipes, a “Liquor Cabinet”
Is your Android looking a little tired lately? Has it lost its sparkle from when you first got it and were simply enamored with having a shiny new device to play with? No worries. Just give it a little makeover with the FullHD Wallpaper app, which has now been Socialized. Search from among thousands of
Once a cheater, always a cheater. Especially if you’ve got the Cheats iOS app by Digital Hot Sauce, which now has Socialize implemented so you can swap tips with other gaming aficionados. Cheats contains little-known tips and tricks on beating virtually every game out there (we’re talking everything XBox, Wii, and PS3). And with the
We’re happy to announce support for Twitter in addition to Facebook. Allowing the social actions of your users to propagate out to social networks is a key part of completing TheLoop to drive installs of your app. To get started, just download the latest Socialize SDK. Here are two screenshots from the IBEX Droid app
Employee Snapshot From time to time we randomly check in with an employee to see what he or she is working on right now and share the result on our blog. We use a special form (at right) to capture a snapshot of what the employee is up to with minimal impact on productivity. Below
Vagrant is a command line interface (CLI) for running and configuring a virtual machine (VM) based off of VirtualBox. It locally creates an isolated environment for developer to mess around and not have to worry about screwing your own local machine. Problem I am working on a python/Django blog which I am running on an
Like many other domains we were recently been affected by the DDoS attack on Namecheap’s nameservers. We thought this would be a good time to move to another NS provider and then use Namecheap as a backup. Unfortunately Namecheap doesn’t let you export the hostname into a BIND zone file, but it does come with
Our president Sean Shadmand participated on a panel at Potomac Tech Wire’s jam packed Mobile Outlook 2012 event at the Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA recently. Here’s a video of the panel
Socialize CEO Daniel Odio participated on a fantastic panel at Canadian Music Week titled “Media on Tablets & Mobile Devices,” moderated by Anthony Bruno, Community Manager, digitalmusic.org at NARM. Here’s some insight from Daniel on the panel: I just finished a great panel at CMW. On the panel was also Stephen Henrik of The Globe & Mail,
Geek Out with our CTO, Isaac Mosquera From time to time, we’re able to pull Isaac away from his job architecting Socialize to write a post. This is one such post. It’s more technical than most of our content, but if you want to geek out with Isaac, you’ll probably enjoy it. Want to continue
Geek Out with our CTO, Isaac Mosquera From time to time, we’re able to pull Isaac away from his job architecting Socialize to write a post. This is one such post. It’s more technical than most of our content, but if you want to geek out with Isaac, you’ll probably enjoy it. Want to continue
It’s the great equalizer: no matter who you are or where you’re from, at some point in life, a fart has made you laugh. And the mobile industry has definitely caught onto this—seriously, fart apps are killing it. And one app in particular has brought Socialize in on the action. Introducing FartCloud, an Android app
The engagement boost you’ll get from having SmartAlerts in your app is so significant, we’ve decided to make SmartAlerts FREE, as part of the Startup Plan. If you’re a Socialize developer and you haven’t already implemented SmartAlerts in your app, we highly encourage you to do it. Here’s how: Step 1: Go to the SmartAlerts
Want to make Socialize even better? We have a new program where we’re offering 3 free months of the Socialize Business Plan for contributing to our source code. Get the details here
If you walked into the Socialize office on any given day, you’d hear a lot of the same terms and phrases thrown around. Interest Graph is one of them. The Loop is another. And more often than not, “burrito” paired with “size of my head”. But the newest addition to the Socialize lexicon is something
Today Socialize CEO Daniel Odio gave a keynote at the sold-out MobileX conference in Cincinnati. Here’s what he had to say: I can’t tell you how impressed I am by this group. Brian, Therese, Evan and the entire crew did an amazing job scheduling and executing on this event, and it’s no wonder it
SmartAlerts just got smarter, with Microtargeting. App developers now have the ability to interact with specific users on an individual basis. This is an incredible way to segment and interact with your user base. Microtarget by Entity: CouponCloset is a top coupon app that has integrated Socialize. One of its entities is a 25% off coupon
Socialize developers can already get detailed intelligence on their app users through our App Intelligence Dashboard. But it gets better — here’s a sneak peek at some much-requested functionality: The ability for you to communicate with any of your users on a one-on-one basis, by sending that user a SmartAlert
Make that calling all werewolves, fishers, hunters, horoscope junkies, pruners and sowers! The Moon Phases Lite Android app keeps you up to speed on the moon’s every move and the effect each phase has on the earth, stars, and tides. With the newly implemented Socialize ActionBar, Moon Phase Lite users can post content to existing
Want to know every trap door, candlestick lever and nook and cranny that lurks within your iPhone, iTouch or iPod? The Tips for iPhone — Tricks & Secrets app gives you a blueprint to your device with over 130 tips and tricks. Now that it’s been Socialized, this apps lets you comment and share your
