By: Co-Editor, RB:

With every new innovation in technology, software or applications, comes a charge of startups trying to monetize the innovations or find new interesting uses or applications.

SocialJitney.com, a startup located in Fremont, California, is an iPhone/Android Application Development Company that offers custom iPhone/Android applications. In other words, you can hire professional iPhone/Android app developers who develop applications as per requirement for clients.

Social Jitney provides a complete and integrated process for developing commercial iPhone, Android and iPod touch native applications using the iPhone SDK.

With over 150 experts from around the globe specializing in diverse fields, the company has accumulated over 500 social media applications in its portfolio

Whether you are looking to build a customized application for yourself or are interested in taking existing live applications and tweaking them yourself, SocialJitney may be the right solution. They offer several packages which range from buying off-the-shelf applications and replacing the content / design with your own, or purchasing the entire source code of these applications to play with, learn from and tweak at your own leisure using your own team of developers.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:

As people use of the Internet becomes more sophisticate, one thing seems clear, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. People seem to respond better to video than almost any other tool on the Internet.

Another example of this would be VideoMD.com.

VideoMD.com is a video-sharing site for physicians and health practitioners to help them educate their patients better. The Miami based company also has a featured video library for general web searches for health information. Based in Miami, Florida, the site also allows patients/people to create communities in the video blogging section.

While there are other excellent comprehensive medical information sites such as WebMD.com or the Mayo Clinic website (http://www.mayoclinic.com/). The site is based on the premise that video is the best resource to help people understand medical issues.

The video content on the site comes from not just physicians but health care providers. For example, the video featured below is also on the Johnson and Johnson Health Channel on YouTube.com.

VideoMD was created by physicians, for physicians and their patients. As stated, the mission is to strengthen the relationship between doctors and their patients. Not only will patients be more satisfied by having their own doctor educate them about their ailment, physicians can better educate patients without adding more work to an already busy schedule. Whether a physician just wants to introduce patients to their practice or discuss the most complex procedures, VideoMD provides a forum which is tailored for each and every doctor and patient. VideoMD proves that with modern video capabilities on the Internet, combined with an array of search-able content features, video is the best resource to give patients information that they need in an easy and understandable format.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Andy Warhol, one of the pioneers of the so-called pop art movement, was certainly an American original. If you ever get a chance to visit the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you should go, it is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

In any event, besides the famed Campbell Soup Cans , Warhol is most known for the phrase: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

Uttered in 1968 by Warhol the term has been shortened in common use to “15 minutes of fame.” The expression refers to the fleeting condition of celebrity that grabs onto an object of media attention, and then passes to some new object as soon as people’s attention spans wane. With YouTube, Paris Hilton and Reality Television this phrase seems more prescient than ever.

A new site called 15tofame.com, launched in alpha just before the new year and based in Italy, seeks to fulfill Warhol’s prophesy to an even greater degree.

15tofame allows users to have a video shown continuously for 15 minutes that they have chosen in an effort to be famous. During those 15 minutes everybody all over the world on the site sees the same video simultaneously. After that another user gets their 15 minutes of fame. Any video that YouTube deems appropriate can be posted.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

In this country, we devour celebrity culture. More people could name Brad Pitt’s and Angelina Jolie’s kids’ names than could name the vice presidential candidates during last year’s election. Websites and television shows devoted to such things as the latest shenanigans of Lindsay Lohan are everywhere. So it would appear that the technology offered by Junkflash.com would be attractive to the multitudes that follow celebrities like I follow the stock market.

Junkflash is a new way to access celebrity news. The Junkflash browser add-in recognizes and tags up celebrities you come across while browsing. When you point at a celebrity name a sidebar appears showing the latest published headlines about that person. These are aggregated from the feeds of 50 top celebrity news sites.

Junkflash users do not have to search sites or clear out feeds to find gossip for which they have an interested. Junkflash brings relevant celebrity news to the context of your browsing. When you shop online for movies or music, or watch clips on YouTube or read a movie review and a celebrity is mentioned, Junkflash shows you the latest gossip about that person right there and then.

Another neat feature is that when you are already at a celebrity news site, Junkflash lets you see other sites angle on a story, or more recent developments.

Junkflash is a privately funded startup developed and run by a small team in Stockholm, Sweden. Open beta of the Junkflash Internet Explorer add-in was released October 2009.
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