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Craft breweries depend heavily on word of mouth for most of their business.  Unlike major corporate beer brands, people can only find specific craft beers in a limited numbers of bars, restaurants and retail stores.  Small breweries also do not have the proper resources to put large amounts of money into national advertising campaigns.  Enthusiasts telling others about specific brews and smaller companies is what keeps many of the regional craft beer companies alive.  Cool person in technology Kevin Bradshaw wants to help craft breweries extend their marketing reach and make it easier for craft beer fans to find particular beers they enjoy or discover new ones to try.  Bradshaw’s company Beerdog produces an iPhone application that that has customers take pictures of the beer they are buying. Bradshaw’s app the automatically recognizes the beer’s brand and tags the brand with its location using the smartphone’s GPS.  Users can search for particular brands in their area and see where others have found craft beers they enjoy in nearby bars, restaurants, and stores.  Craft beer fans simply load up the app to see what locations have the brews they want instead of having to ask around awkwardly.  Users who want to download the app should find iPhone IT support if they have trouble.  Read more »

Jump2Spot is a cool product in technology that operates on the idea that every geographic location has a story worth telling.  The team at Jump2Spot wants to share those stories and make them easily accessible to the world with the help of mobile technology.  With the combination of intense research and geotagging technology, Jump2Spot has mapped over 70,000 moments and stories to their location.  Those who want to learn the stories that a place holds can go online or on the Jump2Spot iPhone app and search through a location’s moments.  Moments can be things like groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs, important political happenings, or even something as simple as a major public figure or celebrity visiting a store or a restaurant.  These moments have been tagged to their location digitally either by the Jump2Spot staff or the app’s users.  Read more »