With Socialize, users can already post Comment & Like actions out to Facebook in addition to posting them in the app for other users of the app to see. Users can also set a global preference to always have in-app actions posted out to Facebook. But wait, there’s more! Socialize has just added Twitter authentication
The San Diego Chargers app recently integrated Socialize, enabling Chargers fans to have heated debates within the app, and out to social networks. Here are some screenshots of the app, and the Socialize functionality within it
Socialize is laser focused on creating a viral loop in your app, which we simply call “TheLoop,” to drive app downloads and in-app engagement. Part of that value is propagating social actions taken by your users in your app out to Facebook and other social networks. We’ve recently implemented an important part of this viral
Did you know that Amazon’s Appstore for Android requires that any sharing links within the app that lead to an app download point to the Amazon Appstore and not to any other app download sources? This is an easy requirement to miss, and a hard one to manage across multiple Android marketplaces. Here’s the text from
We’ve been busy, releasing web v0.25.0 less than a week after v0.24.0. For full release notes, scroll to the bottom of this page. (If you hit the “+1″ or “follow” thumbtack on that page, you’ll be alerted when we have a new release). Here’s what’s new in Web Release v0.25.0: We’ve updated our User Scoring
A couple of weeks ago our DIY appmaking platform, AppMakr, was contacted by the one and only Karel (or as some know him, Charles Bouley) of KGO Radio in San Francisco about making an app. He came across an AppMakr mention in USA Today—possibly this one—and thought he’d take a crack at making an app for
Want to know your fortune? Well lucky for you, that doesn’t have to involve a $6.99 per minute phone call or a visit to that part of town that also specializes in therapeutic “massage”. App developer FortuneFlux has swapped out the crystal ball for your trusty Android device with their newly Socialize-enabled app, FortuneReader. Fortunes
Relase v0.24.0 brings with it some stability enhancements, bug fixes and several great new features. Here’s a summary; you can find the full release notes here. Learn more about how your app is performing socially: Custom CSS to make your app download page your own: Here’s a resulting app download page: Ability for users
Packed House at our What’s App Session Sue Ko, AppMakr’s product manager and Socialize CEO Daniel Odio did a panel in front of a 500 person audience over two days at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association’s annual conference in San Diego, CA. The panel was titled “What’s App” and the session description was: “Innovation will
We’re introducing a lot of new Socialize features & functionality in the first half of 2012, and one of the most requested items from Socialize developers is the ability to know more about their users. There are plenty of SDKs that will tell you how many impressions you had last month, but until now it’s
Click to Enlarge — Our Performance Dashboard Socialize is well known for the robust infrastructure of its drop-in social platform, which handles over 20 requests per second — over 1.5 million requests in the past 24 hours across thousands of mobile apps and millions of end users. But how does a team of just ten
Socialize iOS SDK version 1.1.9 is live. Download it here. Here are the release notes: Released: Socialize iOS v1.1.9 [bug] Fix setDelegate warning on _Socialize.h when using ARC [ ] [bug] Paginated view would hit server on scroll of empty view [ ] [bug] Dismiss action bar mail composer would increment view count [
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Copley Designs has done a fantastic job implementing Socialize in its Comic Turtle HD iPad app. The lead developer wrote, “I was amazed at how easy it was to implement. Socialize quickly allowed our users to interact with other users and create a meaningful experience for them. From a developer standpoint this is a necessary feature
Calling all Titanium developers! (Well at least those interested in beta testing) The Socialize + Titanium Action Bar is now in beta for iOS apps. Download the Github repo here. Instructions are below. Please post all issues and feedback on our Titanium support forum. We monitor it religiously. PS – Android devs: We’re not quite
Thanks to the folks at CES and the Department of Homeland Security for inviting me to participate on a panel focused on mobile security titled Tale of the Tablet. The panel focused on hardware, software and social security on mobile devices. If you’re curious about the challenges the enterprise is facing securing mobile devices
Due to Google’s strict no-transfer ticket policy, we won’t be able to do the Google IO contest ticket giveaway like we’d hoped. You can still sign up for the monthly Socialize newsletter, if you’d like: Subscribe to our mailing list
Due to Apple’s strict no-transfer ticket policy, we won’t be able to do the WWDC contest ticket giveaway like we’d hoped. You can still sign up for the monthly Socialize newsletter, if you’d like: Subscribe to our mailing list
Titanium developers have spoken! When we asked you if you’d like to have a Socialize Module built for Titanium, we only asked for 100 responses. Well not even 12 hours later, we’ve blown past that number. So we’re gearing up to give you what you’re asking for! Here’s what we have in place so far:
Online Form – Socialize Titanium
