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AppCircus Dev Day wrap up: the winner is… Dogfight!

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Dogfight, a game that has achieved 1,5 million players in 3 months, won the AppCircus Developer Day contest in Barcelona. In the runner-up position, the jury chose DressApp, a pocket closet app that offers users the option to view and manage their clothes throught their mobile anywhere & anytime. DressApp is a new marketing way for shops in Barcelona that allows them to increase sales through an iPhone & Android application.

After receiving the prize, the creator of Dogfight, a Spanish engineer that started programming at age 8, said that the best acknowledgement for his work comes from the players. He uses their feedback to improve the game. Dogfight has a very powerful social side as players can communicate throught a chat and a forum. Dogfight could be nominated to participate in the Mobile Premier Awards to take place next February in Barcelona.

The 11 contending apps at AppCircus Developer Day were all incredibly interesting and the jury had a hard time deciding on a winner.

AppCircus Developer Day took place last 21st of June in UPF Campus de la Comunicació in Barcelona. For the first time in Spain an app developer event included 1-on-1 Speed mentoring sessions with industry experts who provided valuable feedback to developers with an app. The event also included workshops on OpenData and developing on several platforms, as well as spaces for networking.

We would like to thank our more than 150 attendants that declared a 95% overall satisfaction!

AppCircus Newsletter #43 – London Calling, Lisbon Finalists and Open Cities App Challenge extended!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Welcome to the AppCircus!!!

Join the AppCircus - the travelling showcase of apps! See the winners of latest AppCircus events! Check out up and coming events! Exciting days ahead for app developers engaging with the AppCircus brand. Check out this week's fresh news!

  • Last days to register your app at AppCircus @ Campus London
  • Few spots left to attend AppCircus Developer Day
  • AppCircus Lisbon finalists
  • 77 BONUS days to submit your app at the OpenCities App Challenge
  • Meffys Awards deadline approaching
  • WebVisions coming to Barcelona

AppCircus @ Google Campus London deadline June 21.

Last days to register your app to pitch at AppCircus @ Google Campus on July 4. Registration deadline is June 21.
The event is set to be of another great reference for the London-based app developers to showcase their talent and for the local app ecosystem players to learn about new the business opportunities in this exciting and fast-moving space. Check out the jury to select the apps and who will be judging the apps on stage at Google Campus on July 4th.
The event is free; you only need to register here to attend.

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June 21th Barcelona AppCircus Developer Day: On stage Jury Revealed

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Next June 21 Barcelona will host one of the most awesome events of the season: AppCircus Developer Day, with speed mentoring sessions for developers to learn with experts, workshops and the AppCircus context with 10 great apps competing to be in next year’s Mobile Premier Awards!

Meet the professionals that will be part of the jury on stage: (more...)

AppCircus Developer day selected apps

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

We're excited to announce the apps to pitch at the Appcircus Developer Day event to take place next June 21 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Comunicació-Poblenou (Roc Boronat, 138) (google map). AppCircus Developer Day is a free event that includes workshops and 1-on-1 speed mentoring sessions with experts for developers to discover new opportunities for creating revenue-generating mobile apps and succeed in the app economy.

The selected developers will do a 3-minute pitch of their app in front of an expert jury. The winner will get a chance to win a nomination to the Mobile Premier Awards, during the 2013 Mobile World Congress.

The AppCircus Developer Day event starts at 17h and the winner will be announced at 18.30h.

The selected apps include:

SetFace puts a face to your smartphone contacts looking for public images on the Internet that may have profiles, photo albums, blogs, depending on the person’s visibility and notoriety on the Internet. Available in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Dogfight is a WWI based multiplayer airplane game that is full of action. Fly through training levels all the way up to full-blown dogfights against enemy planes. Playing alone is fun but the real fun is going multiplayer against your friends

beAdSense is a powerful and beautiful Google AdSense ™ (readonly) client. Its key features are: universal application, Google 2-step verification login support, multiple AdSense accounts support, quick earnings information of: Today, Month total and Month average, quick next/prev report gestures (swipe right or left to change them quickly), month summary, month summary chart (+ landscape mode chart), among others.

QuitNow! is an app designed to help people quit smoking. It also has an advanced 'chat' where users can talk about their feelings while quitting smoking.

QuesTInSitu is a web and mobile app designed and built to support learning in situ activities based on tests. Users can create geolocated questions and tests (routes) in a webmap (from Google Maps). The questions follow the educational technology standard for assessment IMS Question & Test Interoperability (QTI). QuesTInSitu also is a player of questions where users can answer the geolocated questions and they are automatically corrected.

DressApp is a new marketing way for shops in Barcelona that allows them to increase sales through an iPhone & Android app. "DressApp, Your Pocket Closet" offers users the option to view and manage their clothes closet through their mobile anywhere & anytime. In just 2 months it has had 15,000 downloads.

