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You can put RSS into your app (text, images, podcasts, audio, video) as well as GeoRSS and MediaRSS feeds. You can also put HTML into your app, which is served locally from the phone and can access the phone’s camera, accelerometer and much more. Your options are limitless, and you can make great apps this way.
Get Into The Action
From ReadWriteMobile channel:
The team at Socialize has released a new action bar that centralizes the user interface of its mobile engagement platform. Developers can now drop the Socialize SDK into their app and create an bar where users can interact within the app through Facebook, email, text and Twitter and also use in-app commenting.
The new action bar can either be a stand-alone feature within an app or developers can strip the UI from the bar itself and just place the functionality of the action bar within an app. As the Socialize SDK is open source, developers can add the social engagement layer that the startup provides in whatever way they want. This is a significant step for the startup but the team has more up its sleeves coming soon.
Socialize is a 10-person startup based out of San Francisco that grew out of a consulting and development firm that CEO Daniel Odio and partners sold to boostrap AppMakr, the beta channel for Socialize products and kind of parent company. Socialize has doubled its end users from 45,000 or so to 95,000 in the last 30 days and the beta channel has a significant presence with more than 3.7 million end users. Socialize has raised $1 million in angel funding and has been focusing on building its core product and revenue sources before taking any more money.
The action bar is a good step for Socialize as it gives developers and users a more tangible UI to use that will in turn generate data that developers can act upon. Socialize has 25 million activity records on file and growing quickly between the apps that 2,000 developers have created after downloading the SDK.
What Socialize did not announce in its blog post today but is coming down the road soon is an activity bar to match the action bar. The activity bar acts as the in-app notification system of what users have been commenting on, liking and sharing on Facebook and Twitter. The activity unit rests above the action bar and can be seen in the image below.
Socialize has worked with several large organizations to create engagement layers within apps for particular example surrounds the San Diego Chargers, a National Football League franchise that used Socialize to engage the fan base. Charger fans now have a dedicated mobile social network that can be tied to a community, a location or and event (like a home game) through the app. Predictably, it seems that fans are using to call for the ousting of the coach.
Developing a social community can be a great avenue of growth for startup application makers trying to gain users and traffic. It is a cheap way to acquire users outside of paid acquisition channels and keeps users coming back to app. Social layers also create data that developers can act upon to make changes to their apps based on user behavior and community feedback.
Developers – what tangible benefits do you see in adding a social layer to your apps? Let us know in the comments.
Socialize Picked by CNBC as One of 15 Hottest Startups
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Socialize was chosen by CNBC as one of the 15 hottest startups worldwide (slide #5) in its recent Global Entrepreneurship special report. |
Joining 14 other companies doing everything from online job interviews to helping Congolese farmers, Socialize is in great company. As CNBC puts it:
“Innovative Entrepreneurs: The motivation to create new products — and start companies that will make those products — come from a variety of places. Some entrepreneurs are interested in making processes more efficient. Some are looking for ways to save people money. Some are hoping they can save the world. Whatever the motivation, entrepreneurs inspire with their creative way of taking a problem and finding a solution.”
Writing that Socialize makes an app “social, not solitary”, they highlight that Socialize brings users back to the app while traditional apps see a 99% engagement decline just 90 days after the app is downloaded. And while they note that 1,400 apps are currently Socialized and 4,000 apps have been made withAppMakr, those numbers are actually much higher! There are over 2,000 apps live with Socialize and 10,000 AppMakr apps in the marketplace.
Check out the article here to see Socialize and 14 other startups that are sparking change in their industry.
Socialize voted Winner at Disruptathon Media
Socialize Disruptathon Presentation from Daniel R. Odio on Vimeo.
Socialize Your App
Recently AppMakr launched a new feature: Socialize. This new introduction could be a game changer, bringing social back into mobile. Socialize adds a social overlay to the existing app-making framework. It outfits creators with a set of tools so they can understand and connect with their app users. Think of it this way: within each and every app, there’s a community of users. Those users have never been able to socialize with each other—it’s as if everyone is in a big room but the lights are off. The Socialize platform ‘turns the lights on’ in each mobile app and lets its community of passionate users rally around the core content of each app. The Interest Graph they’re creating around each app has the potential power of the Social Graph you know and love from Facebook. The Socialize layer will automatically be built into every new app made using AppMakr. They launched with over 150 apps using the Socialize functionality.
Socialize is initially being launched into every app made by AppMakr as a showcase, and then turned loose on the world for any developer to put into their apps. They offer a ‘honey pot’ to the developer by raising their apps’ engagement levels and ad monetization (CPM) rates, as well as to end users by unleashing the community hiding in the app, owning the ‘beehive’ of data created by each app running Socialize.
Update:
Socialize is running in 242 apps since its launch 2 weeks ago. Over 4,000 user generated comments and 9,000 article likes since launch. They are seeing a 54% increase in app sessions for apps running Socialize. A video of Socialize in action at http://go.AppMakr.com/introducing-socialize
You can see Socialize in action at http://go.AppMakr.com/introducing-socialize and lots of customer stories at http://blog.appmakr.com/category/company-news/socialize/