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I've been playing with the hyped-up Booyah Society app for about a week or so now, and I don't think my reaction is too singular: it's not all that great. The idea is certainly a good one: take your real-life achievements and turn them into a game, complete with points and an avatar, but in practice, it's not quite there yet. Achievements are honor-based, which means you can make as many or as few points as you want just by punching anything in, and while the avatar is pretty nifty, it doesn't seem like there's that much to do with the little guy besides spin him around until he gets sick. That's not to say that the potential isn't still there -- the app's "Booyah" recommendations can give you some interesting things to do if you need them, and if they ever get the app using some actual iPhone mechanics (how Read More

Nachrichten-Portal Heise.de bietet seinen Lesern zwar keinen RSS-Feed mit Volltext, wirft am heutigen Montag jedoch eine werbefinanzierte iPhone-Anwendung (kostenlos; App Store-Link) auf den Markt. (Danke, Jester!) Apropos Nachrichten-Anwendung: Focus Online (kostenlos; App Store-Link) mit Push-Funktionalität, guter Übersichtlichkeit und eingebundenen Videos, finde ich sehr ansprechend. Das münchner iPhoneDevCamp vom letztem Samstag schien ein unterhaltsamer Erfolg. Bislang findet sich lediglich eine Videoaufzeichnung der Veranstaltung über UStream. Weitere Filmaufnahmen und Foliensätze sollen folgen. Vom großen Bruder, dem iPhoneDevCamp 3, das zur gleichen Zeit im Yahoo US-Headquarter veranstaltet wurde, tröpfelte eine iFund-Präsentation ins Internet. Der iFund ist ein 100 Millionen-starker Geldtopf, mit dem das ‘Venture Capital’-Unternehmen Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Zusammenarbeit mit Apple Risikokapital an Entwickler(-studios) vergibt. Chi-Hua Chien berichtet über den erfolgreichen Stand der App Store-Entwicklung und dessen Finanzierung. Während Ngmoco die Finanzspritze in einige gute Projekte versenkte, ziehen düstere Wolken über den anderen Teilnehmer auf. Beispiel gefällig? BooYah! (kostenlos; App Store-Link), Read More

Today's iPhone app reviews include Medscape, Jeopardy, Chess Wars, and Booyah Society. Medscape is an incredible free medical resource for healthcare professionals and inquisitive patients. Jeopardy is, well, Jeopardy. Chess Wars is by far the best chess game in the iPhone, allowing you to play with your Facebook friends. Booyah Society allows competitive people (you know, the type who yell "Booyah" after every minor success) to earn points for every daily activity. Medscape by WebMD Category: Medical Price: Free Medscape is a new iPhone app made by the famous online medical resource WebMD. The app provides comprehensive drug information, clinical reference tools, medical news, and continued medical education. This application targets physicians, pharmacists, medical/pharmacy students, smart patients, and medical enthusiasts. The best feature of the app (for the non-healthcare-professional) is the extensive directory of physicians, hospitals, and pharmacies. There are tons more features, just check it out in iTunes. Remember, you Read More

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28 Jul 2009 alle 03:03 Uncategorized Voto Utenti: [ratings] Booyah, una società composta da due veterani della Blizzard Entertainment, ha rilasciato in AppStore un nuovo social network in 3D chiamato . Questo applicativo è il primo social-game basato sugli avvenimenti reali della nostra vita e giocando potremo sbloccare vari avatar da poter abbinare al tuo personaggio. La prima volta che vi parlammo di quest’applicazione, risale a diversi mesi fa, poichè risulta uno dei pochi servizi sovvenzionati dall’iFund di Apple, grazie al quale gli sviluppatori hanno ricevuto ben 4,5 milioni di dollari. Possiamo condividere tutto quello che facciamo su Booyah e allo stesso tempo leggere quello che stanno facendo i nostri amici. Questo gioco, a sommi capi, ripropone ciò che succede su Facebook e Twitter ma, grazie alla grafica 3D e le tante opzioni disponibili, l’esperienza utente ed il divertimento risulteranno maggiori, dato che riusciremo ad esprimere la voglia di comunicare in Read More

A couple of months ago we were notified that Booyah, a start-up company founded by three former Blizzard Entertainment veterans, was given $4.5 million in Series A financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) iFund.  This $100 million iFund was set up in March 2008 by KPCB to be invested in companies with “market-changing ideas” for the iPhone and iPod touch.  The thing is, no one really knew what market-changing idea Booyah had come up with to deserve the $4.5 million in funding, because even the initial press release was intentionally vague.  Well, today everyone was let in on this little secret. Booyah Society is a brand new iPhone and iPod touch app that basically allows you to obtain achievements for real-life activities. “Booyah Society will be intuitive to the generation surrounded by social networking and social games,” said Keith Lee, CEO, Booyah. “Booyah’s goal is to motivate people to Read More

Booyah is a company I've had my eye on for a while -- they're a couple of veterans from Blizzard Entertainment (makers of the popular and games, two of my favorites) who have been teasing a big-time iPhone app. Just today, they've finally showed their cards, and have released , a 3D, interactive, social network-connected "achievement system for life." If that sounds like an idea that's pretty floaty, you probably heard it right. Basically it's a game system that more or less overlays on what you're already posting to Facebook and Twitter. If you do anything from conquering a new videogame to doing a new exercise to visiting a new restaurant, you can earn achievements and points for an ingame avatar and scoreboard. In essence, they're aiming to take the things we already tell each other we're doing, and put this game/scoring system on top of that. There are plans to Read More