T’was the weeks before Christmas, and all through the land, everyone was rushing to get their updates in users’ hands… At least that’s the app developer’s version. The Christmas season is stressful for many reasons—last minute shopping, an ever-depleting bank account balance, and Aunt Bernice’s detailed analysis of your love life and/or career path. But
An app is an awkward party, where nobody knows each other. But with really good food. Bear with us here. The food is a great distraction to keep people from breaking out of their comfort zone (Hmmm. Small talk OR nervously eat these chocolate-covered pretzels?). But because of this, Lauren never talks to Joe and
The IBEX Droid app is a fantastic 4.5 star app on Android for Spain’s stock exchange (IBEX is to Spain what NYSE is to the USA). The app is running Socialize, which means that users can socialize and comment around individual stocks from within the app, and can give each stock a “thumbs up” or
Sure, staying active is good for you and keeps you healthy and all that good stuff that we like to think is motivation enough in itself. But when it comes to busting your bum at the gym 3 times a week or going for that jog at 6:30 in the morning, sometimes the vague lure
Thanks to Jeffrey Fitzgerald for a great interview with Isaac Mosquera, Socialize’s CTO, about short-cycle SCRUM agile development, knowing how to evaluate certain technologies for a business, and what the future of mobile and social might hold, at the MoDevEast conference last week. Socialize was a sponsor of this conference, along with LivingSocial, Adobe, Millennial
Socialize sponsored the MoDevEast conference at USA Today’s Gannett Headquarters just outside Washington, DC last week. Our CTO Isaac Mosquera was a speaker at the event, which also included speakers from LivingSocial, Millennial Media, NPR and other companies leading in the mobile space. The two-day developer conference gave mobile devs an opportunity to learn about
Drum Kit has implemented the recently released Socialize Action Bar app-wide. Most apps to date have implemented Socialize for specific pieces of content (articles, coupons, recipes, pictures, news, etc.) so users can share that content with each other and across social networks (what we call “entities” in geek terms). However, Drum Kit put Socialize on
Is one of your users abusing the comment system? Now you can ban users, keeping that user from commenting in your app. Just click on any user’s ID in your Socialize Dashboard, and then click “Ban User” Banning a user doesn’t remove his or her previous comments from the app, it just keeps the user
Socialize is excited to announce the release of our full-fledged Action Bar! Why are we so excited? Because we’re well on our way to a new era in app engagement. Now app users can further connect with each other and their friends for a deeper, social experience that’s centered around and within your
Coupon Closet, the premier coupon app for Android with 1,965 reviews and 4.7 stars, has added Socialize just in time for Black Friday shoppers. The Coupon Closet told us, “we pushed out our new fashion coupons app update and we incorporated Socialize 0.7. Looks really nice and fits the app perfectly.” Want to try Socialize
Get ready for Socialize’s new Social Action Bar as we celebrate version 1.0 of our drop-in-simple social platform. We’ve packaged all our social features into an easy to install action bar that any developer can drop into an existing iOS or Android app within 5 minutes. If you’re an HTML5 developer, we have a robust
Socialize is a platinum sponsor for MoDevEast, the largest developer conference on the East Coast, happening at the Gannett/USA Today headquarters in McLean, VA on December 2nd & 3rd, 2011. We have eight free passes to give away — each a $200 to $250 value. Ask for yours below! The conference will include some amazing speakers
Socialize was chosen by CNBC as one of the 15 hottest startups worldwide (slide #5) in its recent Global Entrepreneurship special report. Joining 14 other companies doing everything from online job interviews to helping Congolese farmers, Socialize is in great company. As CNBC puts it: “Innovative Entrepreneurs: The motivation to create new products — and start companies that
It was only 2 weeks ago that Socialize held its last hackathon—but we were itching to get in the game again! Our last project, Interests Graphed, was completed in less than 9 hours. What else could we churn out in a days’ work? Kicking off on Friday at 9:45 am, the team decided on an
When we say you can implement Socialize in as little as 30 (or more specifically, 23) seconds, we’re not just blowing SDK smoke up your bum. Check out how our head dev, Jason Polites, demonstrates just how easy it is to drop the Socialize ActionBar into an app using National Public Radio’s Android app as
by Christine Borden, special to Socialize, Inc. On Monday, 500 entrepreneurs and startup diehards gathered at Hotel Kabuki not to talk failure. This wasn’t your usual self-congratulatory conference of experts–this was FailCon. FailCon is a daylong conference that doesn’t necessarily celebrate failure…but it believes that learning what not to do can be much more relatable.
Last Friday was less TGIF and more CFSWCMHH (code-faster-so-we-can-make-happy-hour) as Socialize held its first ever company hackathon! Our team was busy hacking away from 8:30am until our impromptu project, dubbed “Interests Graphed”, went live at 5:09pm. Interests Graphed is an interactive map that allows developers to cross-section Socialized app user ID’s to reveal similar interests.
