Reading something interesting on your iPhone and frustrated you can't easily post it to Google+? Now there's a solution that takes some of the pain out of using Google+ on the iPhone. No, it's not the native client from Google. It's DoAT, a content aggregating and reading app. DoAT is one of the first iOS apps to support sharing with Google+. There is no official API support yet, so DoAT uses a little hackery to get around this limitation. It uses the mobile web version of Google+ and inserts both the name of the page you are viewing and the link automatically. It's easier than doing it manually, and DoAT is a fun app if you haven't checked it out yet. Read More

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More When DoAT (aka Do@) launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in May, their unique take on search and mobile apps earned rave reviews. Unsurprisingly, they were selected by the judges to be a finalist. And they continue to stay ahead of the curve, by quickly embracing Google+. The latest version of their iPhone app, which just went live in the App Store, supports sharing of content from within their app to Google’s new social network. How is this possible since Google hasn’t yet exposed APIs for people to play with? Read More

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More When DoAT (aka Do@) launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in May, their unique take on search and mobile apps earned rave reviews. Unsurprisingly, they were selected by the judges to be a finalist. And they continue to stay ahead of the curve, by quickly embracing Google+. The latest version of their iPhone app, which just went live in the App Store, supports sharing of content from within their app to Google’s new social network. How is this possible since Google hasn’t yet exposed APIs for people to play with? Read More

Search, whether it’s on mobile or the desktop, isn’t very interesting.  I rarely bother with the Google app or the Bing app, and only use iOS’s built-in search to quickly find an app.  It’s not that the applications aren’t good; it’s just I don’t have cause to use them, or know where to find the information I need. Do@ (pronounced do-at) has received a fair amount of hype, with tech-evangelist Robert Scoble promoting it earlier in the year, but at first glance it’s just another search app for the iPhone – and therefore just another app sitting on my phone not being used. While it’s not going to change my (non) search habits, Do@ is actually quite interesting and seems to condense down my desktop search process into one single source.  Let’s say you want to know all there is about the new Hobbit film.  Fire up Do@ and pop the Read More

by Mobile search startup Do@ is changing how we hunt for information on our phones. Typically, if you want to find something while you’re out and about, you turn to the mobile web and spend a few minutes on a search engine’s mobile website. Or you launch one of a dozen or more apps to help you find the specific thing you want — you turn to your Yelp app to find a good restaurant nearby, and you open Fandango to find a theater showing that movie you want to see. Wouldn’t it be easier to have a single utility that searched a slew of mobile apps and websites for the exact thing you need, returning just the pages most relevant to you? That’s Do@‘s premise and mission: to create a revolutionary mobile search experience. Here’s how the app works: First, the user types in a keyword, subject or topic, including Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Jun 15, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! do@ (doAT): A revolutionary mobile search experience. Start by typing a short query, which can be as simple as a movie title, a band, a product or any other subject or topic. Instead of links, your results will appear as mobile web-apps from the best publishers and app developers. [Free - iTunes link] GetGlue: Connect with friends and fans around the TV shows, movies, music, and sporting events that you love. Now with push notifications and in-app alerts, easier access to your messages, and more! [Free - iTunes link] Catalog Spree: Browse familiar catalogs, discover new brands, search for items, Read More

In this continuing series here on ReadWriteWeb, we round up some of our favorite new applications for smartphones each month, specifically for iPhone and Android devices. This spring edition includes some major new launches on Android, like Netflix and Google Music, as well as some incredible technology leaps on iPhone, like the app which identifies trees by their leaves! As a bonus for this month, we've added a section with notable app updates and another featuring new tablet apps. New Apps for iPhone LeafSnap: Possibly the most ground-breaking app released in recent days, LeafSnap lets you identify trees by taking a picture of their leaves. Created by researchers at Columbia University, University of Maryland and the Smithsonian Institute, the app is like something you would see on TV, roll your eyes at and scoff, "as if that exists!" Well, technology moves fast - it exists! And, according to the app's description, Read More

...a revolution for your mobile search, check out @doat who was just named as finalist for #tcdisrupt: http://cot.ag/m7ByJ3... Read More

...@doat is #12 under "top free" apps in App Store "reference" section! Help take us into the top 10! http://cot.ag/m7ByJ3 #tcdisrupt... Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! NBC Nightly News: Stay on top of the day’s biggest news stories, anytime, anywhere. Watch individual segments and exclusive online videos, read Brian’s blog, and more! [Free - iTunes link] VocalZap: Real-time vocal removal app that allows you to instantly reduce or remove the vocals from your favorite songs. [Free - iTunes link] do@: A revolutionary mobile search experience. Instead of links, your results will appear as web-apps from the best publishers and app developers. [Free - iTunes link] Silly-Dino: Why did the T-Rex cross the road? And, what should you do if you find a blue Triceratops? A book Read More

Don't search by links, search by pages. Imagine that you're searching for a restaurant or for a movie time on your iPhone, but instead of receiving a long list of links, you see thumbnail images for Web sites instead. Meet Do@ (doo-at) (download), a newly launched iPhone freebie that does just that. With Do@, search results aren't just thumbnails for pages you have to load, they're active Web sites that you can enter, explore, and exit without losing the rest of those live site results. Search begins with a query as usual, and when you start typing, the app supplies suggestions--not for common phrases, but for contextual categories to narrow your search. For example, type "Inception" and you'll get to pick from suggestions like "Inception @search," "@movies," "@Netflix," and so on. Type sushi and you'll see restaurant, recipe, and Amazon category types. The app launches with about 30 categories and more Read More

A couple years ago, Steve Jobs drew a line in the sand between mobile apps and search. “On a mobile device,” he declared, “search hasn’t happened. Search is not where it’s at. People aren’t searching on a mobile device like they do on the desktop. What is happening is they are spending all of their time in apps.” Up until now, the divide has remained. You can either search the mobile web or you can search inside narrow apps. But today with the launch of Do@ at Disrupt NYC, you can do both. Do@, which is an iPhone app available today, is a new kind of mobile search engine. It doesn’t search the web. It searches apps. Lots of them. Instead of search results presented as ten blue links, they are presented as fully-functioning, relevant screens from iPhone apps. So if you search for the movie The Godfather, Do@ will allow Read More

Search is a market many assume is over as far as startups are concerned. After all, how could anyone compete with Google and Microsoft? A new service called Do@ thinks there is still room to change the way we search, however — not on the desktop, but on mobile devices, where the traditional search engine paradigm arguably isn’t as useful. The company launched today with an iPhone app and a $7-million investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and says it has a new way of searching that’s not only better, but will also bring a more open approach to the current Google-controlled market. Co-founder Ami Ben-David said in an interview before the Do@ launch that the current way we search for information on a mobile device is too cumbersome, since it usually involves typing words into Google and then scrolling through a list of links, trying desperately to find one that has Read More