Demo Night is one of the most popular events in the Mobile Monday London calendar. Lots of new ideas all at once!
LangAR
Peter O’Shaunessy (@poshaunessy)) & Rene Bastijans (@renebastijans)
- Work for Pearson Future Technologies team
- developed with BBC Active & DK + wikitude
- AR tourist guide with audio phrases
- available on Google Play and the App Store
- uses wikitude’s beta AR engine
- chose it because you get to write the app using web technologies (so two apps for free)
- would envisage the real app having embedded data
LocalSocial
Sean O’Sullivan @sos100
- “offers, points and more that only unlock in-store”
- proximity nerds (bluetooth, zigbee, NFC, etc)
- actions: near, tap, scan
- reactions
- shopkick pioneered the format
- collect points just for going in the venue
- provide retailers with a beacon
- “we like NFC for all the things that aren’t payment”
Go my Life
Michael Mulquin, IS Communications
Try it out on http://www.gomylife.eu
- online social networking platform tailor made for the over-60s
- older people more concerned about privacy
- cautious about posting as they’re not sure who will see it
- like things to be step by step
- “facebook without the confusion”
- but can post to facebook
- come out of a European project: http://gomylife-project.eu
- have a group of people in UK and Poland trying it out
six3 video messenger
http://angel.co/six3 http://six3.tv
- asynchronous video messaging
- either need the app or use it on the web
- can send a message to someone’s email address
- at the moment, it streams video but they plan to cache locally in the future
- all messages are private
ko-su
- lesson/activity creator
- creates mobile-friendly content from a clean HTML interface
- quizzes, videos
- can share content to people via an iOS app, mobile web, or mobile emulator on the website
- subscription model with a transaction fee
movellas
- free self-publishing platform for readers and writers
- mainly for younger people
- social story-telling
- had 280,000 comments since launch
- very engaged audience
- featured as New & Noteworthy in the app store
- app can send comments
- website can create content
- “we aren’t monetising at the moment”…
android enigma simulator
Franklin Heath Ltd @heathcr
- very pretty enigma simulator
- looks especially good on an Android Tablet
- also collecting donations for Bletchley Park
- spent a lot of time getting to work on all Android devices & versions
- can send messages to friends via Android sharing intent
one man MVNO
impossible telecom @danlane
- early adopters wanted: http://alpha.impossible-tele.com
- a new kind of MVNO focussing on:
- innovation
- customer service
- transparency
- sharing bundles of texts, minutes, data between devices
- 3rd party APIs for core of network
- divorcing devices and numbers
- one number on multiple devices
- multiple numbers on single device
- static IP addresses for M2M SIMs
Dtouch mobile
Shakir Ali, IntelliDzine
Horizon Institute, University of Nottingham
- Dtouch marker: http://d-touch.org
- black borders with white children and so on
- https://github.com/horizon-institute.com/tableware
- like QR codes but visually recognisable
Tone push
- “your ringtone on someone else’s phone”
- web and app based
- currently Android-only, but would work on iOS too
- if the other person has the app, then this app/website will set the other person’s custom ringtone for you
sooqini
Raj Singh, raj@sooqini.com
- “Your trusted mobile marketplace”
- reverse market place: buyer does the posting, not the seller
- initially focussed on students and housewives — 2,500 sellers in system already
- created a “Campus CEO” system to drive adoption
- iOS first: “people who have iPhones think they’re cool and want other people to do things for them”
- going for Android later
- have PayPal payment at the moment; planning to add bank account connection later
qrpedia
- demo’ed at last year’s Mobile Monday London
- more and more museums and galleries signing up
