Tag Archives: app development

‘Find my car’ app can also catch crooks

This is an interesting “emergent usage” of an app. Westfield have added a function to find your car in their carparks – by scanning the CCTV images, but the police could use it to find your car if stolen.

via SMH

I thought it’d be great to integrate the city’s CCTV network with Facebook face-recognition and get automatic updates on nearby friends.

“Facebook Alert: Hi, you have 3 ex-girlfriends and 1 mother in-law within 300 metres, would you like to go offline now?”


Pizza Hut’s iPhone app to capture 10% of online sales

via AdNews:

Pizza Hut hopes to capture 10% of its total online sales mix with the second version of its iPhone app, released today.

The initial app has been downloaded 257,000 times since its release and Pizza Hut predicts the latest version will garner a further 20,000 downloads over the next four weeks.

Pizza Hut wants to increase its online sales to 40% and hopes the roll out of the revised app will help them achieve that.

World of Fourcraft turns Foursquare into city wide game of Risk

Something like this would get me to use Foursquare every minute of every day. via Mashable: World of Fourcraft uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking [...]