Have you heard about the flooding around Bangkok? Champ, our QA champ, hails from Bangkok and recently created a web app called WaterReport to monitor water levels around the city. Different colored circles on the map indicate different water levels, with green as low, yellow in the middle and red as in you’re going to
Here’s crowd-sourcing at its finest: developer Jerry Edfors presents the Police traps & Speed cams Android app. Thanks to warnings from others, users can now expect and see various traffic checkpoints before they blow right past them. The recent version uses Socialize-powered comments to allow users to chat with each other: Police traps & Speed
Next Friday, the entire Socialize crew (yes, even your resident blog bard) will hack from 8 a.m. to roughly 8 p.m. Cue the pizza, Red Bulls, sodas, more pizza and eventually beer! We’ll take the whole day to work on a new idea from start to finish. After all, it’s our very first manifesto point:
Yesterday, Socialize presented at Disruptathon at CTIA Enterprise and Applications among six other distinguished finalists. Socialize rocked it, placing in most of the categories! Champagne showers all around, y’all. Here’s how we stacked up: 2nd for most liked 3rd runner-up for overall winner 3rd in best presentation 3rd in most unique offer Want the full
Here in the User Acquisition department we’re kicking off the SDK campaign: the Socialize Donut Kits™. We’re making the rounds of SF-based mobile startups—and we’re packing yummy donuts—in order to get some great feedback on the Socialize SDK. If you’re hankering for a visit from the donut daemon, let us know here. Initially, we brainstormed
Who has a published author on their team? Socialize does! Niall O’Higgins, Socialize’s MongoDB and Python expert, wrote a book called (surprisingly) MongoDB and Python: Patterns and Processes for the Popular Document-Oriented Database. Published by O’Reilly Media, the book came out just this past month. Congrats, Niall! Here’s a summary of what the book will
To better merge app and web activity, Socialize has considered building a web widget that would display app activity and allow web users to interact with mobile users. A widget could increase app discovery and funnel both web and app activity through the same space. Additionally, a developer could take advantage of Socialize’s intelligence by
On October 12, Socialize will be among several companies presenting at Disruptathon Mobile Enterprise during the CTIA Enterprise and Applications conference. Here’s a little more about the event: So who are the game changers in the mobile enterprise? Which are the sleeping giants, and which are the up-and-comers? What will the next great enterprise mobile
Our engineering team uses both Pivotal Tracker and GitHub extensively to continuously update our SDK. Nick Petrella, one of our devs, wrote a script to connect the two a little more seamlessly. “I finally got sick of always having to go look up the Pivotal ID for the story I am working on when I
Socialize is the mobile intelligence company. What do we mean when we say “mobile intelligence?” Developers with Socialized apps can access the Socialize web dashboard—this is where the magic happens. Who is your most active user? What type of content do your users actually like? What do people share the most? Does your app’s content
Want to collaborate on an Android app? BeMyApp may just be your answer. Registration for the BeMyApp hackathon is free and open to all developers, designers, idea people and other app-savvy enthusiasts who want to create an Android app over the course of a weekend. This edition of BeMyApp is sponsored by Socialize. Socialize has
We recently implemented a Scrum process for our user acquisition team at Socialize. Scrum is project management style often used in engineering teams, but many other teams have successfully adapted it to their non-dev cycles as well. Scrum focuses on value (as in, does this task add value to the company/end user?) and forgoes emphasis
Thinglet Software is the latest batch of developers to jump on the Socialize bandwagon. Remember those whack-a-mole arcade games? Thinglet’s Whack a Buddy app brings that angst-fueled frenzy to your Android phone: Take a picture of your buddy, boss or random stranger and whack away to your hearts content! You can even unlock hidden “Buddies”
This week, Socialize sponsored Disruptathon in Washington, D.C. Its website explains that “the Disruptathon event series is the world’s first ‘open’ innovation contest—a wholly interactive, highly competitive showcase for the most disruptive future thinkers across all industries.” Our CEO Daniel R. Odio dropped by to introduce Socialize to the audience. Check out his presentation below
Our CSO/co-founder/brains supreme Sean Shadmand presented Socialize at the SVC Wireless Innovation Startup Pitch this past weekend. Out of six finalists, Socialize landed in the winners’ circle. Woohoo! Check out what made us winners in the video above
In case you missed Semantic Garage, here’s a video of the evening hosted by Socialize. If you’re a data nerd of any variety, we’d encourage you to check out their meetup group and stop by the next event
On Saturday, our CSO Sean Shadmand will join five other finalists to present at Innovation Startup Pitch hosted by SVC Wireless. The top three winners will receive cash prizes and free legal consultation. With a pool of six finalists, those odds aren’t bad at all. If you’re in town, check out the SVCWM Conference at
