Love gift cards but want to pay below market prices?CardNapcould be your new favorite site. The gift card platform launched today, allowing visitors to either resell or buy discounted gift cards. “We initially launched this as a Cardpool like company for Australia, but it failed due to lack of profitability and how intense it was. So we looked at our options, and looked at the pains of these sorts of sites....
We first wrote aboutConsmrthis past January in our list of11 New York City Startups To Watch in 2011. I’ve spent 6 months waiting for the site to launch, thinking about it every time I realize how much I hate the smell of Pantene Pro-V or how much I love a new organic dish soap. In fact, by the time I get to work in the morning I’ve used over 20 different products that I could’ve rated on Consmr....
As a company,Do@launched in March 2010 in San Francisco, but today atTech CrunchDisrupt, the company has officially launched its product: the ultimate mobile search experience. Mobile search and web-based search should be two entirely different experiences. Your interactions with the Internet on your phone are a very different process to that of your laptop. Just launchedin the app storetoday,Do@, pronounced ‘Do-it’, is aiming to revolutionize the way you search the web on mobile by optimizing search through the app experience, providing results based on data direct from publishers....
RememberBonApp, the deliciousFoursquarehack that suggests dishes to you when you check-in at restaurants? Well, the intelligent foodies behind BonApp have just launchedFoodster, a web app*, which displays a ranking of restaurants in descending order of popularity on a map. The popularity is decided by the number of foods that have been mentioned in a positive way on Foursquare tips. “The fantastic thing about this approach is ranking a restaurant based on how people rate individual dishes,” says co-creator Namit Chadha, who worked on the app with theAppSparkteam....
For the past few months, four of New York City’s most notorious movers and shakers have been hard at work: Alexander Basek, a contributor to Travel + Leisure, theNew York Postand the co-author of several Fodor’s guidebooks; Colin James Nagy from theBarbarian Group,Noah Brier, entrepreneur and co-founder of Percolate; and one silent partner who works in music publishing. Together, the four of them have collectively traveled well over half a million miles in the past year, so it only seems natural that they’ve launchedFortnighter, a site dedicated to providing travelers with custom-tailored itineraries packed with gems only a true wanderlust would know....
