New App Using Viafo: TVPyx

Another new app just went live in the Windows Phone Marketplace, TVPyx is a TV Guide application for the United Kingdom which integrates a full range of social networking functionality through our gateway.  If you want to interact with the Twitter stream for a show that you're watching or want to watch, it's there at your fingertips.

TVPyx uses our new Native Windows Phone integration code which is available on Github.

Viafo Comes Second at Nokia Hackathon

Viafo came second in the Nokia World Hackathon for the launch of the Lumia range of Windows Phones.  Our entry, Blood Sprint (www.bloodsprint.com) is aimed at helping Blood Donation Services and Blood Donors connect via a simple to use mobile app and web service.

True to our company mission, to make apps better, we integrated a wide range of social and location functions into the app to make it a fun and viral solution.

For more information, check out this interview we gave Nokia.

http://www.ideasproject.com/docs/DOC-8818

You can also download the app for your Windows Phone device here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/74e223d3-d94e-484b-abdc-fbc9f29daf65

Introducing Viafo Labs

As a product solution provider, we have a love/hate relationship with Services.  On the one hand, they're great for driving revenue, but can be disruptive to product development and planning.

However, we've come to realise that just finding your way through the maze that is interactive services for apps can be an absolute nightmare, which can lead to increased costs and support needs over time.  Realising that our customers are all having similar problems and that our product is only half the solution, we've decided to create Viafo Labs, dedicated to helping people out with the issues created by the mess of APIs and third party services that an app needs to succeed.

Contact us today for a consult and we can see how we can help out!

API Market is getting big

You don't have to take our word for it, how about this article:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/12/02/the-api-market-is-taking-a-big-shape/

Basically, there's a lot of movement in the space that we're focusing on.  Hopefully we'll be able to give you more insight into that next week, with the launch of Viafo Labs, our services arm, and videos showing how effective our Gateway is at enabling social networking services in your apps.

Welcome Google Plus AND yet more reasons why you should be using Viafo...

I will admit to being slightly taken aback by how quickly I've seen Google+ go from something that arrived in my inbox, to something that I'm using more than Facebook and where I already have a non-trivial part of my social graph on already.

And this highlights I think, the need for our gateway.  Here's a new social network, it's rapidly growing, but it's by no means a sure thing that it's going to be a success.  So, what a sane mobile or similar developer would do would be to wait.  Of course, by waiting you might miss out on a new service or a new feature or a new way of interacting with your users.  So should you really wait?

Then again, if you're on iPhone there's a built in wait for you anyway.  You're not going to have Google Plus integrated instantly.

Whereas, with our gateway, the moment that we get access to the Google Plus API then you'd have access through the same set of APIs you're using to talk to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and LinkedIn - now, doesn't that make sense?

We're looking forward to welcoming Google Plus into the fold.