Got a quick question about Socialize? Hang out with us on the our GetSocialize.com site, where we recently added a chat function powered by Envolve. Here’s how to make the most of the fireside webside chat: When you click on the tab, you can see who else is using the chat function. The Envolve system
This month’s Mobile Monday Silicon Valley event focused on location-based services. With our intrepid devangelist Jeremia hosting the evening, ten companies demoed their products. Check out the video below for the latest in LBS: Here are the featured demoing companies: Banjo DigitalGlobe reQall Wild Needle, Inc. Ditto Swiit Apps Miir Avego Localmind Locomatix Gigwalk
Get the podcast on iTunes or listen here: This week’s podcast opens with Jeremia’s harrowing account of how he got ticketed while riding his bike, followed by his deft segue into bike technology. Later in the podcast we move to Netflix, Spotfiy, Audible and media discovery. Sorry, no Qwikster opining…yet. Stay tuned for next
Ashok Felix has published another Socialized Android app: Constitution of India. Much like his previous Socialized app, the Constitution app provides the full, searchable text of the Constitution of India. Ashok claims that this is the only app containing the Indian constitution. It will be featured in 100,000 Sakshat Android Tablets as a non-profit e-learning
Last week, our CEO Daniel R. Odio presented Socialize to the folks gathered at the Transmedia Capital event. If you’re interested in learning more about Socialize, check out the video below for his presentation (it’s about 0:00 to 9:40). The rest of the video is as follows: 9:40 – Robert Scoble interview 34:10 – Appmakr’s
Last week, our CEO and devangelist visited with Robert Scoble to talk a bit about what Socialize does. Check out the video below for insight on our company and product
Our resident mad data scientist Alessandro Gagliardi now organizes the Semantic Garage meetup. What is it? Good question! Semantic Garage is at the cutting edge of semantic and natural language processing. It’s where new web companies in the semantic space can showcase live demos and where open discussion and debate about the future and philosophy
The kind folks over at Color Connect highlighted the Socialize SDK and Base 2 Apps’ double win of our $500 prizes to the first iOS and Android Socialized apps. We were thrilled to see both the iOS and Android versions of the StanCoFair app, and we’re even more chuffed to get a shoutout. Here’s what
If you’re a game developer looking to supercharge your user engagement, PlacePlay offers an SDK that integrates local competitions into your mobile game. The SDK creates daily geo-centered tournaments and also supports virtual currency systems. The website claims that devs can increase their user engagement 1.6x. Not too shabby. Check out the video below for
Get the podcast on iTunes or listen here: We know, you cried deep in your heart when we didn’t post a podcast last week. Please enjoy this week’s episode in which I flip out once again, Jeremia and I butt heads over privacy concerns and Patey plays by his own rules. Also, this week
On Thursday, Sept. 15, Mobile Mixer will feature over 20 hot mobile startups at PariSoma. Socialize will be among the many interesting companies demoing at the event, so swing by for a glimpse into new technology and solutions emerging for the mobile space. Tickets are currently $15 and will go up the day of the
A couple of Socialize employees launched the website Let’s Drink Tonight at the TechCrunch hackathon this past weekend. The website allows users to find local drinking partners either from their pool of Facebook friends or from the website’s own userbase. The team included our designer Hunter Hastings and our devangelist Jeremia Kimelman along with Zephyr
The Income Tax Act app from India is the second Android app to go live with the Socialize SDK. The app elucidates the ITA, providing everyone from lawyers to the general public access to the full legal document. It includes an unedited and unabridged version with an organized and neat navigation. Plus, the Socialize integration
No UDID? No problem. Socialize allows you to track your app’s activity without relying on your users’ UDIDs. Apple recently announced the deprecation of UDIDs in iOS5, which means that Apple wants to wean developers off UDIDs because in the future they may no longer exist. Previously, UDIDs allowed developers to track specific users/devices that
Last week, our devangelist Jeremia Kimelman lead a webinar on user engagement for WIP‘s “Back to School” online event. He focused on how to best measure user engagement for mobile apps. Here’s a description of his webinar: “You’ve built an awesome mobile application and finally made it into an app store. The first day you
The Assyrian app is Sargon Benjamin’s third Socialized app, featuring Socialize-powered likes (and unlikes), views and commenting. His app is a great way to learn more about Assyrian history and culture or to reconnect with your own Assyrian roots. The app includes: Assyrian proverbs A “Khigga” icon to get the (dance) party started Quick facts
At Socialize, we map the interest graph. We think the interest graph is a rich, untapped source of data that can power tons of information about people, actions and predictions. Earlier this week, CEO Daniel R. Odio took to his blog to explain the big picture of the interest graph. Socialize aims to bring the
Peter Kazazes’ new app, American Debt Clock, went live in the Apple App Store this week. It’s a topic that makes for (at the very least) lively socializing: “American Debt Clock is a new way to visualize the national debt in real time with up to the second statistics that will make your jaw drop.
