Getyourguide.com – An Online Platform To Spice Up Your Vacations With Unique Tours & Activites
When it comes to travel, maybe you are on a vacation or just on a business trip, we are always out to find some adventure, something that is far from the norm, something new. For you to get the best experience from a place, then you need to have everything planned out quite well. It [...]
October 20th, 2011 by Jonas WieselMy Farm – FarmVille in Real Life to Increase Awareness & Knowledge About Food Production
Anyone who has been on FaceBook for a while will know that one of the most successful app-game onthe giant social networking site has been Farmville. But as popular as Farmville has been, the reality today is that many people hardly know where the food they eat comes from. This is especially so when you [...]
June 26th, 2011 by Jonas WieselPix4D – 3D Mapping On The Fly With UAVs, Google Maps Might Get Jealous
UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) equipped with cameras have found broad application in a number of fields both commercial and research. There is though one inherent limitation with the images captured via UAVs – the images are non-continuous and are not 3-dimensional. But all that seems set to change with the Pix4D technology developed by EPFL. [...]
June 25th, 2011 by Jonas WieselSceneTap – The Ultimate Bar App! It Can Inform You on The Male to Female Ratio!
When making the decision to go out most of the time you don’t really know wich bar to choose from. Usually you walkabout try a few places and then settle for the one that is the most lively or maybe the one with the most girls. No days more and more people use Geolocalizing [...]
June 11th, 2011 by Jonas WieselAirbnb / Wimdu / Couchsurfing – Social Travel becomes Viral! Or Was it Already?
In the past, the primary source of accommodation when one embarked on long distance travel was a hotel; outdoors camping or crashing at a friend’s place were the other significant alternatives. But in recent times and thanks to the internet, there has been a drive for alternative, low cost and more culturally connected accommodation. Airbnb.com [...]
June 2nd, 2011 by Jonas WieselGetAround.com – Car Sharing Becomes Social and Everyone Can Benefit!
Car sharing is a concept that has been explored in many different ways. The issue of congestion and the high ration of car per inhabitant keeps on increasing. Most cars are designed to transport 5 people, but most of the time they hardly occupied by more than 2 people. Most concept of car-sharing up to date requires [...]
May 29th, 2011 by Jonas WieselFoodSpotting – Find Good Food and not just Good Restaurants
We Know the popularity of Yelp, Google or TripAdvisor maps when it comes to choosing restaurants on the fly. They are amazing tools and everyone uses them to get a insight on which place they should go try out. The concept is dead simple “get reviews from real people that are always up to date”. [...]
May 21st, 2011 by Jonas WieselHunch Local – Get Real Local Recommendation Tailored Specifically For You
Location based content services are fast becoming the point of focus of new web technologies. FourSquare is probably the most recognisable such service and can in fact be credited with opening up the market to several other niche local services. To a large extent, the phenomenal growth in smart phone sales has also provided impetus [...]
May 9th, 2011 by Jonas WieselGigwalk – Put Your Iphone to Work and Earn Money!
Gigwalk is an iphone application that aims to use the growing “smartphone workforce” in crowd-sourcing effort to complete mini-tasks. Today’s world is very dynamic and everything changes at a very fast pace: Shops, Roads, or services etc…Google and other companies send a lot of money and time to try and map our world but it’s an effort that [...]
May 7th, 2011 by Jonas WieselGetupp.com – Use Social Peer Pressure To Force You To Reach Your Goals
For many people, the dawn of the New Year presents opportunity for new beginnings. This is what drives the practice of New Year’s resolutions. But the statistics are not good – few people manage to sustain the momentum on their resolutions beyond March. Even worse is that this is not a problem bedevilling New Year’s [...]
April 26th, 2011 by Jonas Wiesel
