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Storific Geomium aims to be “Foursquare for real life” Geomium is a new location-based service with grand plans to become the next evolution in personal communication. “With all that Web 2.0 has brought us, Facebook, Twitter, etc, nothing had improved basic social communication over phone calls, emails and SMS”, says co-founder Ben Dowling. ”People today have mobile phones that are permanently connected to the Internet, and location aware. We want to harness this technology to improve communication.” A “Local social community” How will Geomium work? Dowling describes it as a “Local social community that allows you to see what’s happening around you, see what your friends are up to, meet new people and hook up in real life.” Geomium is being pitched as an evolution beyond currently popular geolocation services like Foursquare and Gowalla that offers more useful ‘real life’ functions. It has to be said that there are already plenty of geolocation services that offer these features already. The F-word

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Blog Smartphone - Forum smartphone, toute l'actualité des smartphones 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011 When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011. Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees. Pearltrees makes organising groups of links to content incredibly easy. Recent additions to the service include real-time group collaboration and a touch-screen based interface which will be ported to the iPad soon. Planely The idea behind Planely is a certainly niche one, but the Danish startup could well be onto something that frequent air travellers will love. Geomium LikeOurselves Storific Datasift SuperMarmite Viewdle Screach Shutl

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Articles - The Wikipedia App iFindHotels: Hotel Comparison App with Arabic Support 18 January '11, 01:44pm Follow ydney, Australia based hotel search engine HotelsCombined.com announced today that their iPhone app iFindHotels got Arabic support, making it the first app in the iTunes market to provide regional & international hotel search in Arabic. The release of iFindHotels version 1.31 for iPhone and iPod Touch will allow Arabic speaking users to fully utilize the hotel comparison app which comes in a time where tourism in the Middle East is expected to boom upon the opening of at least 3 massive airports throughout the region within the next 5 years. The registration-free app compares hotel rates from over 30 of the biggest travel and hotel booking websites. Being based in Australia hasn’t prevented the people at HotelsCombined from launching an Arabic version of the website at HotelsCombined.ae in an attempt to fill a gaping hole in the Middle Eastern online travel industry. iFindHotels has some other interesting features as well:

The End of Realtors in the Middle East? Realtors beware, a project that won in round 1 of the 2009 MIT Arab Business Plan Competition Aqarmap.com has launched a platform that enables the buyers/renters to search the market by browsing an interactive map instead of using keywords alone. AqarMap.com which was developed by Samaplus uses advanced mashup technology to empower the users with valuable information. “We use Google Maps for identifying the location, Youtube for the property tour, Twitter and Facebook for sharing the listing in the social web, and a set of other technologies to translate the content and convert numbers and currencies” said Ahmed Abdul Moula, Technology Manager. We tried the site to look for some real-estate to rent, and it takes location to a new level, as when the site couldn’t find me anything in my country of residence, it went as far as showing me other properties in Jordan, KSA and Lebanon. AqarMap.comAqarMap.com uses advanced mashup technology to empower the users with valuable information.

Kynetx – This Changes Everything Aqarmap.com Relaunches: Get’s a Makeover Award winning Aqarmap.com has relaunched with a new interface and some changes based on user feedback in what appears to be some improvements on the platform’s way to do business. In case you don’t remember Aqarmap (read more about them here) is a crowd sourced project utilizing Social Networking and Media tools such as Google Maps for real-estate location, Youtube for property tours and Twitter / Facebook for sharing and listing in the social web. The website has made some improvements on it’s overall usability apparently led by user feedback, one of the most important of those features being listing’s language entry option. This option facilitates a property listing to be entered in a language like Arabic for instance and be automatically translated into English to display to non-Arabic speaking users.

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