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While weddings ought to be an exciting time of celebration full of some of the best memories of those involved, but planning for one can be extremely stressful and difficult.  OneWed exists as a new kind of digital media that its creators call a marriage of brilliant content with innovative software. While our media perpetuates a cycle of hype around weddings and false images of perfect ones, this image is not always true to life.  There are plenty of websites dedicated to preparing and providing information for those planning weddings, but very few provide innovative technology to help in the process despite the fact that technology and social media have become integral to how we communicate, live, and plan.  OneWed offers a variety of services to aid couples with their wedding plans. Read more »

When you seek to host an event, however large or small, the number of possible venues in any given city can be an exhausting list to sift through.  There are numerous considerations you must make when considering where you want to meet, and the work involved with sorting out the list and choosing the perfect one can be extremely time-consuming.  eVenues is what its creators call a marketplace for meeting and event space. The buying and selling of space operates in the same way as any consumer good, and there are many factors that determine what works for your particular needs and what does not.  eVenues is an app that serves to sort through all the difficult legwork to help you find the right venue for your event. Read more »

With all of the websites we can visit to find deals from retailers online, there seems to be very little innovation left to make any one better than another.  Patroneer is, offering an array of unique services that set is apart from typical websites offering discounted merchandise from major brands.  The app’s creators call it your deal scout, and it does a few things differently than users might expect.  With all of the email lists, subscription services, and websites with hundreds of pages of individual items to browse, the key with Patroneer is organization, de-cluttering, and consolidation. Read more »

While it is easy to see the work done by famous artists or to connect with large companies, smaller local artists and vendors simply do not have the resources and connections to maintain such a large public presence.  ZIIBRA is an app that allows them to connect much more easily with potential customers as well as providing a platform for users to discover them more effectively and thoroughly. It is a place online to meet artisans and creators to discover their creative works.  ZIIBRA lets you explore artists and makers from around the world so that, in its developers’ words, you can get closer to the people behind the art, products, and experiences you love.  It lets you browse a variety of categories to satisfy a broad range of interests including music, food, handcraft, and a lot more. Read more »

Building, maintaining and growing a successful sports organization or club is an ongoing and often challenging effort, and while most keep pace using modern technology, not many products exist focused solely on this challenge.  Korrio is a cloud-based service for organizing youth sports designed, in the developers’ words, to unify and amplify the sports life of every athlete. According to its creators, Korrio provides the tools required to get players on the field as well as an online environment for staff, families and fans to share and build community. The app offers clubs, teams, families, and fans the ability to stay informed and connected through one integrated and safe solution. Read more »

For all of the social media that we engage in daily, there is very little that tailors directly to families while allowing the privacy we need in a potentially dangerous online environment.  Along with the dangers that can come with browsing the Internet, it can be challenging to keep family coordinated and emotionally connected.  Squarehub is an app that, in its developers’ words, is the private social network designed exclusively for your family. The development of technology brings with it unique new problems as well as solutions, and Squarehub looks to solve these problems.  While social media offers us myriad new ways to branch out and connect to people we may not otherwise meet, the lack of privacy can become increasingly worrisome. It can also be difficult and complicated to gather family information through multiple emails, text messages, and social media accounts.  Meanwhile, teenagers desire more freedom while parents are concerned about their safety, and they do not always understand online etiquette.  Along with all these things, communication between family members can significantly diminish between all of the online chatter and busyness.  Squarehub offers an innovative solution to deal with all these dilemmas. Read more »

As one of the most important elements of working toward improving our future, some organizations are putting a great deal of effort into implementing technological advancements in education.  While technology has improved the admissions process by making it faster, easier and more efficient to conduct online, we have taken very few steps beyond the basics.  Ravenna’s developers claim that their app is transforming K-12 admissions for private schools by implementing a fully paperless process for every step from the very first inquiry to the final decision.   Parents looking for private, higher quality schooling for their children and administrators of these schools often face the most difficulty in the process.  This is due to higher standards and the submission of many more applications than a school is able to accept.  A great deal of review also needs to go into every one.  Ravenna looks to address this issue in a number of ways in order to improve the admissions process altogether. Read more »

There are many apps and products dealing with company to consumer business interactions, but relatively few dedicated to aiming technology toward enabling local organizations to team together in joining the online marketplace.  Deal Co-op’s creators advertise “group buying and daily deals made easy,” based on their belief that, in their words, anyone with an online audience can generate sustainable profit by creating their own deal store.  Deal Co-op is a software platform built specifically for group buying, which is a business practice in which a company offers products and services at significantly reduced prices on the condition that a minimum number of buyers purchase them.  While the general concept is the basis for many online special discount programs, Deal Co-op’s designers aim to make the process much simpler, faster, and more effective to implement. Read more »

While one of the most applied uses of technology involves how we communicate, we can still make many more applications to increase the overall efficiency of its application.  Gibberin’s designers created it based on the principle that communicating vocally is faster, easier and more accurate than using the text-based services that are so common.  They believe, in their words, that it is time to shift away from existing text based messaging back to our natural form of communication, our voice.  Gibberin delivers your message in its original spoken form without involving the process of transcribing text.  Recipients of your messages hear the emotion, inflection, pace and other natural queues that are important to meaningful communication and do not carry over in text. Read more »

As far as we have come technologically, there are some aspects of everyday life in which we could still put the progress we have made to more thorough use.  One of these is public parking, particularly as it relates to those who operate civic or workplace parking facilities. Parkio’s developers saw a need to apply better solutions to maximizing parking space while allowing more income for those who own and control it, creating their app to fix a few difficulties that technology could serve to improve. Firstly, space is a valuable resource because of its scarcity, particularly in certain urban areas, and few organizations get any real value from owning and operating this space.  Secondly, many companies, especially retailers, are spending large sums of money for parking, increasing the costs of the goods they sell in order to make up for it.  Finally, transportation initiatives being implemented focus on moving vehicles rather than making the best use out of the limited space available. Read more »