How about an application that gives directions? This should fall under “common”, “uncreative” applications in the market. But what if its an application built for night life? I think that changes things and we now have a creative application. This application called Wertago is a premiere mobile application that was built for people with a nightlife. Wertago provides up to the second information about hot venues, the ability to share content and influence the social scene, be able to coordinate plans with friends and connect with socialites across the city. The review, ratings, tags and reviews are all done in real-time and could help you maximize your night activities.

I can recall that everytime I go to the United States for a business trip, I have barely enough time to see and enjoy various places at night and I end up going to restaurants or bar within my sight. Applications like Wertago should ease up the research workload for people like me.

Other features of this applications are as follows:

1. You can see where and check out where your friends are

2. You can browse profiles, personalize your own and you can meet new people

3. You can send messages to people

4. Coordinate meetup is easy with its features

5. Be able to say hello to someone you want to meet

In summary this is a full blown social networking site that resides on your mobile and only target people who are going out at night. If you are the party goer and would like to make your nightlife less tedious on planning and coordination, Wertago is right for you.

The supported mobile devices includes Google phones, iPhones and other web-enabled smartphones.

As an added information about this product, Wertago is the grand prize winner for Google’s Android developer challenge.

You can view from information from the official Wertago site – Wertago.

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Get Night Guidance via Wertago

Now you can with Start Pokens Poken Pulse device. The Poken Pulses are little USB devices that let owners exchange their contact information with each other by touching the “hands” on each person’s Poken Pulse device.

When you get home or back to the office you just plug-in the Poken Pulse into your computer and add the contact information for those individuals and their accounts on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut, Flickr, Ning, Google Talk, Skype and more.

The Start Poken devices support vCard contact information exchange for use in Microsoft Outlook and other email and contact management programs.

This integration of exchanging information and networking in the real world and tying it to individuals online personas is a great service.

I see the benefits of using the Poken Pulse in business is a huge opportunity. For this reason they should really have more business styles Poken devices available. All of them I’ve seen on their website are more designed for kids or teen use. The only thing I saw was the ability to custom create your own Pokens with your corporate logo. They should really have some simple, just USB key looking options. Having this functionality available to use at conferences and trade shows would be terrific for both vendors and attendees. Being able to quickly share your contact info at each booth and then organize all those contacts when you get back to the office after the conference would be tremendous.

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Exchange Contact Info in the Real World with Poken Pulse

The basics of the site are a place and a service for you to share videos and photos with others whether it be on the Radar.net site, twitter, Facebook, flickr or your own blog. All the features you’d expect are here and then some.

I’ve normally been a fan of TwitPic to share photos on twitter, but since they’re still not taking advantage of the Oauth functionality, I haven’t been using them as much. I still haven’t gotten Facebook to allow me to post images from my phone yet for some reason either, so I’m hoping this service will kill these two birds (well, one bird and one face) with one stone.

Sign-up for an account on Radar, link your twitter, Facebook and flickr accounts and you’re ready to roll. You’ll get a private Radar email address to use to send images to when you want to share them. There’s also a mobile app you can download to make it even easier to send images from your phone while you’re on the go.

When you make an update to Radar, you can decide whether or not to include the update to your twitter or Facebook feeds as well. Very nice and very easy to get going on.

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Using Radar to Share Photos and Video

The post goes on to argue that people who spend time on Facebook has lower GPAs than their classmates who are not members of Facebook.

The post suggest ways to combat the time wasted on social networks like Tracking your time online, remembering the the telephone, etc.

Go ahead and read the suggestions here — Managing Your Social Network Addiction.

Image from — Managing Your Social Network Addiction.

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Ways to Combat Your Computer Addiction

Division I and II coaches are allowed to contact recruits one-on-one using direct messaging services on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking websites. These types of messages are considered emails, which are permissable according to NCAA rules. Coaches can’t instant message or chat with recruits, but social networking opens new doors.

While public messages (such as posting on a Facebook wall) isn’t allowed, direct messages are often programmed to be sent directly to cell phones. The students have control over it, but if they set up their profile to have messages sent to their phones, it is almost like getting a text message from the coach.

Twitter has also been extremely helpful for coaches, who can update with general announcements frequently. By following recruits on Twitter, they can also get a sense of the student, learning how to better appeal to them.

Many coaches aren’t yet using Twitter, but on the other hand, some have embraced it. Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin uses Twitter because, essentially, other schools are using it. Illinois coach Ron Zook is pleased with the NCAA’s decision that Twittering is allowed. Of course, Pete Carroll is all over it, and has been from the start.

I think we’ll see more and more coaches joining the Twitter train, but the real question is this: will the NCAA further restrict using this technology?

Image via Twitter.com.

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Coaches Get around Text Rules with Twitter

But when I read Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s take on things, I began to understand his point-of-view. He says, “There’s tons of imposters out there. I don’t have a MySpace, a Twitter or none of that (stuff). There’s a bunch of imposters out there though that you have to beware of. I really would never get into social networking.”

I guess I can understand that. Then again, I think that’s only a problem if you don’t work the site regularly. I know celebs like Ashton Kutcher and John Mayer connect with people via Twitter. What do you think? Would you enjoy interacting with some of your favorite sports figures online?

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Dale Earnhardt Shuns Twitter

Instead of opening the several networking apps in several browser windows, EventBox packs it all for you in one neat interface. You just have one app open and it retrieves your data for you.

A great idea but the app is still in beta and there are some kinks that need to be worked out. I had a little trouble authenticating my Facebook account. But it seems to be working now.

One of the things I’m not so hot about right now is that there’s no slideshow feature for the pictures I’m viewing. Especially Flickr. You can scroll to the photos but there’s no automatic way to play them all. You also can’t view the bigger versions without it opening a browser window for you.

Right now as a beta release this is ok with room for improvement but so far I don’t see myself paying $20 ($15 during the beta period) for this.

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App Of The Week: EventBox