And the SDK Speed Challenge winner is…Connor Duggan! Connor swooped in under the radar last night and grabbed the #1 slot with a 0:23 video. Impressive! The winning video: Here’s how the competition stacked up: 0:23 – Connor Duggan 0:28 – David Goemans 0:30 – Connor Duggan 0:40 – Sam Stewart 0:41 – David Goemans
Get the podcast on iTunes or listen here: This week the trio is back to talk privacy, pirates and protests. Somewhere down that road, I lost it a bit in discussing Flash-based sites and Yelp. Here’s hoping my rage is entertaining for all seven podcast listeners. Show notes: 0:00:12 – Intros 0:01:37 – G+
On September 8, Socialize will attend Pitch, an event that brings startups, investors and other interested parties together under one roof. (Or should we say within one diamond?) Lucky for us, the Pitch winds up at AT&T Park, right across from our SOMAcentral office. According to the event page, Pitch aims: To create an affordable
On Saturday, VentureBeat published a contributor article from our very own CTO Isaac Mosquera. In the article, Isaac argues for preemptive measures to tackle privacy concerns in the mobile space. Here’s a snippet: In order to establish best practices in the mobile industry, apps need to disclose. Their users are left in the dark as
School’s back in session! And our devangelist Jeremia Kimelman is at the chalkboard to learn you real good. Hosted by WIP, Jeremia’s talk will focus on why downloads are a poor metric for app developers…and why increasing engagement is a more productive endeavor. Mark your calendars for the webinar and grab a cup of Joe
Thanks to our mad data scientist Alessandro, it is now scientifically proven that Socialize increases app sessions by 21.8 percent. Alessandro crunched some numbers from our AppMakr playground—a sample size of roughly 10,000 apps. He looked at the apps over a 90 day period, comparing non-Socialize builds to Socialize builds. After performing a paired t-test
Brant wrote in last night to share a great story about his wife Jamie. She is new to coding, but that didn’t stop her from pwning with our SDK. Brant taught Jamie how to code the same night as the video posted below. “The Socialize SDK is so easy to build in an app,” Brant
UPDATE (9/2/2011): Thank you everybody for your input, we really appreciate it! We’ve taken it all in and are iterating quickly (M2 – check it out here). We’ve closed the feedback form for now, but we’ll be asking for your feedback again soon! We believe in iteration, testing and feedback! (It’s in our company manifesto,
Get the podcast on iTunes or listen here: Get your Socialize podcast, hot off the presses! This episode, we lost a soldier to a sick day, so it’s just Jeremia and me (Christine) bantering about tech news. Patey was missed, but the podcast is just as entertaining. Show notes: 0:00:12 – Intros 0:00:50 –
OK, so maybe it’s not a real date-date, but there is someone who wants to woo all the lone engineers out there: startups! Next week, Whitetruffle will host a round of speed dating to match up engineers and startups. This sounds like the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Socialize will lend space at our SOMAcentral
Chez Socialize, we have implemented the Scrum process for project management after our VP of Engineering Jason Polites turned us on to it. Sprints usually last about two to four weeks, but in true engineering fashion, we’ve iterated on the process to implement one-week sprints. This week, our CSO Sean Shadmand explained how we work
Nielsen’s Smartphone Analytics recently published some stats on Android app usage—and it’s not a pretty picture for indie developers. As GigaOM puts it: “Android users only spend time on top apps.” The GigaOM article points to a problem common across all mobile platforms: app discoverability. With Android, discoverability can be an especially hard mountain to
Thinking about SXSW 2012 now is like Christmas in July, we know. But Socialize CEO Daniel R. Odio has a chance to speak on a panel, and we want to make that opportunity a reality. Vote now for the Appmageddon panel on the SXSW website! Daniel will speak alongside other heavyweights like Stephen O’Reilly from
On Thursday, August 18, Socialize will host the meetup for the “We Have Tablets” group. Are you obsessed with tablets? Do you enjoy free food and drinks (don’t lie)? Here’s a description of the event from its meetup.com page: Come join us for some food and drinks, hang out, meet other awesome people working in
Get the podcast on iTunes or listen here: Here’s our second podcast episode (technically our fourth—check below for the two we skipped). I watched Jeremia put together our show notes for this one, and either he really enjoys the sound of his own voice or we’re just that legitimately entertaining. Decide for yourself: Another
Last month, mobile consulting firm PointAbout hosted MoBeta, a networking breakfast series focused on the mobile industry. At this event, they featured our Socialize SDK—thanks guys! We’re thrilled to have such evangelist fans. Check out the Socialize mention in the above video around 0:46. Here’s the description of the event: We’ll kick things off with
In a company effort to release open-source projects, our CSO Sean Shadmand showed off the TeamCity monitor he built for the Socialize team. Here’s how it works: Per my last post about the splendor of GAE, below is one example of a tool I built for us at Socialize to keep an eye on code
