Looking for parking can be not only a hassle but a frustration that can sometimes lead to aggressive behavior, confusion and arguments. Parking in Motion, or PIM, is a smarter way to park – by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information with 500+ cities in the US, Canada and Europe. With PIM, you will be able to navigate through various parking locations in relation to your geo-location and take the pain out of wondering where to park.
Those that start nonprofits are passionate about their cause and goals, but may not be technologically savvy enough or not as dedicated to put forth a web presence that is as powerful as their mission. Bellstrike is a web platform opportunity for nonprofits to create and use web design with technology to ascertain funding so nonprofit creators can focus more energy on achieving their mission, instead of being frustrated by the realms that are of less interest to them.
With so many different accounts (email, social networks, business management tools, etc.) it can be difficult to maintain and find what you need quickly. Did you send a message via Gmail or was what you sent through a Tweet? Those are the distractions and confusions that can happen day-to-day. You could search each individual account and try to find what you need, but while some applications have amazing search features, others fail to find what you’re looking for. Greplin “is a personal search engine that allows you to search all your online data in one easy place.”
ViewRL aggregates the URL’s posted on your Twitter feed into a simple to view visual grid output that makes it easier to preview what you are about to click. ViewRL shows all videos, music, photographs and links that have been tweeted by others and provides a preview thumbnail to help you comprehend the tweet in a non-textual format.
If you have ever looked for a place to live online you know the headaches and lack of UI consideration that these platforms have had in place for years. Yet we continue to use them because there aren’t many solid alternatives. Mapitat on the other-hand, created by Toronto’s Playground, is the easiest way to search for rental property.
Don’t Fear the Internet is a place to go through a series of video based web tutorials for those that want to learn web design but are afraid of (what can be) evil HTML, CSS and PHP syntax. For any new budding designer, these languages can offer a steep learning curve and frustrations comparable to learning any real-world language. But now, two graphic designers (Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer) are releasing a series of videos that go through the motions of basic web design without having to become a full-blown web designer.
Developed during last week’s hackday.tv, a 24 hour video hackday, Casey Pugh started the Music Video Genome: aiming to be Te Pandora of Music Videos. Powered by VHX, users search for any artist in any genre and the platform generates a personalized music video channel structured around the user’s selection.
Remember those childhood build your own adventure stories that we took part in during reading time? Well how does that rebuild itself with today’s technologies? The Infinite Adventure Machine is a truly imaginative technological advancement that lets your own ideas work with computation to develop a truly unique fairy-tale plot on the spot.
We recently covered startup Two of Us, a social platform that lets you send a smile to a stranger and receive one back-which would hopefully make those involved a bit more cheerful. Now we wanted to share how a juice company is trying to make you smile and encourage brand awareness. Israeli juice company Prigat along with advertising firm Publicis Israel has launched an interactive billboard campaign involving “Smile Stations”.
This London-based startup has recently launched a social networking app that makes photo collaboration an easy experience. With a slick and light weight UI, Eeve is doing what Color failed at: making it possible to take photos and share them with others in close proximity with simplicity, ease of use and an outstanding user experience.