Get Jam! (Please)

The app this post is about is actually called Get Jam, it wasn't that I was ordering you to get some jam, although by all means if you would like to, please do. The app I'm talking about is a mobile exclusive app where you are rewarded for watching videos on your mobile device. You get berries for watching videos which are what count as your points. Their are different amounts of points avaliable for watching each video, but most often they are around the 5-15 points mark. The videos are often promoting a brand or film, as well as being able to get points which you can redeem for prizes, you may well find the videos intresting, their usually only a minute or so long so quite short, It's a good way for advertisers to get their messages across.
Here's what you can redeem your berries for;

Paypal (Speedy delivery)   £2.50 for 300points     

Paypal(Standard delivery)   £2.50 for


Amazon   £10 voucher for 1200 points


itunes gift certificate   £10 for 1200 berries or £15 for 1800 berries


Top Up mobile phone credit (Very nice idea to feature this as a reward on a mobile app), for this option you will need to choose your network and required phone top up amount, a good range of networks are available to choose from.

Tunetribe voucher   £2.50 for 300 points


So a nice range of rewards to choose from.

Their is also a offers page where you can earn berries for completing offers such as joining a website. I have been using Get Jam for quite a lot of months so far and I have to say, I think their great app, I don't really have a bad word to say about them. The only thing I'd highlight is that after watching the video, remember to bank your berries by clicking the bank button underneath the video, if you leave the page without doing so then no berries for you, if you leave the video page after playing the clip without hitting the bank button, it will count as you not watching it.
So, if you have an iphone or android or blackberry then this app comes highly recommended as a rewarding video programme. You can download Get Jam free from your systems app store.

Here's Get Jam's official website:
  http://www.getjam.co.uk/

New Site From Amazon-My Habbit

Amazon have launched a new website called My Habbit which offers up to 60% of the brands it sells. It's currently selling women and men's clothes and has a homeware section too. You must be a member to shop their, but if your already registered with Amazon then you can login with those details. If you happen to be buying from the USA then you'll have an added bonus of free shipping. I'll be looking more at the website in detail and see what their service is like for upcoming posts, for now you can check out My Habbit at
www.myhabbit.com

A review of the Epad tablet, styled like an ipad, see it in action here

Part 2 soon!

Wondered what celebrity you look like? Well http://www.myheritage.com/ has a feature that aims to tell you. Click http://celebrity.myheritage.com/celebrity-collage to go their. Here you can try out myheritage's face recognition technology where after uploading a photo of yourself, you can create a collage of your celebrity lookalikes and upload them to profiles, blogs or send them via email. I'm going to have a try on a photo of me, the ones I have seen so far of other people's matches I can see why it's picked the celebs it has for them. After your matches are shown you get a percentage of how much you actually look like them. Good little website to try out. 

OK, so here we are with Google+. Well once you have signed up( if you have already signed up with any of Google's other services you can use the same username and password) you can now check out your homepage which will have this kind of layout.I have edited out any parts from my contacts that I don't have permission to include in the screenshots, other then that this should look just like your page, focusing on the 'stream' area. Maybe without a profile photo of me, if you have got that profile pic then you have some explaining too do, don't you?

So, here we have a familiarly set out layout to those who have used the likes of facebook, with the 'box' to update your status and add to your stream pics, movies, ect. When you decide to add something to your stream you then need to decide which of your contacts to send the update too.  Now, this is where Google+ is a different from other social networking websites like the mentioned facebook.. When you want to add something to your stream and then decide who to send to, you need to decide which 'circle' to send to.

In The Circle

Now 'circle' is the name Google + gives to a group of contacts. You create these groups under the 'circles' section. These are where you store your contacts-you add them to a circle that represents the group of contacts they are. For example when you sign up you will already be given some circles, one is Friends, so you can add your friends to that circle. Say you were uploading a photo you wanted to show the contacts in your friends circle, you would select their circle and the photo would then be sent to that group. If you then wanted to send the photo to another group of contacts, then you would also need to select their circle.

So that's the circle system in brief. Now what you can add to your stream is the classic social networking fare; text, videos, photos and they have also gone the way of the likes of forsquare in that you can post the location are at with the messages you send to your stream.
Next, I'll post on the other features of Google+.

Google+facebook=ANew Social Network Winner?

Earlier on, I had my first try of the Google+, the new social networking website from Google. It had been invite only, but as you may have found like I did, on Google's homepage  an invite can appear (displaying an arrow) showing you how you can try Google+. So if you have not yet had an invite by email to Google+ you may find you can try it through that way. Now Google+ is still in it's beta stage, so everything may not be as the makers want for when the complete version is ready to be rolled out. But this beta gives you a chance to see some of what Google+ has to offer and try out what could turn out to be a very different style social networking website. Coming up on my next post, a look at what I have found Google+ has to offer at the moment, as well as what I think of it so far.

So here it is, Google+. Wonder what those facebook creators are thinking of Google's entry in their territory?

   

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