Today, Torsten wrote about Socialize on the appbackr blog. Appbackr is a a crowdfunding marketplace for mobile apps that helps developers profit from their apps. In particular, he mentions that most apps can already share to Facebook and Twitter, but Socialize also offers in-app social features: it’s definitely interesting to be able to share within
A company named Socialize with a feature called “Likes” makes you think of what blue-wrapped Silicon Valley behemoth? And the sad fact is that in many people’s minds “social” is equivalent to “Facebook.” Your app isn’t “social” unless you have Facebook integration, right? But that’s not really where “social” ends. Social is about more than
Sargon Benjamin has done it again! Earlier, Sargon published the first Socialized Android app, and this week Sargon’s Socialized iOS app went live. Congrats on yet another GIANT $500 check! [Because Sargon won the $500 prizes for both iOS and Android, Socialize will offer $300 to the next Socialized iOS app. Email users@getsocialize.com to claim
On Monday, hundreds of mobile enthusiasts gathered in Mountain View for Mobile Monday‘s panel on HTML5. The crowd was evenly split between developers and marketing professionals, with a few VCs and tech journalists checking out the scene as well. In exploring the oft-touted “write once, run everywhere” description of HTML5, the panel agreed on the
Another weekend, another hackathon…another chance to win some cash from Socialize. This weekend we’re making it rain at the HAPI Hack Weekend in San Francisco. Sign up now (it’s free) to reserve your spot…and your chance to win our $500 plus a bunch of other prizes from fellow startups. Here’s a description of the event:
Get the podcast on iTunes or listen here: Check out the first (and very beta) episode of our Socialize podcast! This one is a couple weeks old, but give ‘er a listen and let us know what you think in the comments. And yes, we’ll even take requests for podcast topics. Here’s the podcast
As a social experiment with mobile currency, Jonathan Stark is letting anyone use his Starbucks card to buy themselves a coffee…or, you know, buy someone else a coffee or two. And for every mention of @Socialize and @JonathansCard on Twitter, we’ll add $1 to the card, up to $5,000 by August 10. We’re hoping a
Chez Socialize, we use 37signals’ project management system Basecamp. It helps us keep on top of all our various endeavors and their related tasks much better than fishing through our email ever did. A while back, we put together a Basecamp bootcamp to help new (and old) employees get the hang of using Basecamp. Every
How predictable are you? Say you view 100 pages a day. And of those pages, you like about 5% of them (and indicate that by pressing a “like” button). Is there some way I can predict which 5 of the next 100 pages you view you will actually like? If I know what your interests
Socialize uses GetSatisfaction to power our customer support and developer community. As company that provides a free and open-source SDK, we believe that our customer relations should also be free and transparent. That’s why we use GetSat. Just today, TechCrunch featured GetSat with news of a $10 million Series B funding. Awesome! Whether it’s $10
Just to show you it’s possible, our CTO Isaac Mosquera recorded himself implementing the Socialize SDK in about 2½ minutes. Too bad Isaac’s not eligible for the $2500 prize we’re offering for the fastest implementation of the SDK. Our current record-holder is Paul Murphy, who clocked in at about 3:25. Can you beat his time?
The SDK Challenge is over—Connor Duggans wins! We are offering a $2,500 cash prize to the developer who can install the Socialize SDK in an iOS or Android app the fastest. If you win and your app is live in an app store by the end of the contest period, we’ll throw in an extra
Down in Mountain View, our devangelist Jeremia Kimelman shared his knowledge at the Muther! of all Hackathons. He participated in a panel called “Taking Your App In the Right Directions: (Standing) Out and Down(loaded).” Here’s the description: How do you make your app outstanding? How do you make your app stand out? Come and learn
Winter Promo: Use coupon code WINTER2011 to waive the $100 fee when registering. Socialize will host free one-on-one developer SDK workshops from Nov. 28 through Dec. 31, 2011. If you’d like to embed the Socialize Social SDK into your existing iOS or Android app, just fill the form out below and we’ll bring you in
The Stanislaus County Fair app is the first live Android app implementing the Socialize SDK! Congrats, Sargon Benjamin! How’s about a giant check? When we officially, publicly launched the Socialize SDK last week, we also announced that the first live Socialized Android and iPhone apps would each get $500 just for being first. Sargon already
This past weekend, our CSO Sean Shadmand spoke at Chicago’s TechWeek about app usage. Here’s the full summary of his topic: What happens after someone downloads your app? Most likely, that user stops opening up your app. User engagement is one of the biggest hurdles in growing your mobile app, but gamification is an approach
Daniel R. Odio, the CEO of Socialize, spoke on the Future of Advertising panel at VentureBeat’s 2011 MobileBeat event. Daniel’s expertise doesn’t lie in advertising per se, but his involvement with Socialize and AppMakr (and previously PointAbout) gives him a unique perspective on how advertising works in the app model. In fact, one of the
Earlier this month, Socialize hosted the Bay Area UseR Group at our SOMAcentral office. The UseR Group meets to discuss the R programming language. For this particular meetup, Paul Murrell talked about support for rendering raster images. Watch the video above, or check out the pics below. If you’re interested in hosting an event at
