Pocketlife, a mobile social networking app that we’ve covered a few times here at TNA, has been named as one of the winners of the “Apps on Maps” Category in Nokia’s Calling All Innovators awards.
The award sees the Aussie/NZ development team sharing in more than $250,000 in prizes.
Over 1,700 submissions for the awards (which included 3 other categories) were received from developers in 85 countries signaling a strong answer to Nokia’s challenge to think big and create mobile applications and services that can help build a better mobile user experience.
Purnima Kochikar, vice president, Forum Nokia Developer Community, Nokia, had this to say about the Award process:
“The quantity and quality of the applications we received are astounding,”
“We encourage our developer community to work with us to extend their market reach, taking advantage of our global presence, global distribution through Ovi Store and local market knowledge. Turning the spotlight on our developers in marketing efforts like Calling All Innovators is just one way we can expose the best mobile applications from our developer community to consumers around the world.”
Below are some exlusive screenshots of Pocketlife running on the Nokia N97
Congratulations guys! It’s really good to see local technology being recognised as world-leading.
Regator, the Atlanta, Georgia-based startup founded by 2 aussies, Scott Lockhart and Kimberley Turner, has finally launched an iPhone App - and it’s pretty impressive.
In their own words, Regator is “a website that gathers the world’s best blog posts and organizes them in a way that makes it easy to find the things you need—and fun to discover the things you never knew you wanted. It’s here to help you find, discuss, share, rate, and organize information on the topics you care about. ”
Now with the iPhone App you can easily do this anywhere/anytime.
Features include:
Browse posts from over 500 topics as diverse as beekeeping, geology, indie music, pop culture, job hunting, or basketball.
Search Regator’s extensive archive, returning results that users have described as being consistently more relevant and higher quality than those returned by Google Blog Search.
View the most popular blog posts across the blogosphere or in your favorite topic.
See trends to get an up-to-the-minute, spam-free look at exactly what bloggers in any niche are writing about right now.
Keep up with the newest blog posts, updated every few seconds.
Read the full text of posts on the original source blog.
Share posts via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
Find more information on a story with Regator’s related posts feature.
Check out the video below to see what the app looks like in action and check out Regator iPhone page to download the App and read the praise this Aussie startup is getting from all over the net.
