Educated, objective and constructive feedback is a very powerful and valuable thing. It’s why people pay shrinks and consultants hundreds of dollars an hour. It’s why people need teachers and mentors. For engineers and designers, your online consultant has arrived. A new website,DomainPolishtakes the guesswork out of building websites. DomainPolish is a way to get reliable, on-demand feedback on your website from the average end-user. To use it, enter in your site’s URL or a screenshot of a potential page and the site sends it out to reviewers on Amazon Mechanical Turk....

The digital world is rapidly opening up different ways marketers can interact with their customers. You’ve heard terms like “brand evangelists” and “tapping into social graphs,” but how do these terms apply to you and your company? Due to its pace and newness, this new wave of marketing can feel like an overwhelming tsunami of variables. To catch the early breaks and make the most out of your experience, we hooked up with Extole, a leading provider of social engagement applications that drive measurable results on and off Facebook for leading brands and agencies....

The days of lament over album sales are long gone. Bands have gotten with the times, and are constantly seeking new, innovative ways to reach fans in the digital age. Check outour storyon Bluebrain, a Washington, D.C. based band who put out the first musical album that’s also a location aware iPhone app. Now that’s epic innovation! Being tech savvy and jumping on the social media train, like any smart brand, is essential for bands....

Foodspotting, one of the most popular social foodie apps, began in 2009 when cofounders Alexa Andrzejewski, Ted Grubb and Soraya Darabi put their heads together to address what they felt was a lack of proper food reviewing apps. Foodspotting celebratedits one-year anniversary this January and boasts over 600,000 iPhone app users and the equivalent in website visits. It also has anAndroid app in betaand $3 million in Series A funding plus a $750,000 seed round....

This morning,we reportedthatFoursquarewas growing at the rate of 1 million users per month. Today, Foursquare boasts 600 million checkins total, averaging 3 million per day from its nearly 10 million users. The big announcement today occurred when Crowley took out his INQ Cloud Touch smartphone aka The Facebook phone, which is only available in the overseas at the moment. The Android smartphone has built its platform to include Foursquare’s API and location layer to seamlessly discover new places nearby and check-in, without having to open up the Foursquare app itself....