AlwaysOn recently published its Global 250 Top Private Companies list, including a select group of “ones to watch.” Socialize is proud to announce that AlwaysOn believes we are a company on the verge of something big and that we are “creating a compelling, exciting, high-growth technology marketplace.” We just launched our SDK this week, and
Red light alert! Someone broke a build! Champ points the finger of blame
If you’re a developer, designer or hustler, Register for tonight’s 24 Hour Challenge Hackathon here. Socialize is offering up to $2,000 in prize money for tonight’s 24 Hour Challenge Hackathon at the StartupHouse in San Francisco. We’ll pay the winners on the spot tomorrow night. Socialize will be offering $1,000 in prize money if the
Today’s a big day for us here at Socialize. First and foremost, we officially launched our Socialize SDK to the public! (We just might have to bust out the tequila…again.) In conjunction with our launch, Socialize is offering some shiny prizes. OK, maybe not explicitly shiny, but can you say “no” to cash-money-in-da-bank? We don’t
After months of hard work, we’re proud to announce the public beta debut of the Socialize SDK. You can download it now for iOS or Android. Our engineering team will churn out updates and new features in double-time, so Socialize is only going to get better as the weeks go by. Here’s a copy of
With the Rib Whip of course! To welcome our newest Socializers, we trekked to some delicious BBQ lunch served up by the Rib Whip truck. It’s just our way of saying “welcome to the team—now dig in!” But that’s not all…A handful of Socializers also stepped up to the plate at AT&T Park across the
Socialize has made it all the way to Luxembourg! Well, at least our gear has. Check out Chris Redlitz, partner at Transmedia Capital and enthusiastic Socialize investor, and his crew modeling the latest American threads
Sneakerology, a new iPhone app for sneaker enthusiasts, will launch June 22. The app features: * video reviews on the latest kicks * release dates for much-anticipated sneakers * tutorials on keeping your shoes in tiptop shape * the power of Socialize—the ability to connect with others within the app We’re thrilled to
Earlier this week we mentioned that Socialize would present at Disruptathon Media. And guess what? WE WON. Our CEO Daniel R. Odio presented on behalf of Socialize, and his presentation not only earned us the best overall award but also best presentation. It must have been that lonely cricket! Check out his presentation below: We’re
Earlier this month, I judged the BeMyApp contest, in which teams of developers, designers and innovators make an app in one weekend. There were so many great ideas as well as great execution! It was absolutely amazing what a small team of 3-5 people can do with a weekend and enough caffeine. Below, you’ll find the presentation of
On June 16, Socialize will explain how we’re changing the world of media (specifically the mobile realm) with our social layer for mobile apps. We’re one of eight finalists to land a coveted presentation opportunity. Here’s a description of the event: Welcome to the Disruptathon Media Event where we’ve done the hard work for you.
Both Jason and Leiser (have you met Jason and Leiser?) led app-making workshops at George Mason University this week. Leiser showed her class the ropes on AppMakr’s iOS builder while Jason spearheaded the Android group. Here’s what Jason had to say about his experience: “My class had eight participants total, and most of them were
I’m currently waiting in line with thousands of other participants waiting for the keynote to begin… 9:43 inside, more lines to keynote conference 10:10 – Phil is showing us Lion, features of Lion, multi-touch sensors/gestures, no-need for scroll bars since there is no reason to grab a space bar, improved spaces, full screen apps 10:11
The new Socialize gear is here! Doesn’t our CEO make a great model
Socialize, Inc. CTO Isaac Mosquera will judge at the BeMyApp competition on June 3 to 5. Ready, set, pitch! What exactly is BeMyApp? BeMyApp WeekEnd is a three-day iOS development competition. The event’s goal is to be a platform focused on building successful startups around the next generation mobile applications. Registered idea generators are given 1 minute
It’s official! We’ve changed our company name to Socialize, Inc. (from PointAbout, Inc.) to reflect our targeted focus. As a company, we’ve always focused on communications engines. First there was AppMakr, an easy, do-it-yourself platform for building mobile apps. Next, we launched Socialize, a turn-key social layer for mobile apps made with AppMakr. These products
The Socialize team celebrated a monumental week for the company by heading over to Tres Agaves across the street. We gorged ourselves on margaritas and enough comida to last us through the weekend. Some pictures of our tequila-happy mugs
We’ve partnered with SimpleGeo for Socialize’s upcoming round of location-based functionalities. SimpleGeo will help us carry the burden of location data so that Socialize can continue to upgrade with nifty new features. Location is the next frontier for mobile, and we’re excited to jump into the fray. Check out the official press release from PRWeb
Last month, we featured current app creators who couldn’t contain their excitement for Socialize. So where are they now, and more importantly, is Socialize working magic for them too? Michelle Harjani, our most prodigious young AppMakr, had two apps perfectly suited for Socialize: Top Free Apps and Top Paid Apps, both of which serve as