Learning a foreign language? Looking for partners to practice with? What if nobody in your social network can practice with you? Introducing Lext Talk: the first social networking and chat app designed for Language Exchange! Search the map to find others who have similar language interests, near you or across the globe. Send them a message and start the conversation!

The first Smartphone directory for professionals. From casualjobs you may look for professionals, organised in more than 1000 categories, and become a member of the directory and publish your professional profiles. Casualjobs is different from other apps, because it actually find applicants, it categorizes them and puts them in touch with the person who needs the job done.

Make sure to never miss any of the most important sports news. Sports Republic gathers sports news from the whole world so that no one misses what really matters for them. Sports Republic has an elegant and customizable interface, and allows you to become your own sports news editor.

New Sokoban is a puzzle solving game that challenges you with a renewed version of classic sokoban logic game. What about sliding the boxes while swiping onto your device screen? What if sokoban world got new rules and laws? New Sokoban offers to you a completely new gameplay that makes solving puzzles a peaceful and brain breaker experience. Ready?

Diaro is an awesome application that helps visitors in Barcelona to get the right directions when walking through the city. With Diaro, finding buildings, monuments, museums, restaurants or other points of interest is as simple as following an arrow. No data connection needed.

Presentamos el jurado para AppCircus en México DF!

Friday, June 8th, 2012

¡En AppCircus en México DF las apps seleccionadas tienen mucho nivel! Estos son los 4 miembros del jurado on stage que seguirán las presentaciones de los 10 desarrolladores seleccionados... ¡y que votarán la app ganadora de AppCircus en México DF, que podrá ser nominada para los Mobile Premier Awards!

Todavía quedan plazas para inscribirse al evento del próximo 13 de junio, y al taller gratuito "Introducción al desarrollo para BlackBerry Playbook en Adobe AIR", impartido por Edgar Parada. Es un taller enfocado a aprender los fundamentos de la tecnología Flex para desarrollar aplicaciones nativas para BlackBerry Tablet OS mediante Adobe AIR. Con esta tecnología se aprovecha el poder de la Plataforma Flash para construir aplicaciones que se comuniquen con diferentes características de PlayBook como la cámara, la geolocalización y el almacenamiento local, entre otros.

Registro aquí!

Carlos Silva Ponce de León

Carlos Silva Ponce de León es Gerente de Alianzas de Research In Motion (RIM) para México y Centroamérica. Silva es responsable del desarrollo de alianzas con empresas de medios y marcas de consumo que aprovechan la plataforma BlackBerry en sus iniciativas de marketing interactivo. Es Ingeniero en Cibernética y Sistemas Computacionales por la Universidad La Salle y Maestro en Economía de Negocios por el Tec de Monterrey.  Es Profesor del Diplomado de Marketing Interactivo del Internet Advertising Bureau México y el ITESM y es miembro del Consejo Directivo del Instituto del Derecho de las Telecomunicaciones (IDET).

César Salazar

César Salazar es un inversionista y socio fundador de Mexican VC, el fondo de descubrimiento de Silicon Valley enfocado en startups mexicanas. Ha sido emprendedor y diseñador de interacción por más de 10 años. Recientemente, ha impulsado esfuerzos clave para fortalecer los ecosistemas hacker y emprendedor de México. Adicionalmente, es uno de los promotores principales de SuperHappyDevHouse, Hackspedition y StartupWeekend. César es un viajero, un fotógrafo amateur y un entusiasta observador del comportamiento humano.

Lina Elizabeth

Lina Elizabeth es directora de Mercadotecnia y Relaciones Públicas de COSMOS Online, el portal de negocios líder en México y América Latina. Imparte el exitoso Curso “Haciendo Negocios en Internet”. Ha generado importantes estrategias de Mercadotecnia y Relaciones Públicas de la compañía, enfocada a dar a conocer la marca e impulsar los resultados del área comercial. Es supervisora del estudio de "Twitter en México" 2009 y 2010. Ha sido panelista y conferencista en varios eventos, entre los que se destaca el “Seminario Avanzado de Marketing Digital”, “Taller de Redes Sociales para Negocios”, entre otros. Juez de la categoría Campaña Publicitaria de los Reconocimientos Amipci 2010. Integrante del Comité de Mercadotecnia y Publicidad de la Asociación Mexicana de Internet. Con diez años de experiencia en Comercialización, MKT y RP enfocada para negocios en línea.

Ing. Juan Carreón

Es profesor en la Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNAM, donde actualmente es profesor Titular en Economía y Sistemas Inteligentes. Tiene estudios de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, y de maestría en Estudios Latinoamericanos (1979-1982). Ha dirigido un centenar de tesis, ha publicado más de 1600 artículos en áreas tecnológicas y económicas, ha sido accionista e inversor en numerosas empresas, además de haber participado en cientos de eventos educativos, tecnológicos y empresariales, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional.