The top 50 android applications were announced this week. From Silicon Alley - “Each of the 50 finalists will receive $25,000. Another 10 of them will get $100,000 and 10 will get $275,000, for a total of $5 million.” Not bad for a little app. Now I’m thinking I should have done one. As I read through the list, a few of them got me pretty excited:

• SynchroSpot - Shaun Terry: This application does location based personal reminders and location based ads. So, you can drop information about a location, and as someone else enters it, it will be displayed back to you. I’m sure there’s advertising possibilities here, but I’m more interested in the geo-overlay possibilities. Imagine being able to annotate a great campground for the next campers, or linking a location into your CRM for field applications. Even though it’s an android app, there’s no reason it couldn’t be ported using the new iPhone SDK…
• gWalk - Klaus ten Hagen, et al: This application enables tourists to to discover a destination individually using context sensitive information. I love how this blends data discovery with 3D space. I’m thinking about emergency services applications, where data may be changing dynamically and emergency workers need to access it in real time. BreadCrumbz is almost as good: allows you to navigate using pictures of what you should be seeing.
• BioWallet - Jose Fernandez: This application does biometrics to identify people using Iris scans. The example given is for securing your phone; I’d use it in homeland security applications.
• FreeFamilyWatch- Navee Technologies: Mashes together a location with known crime data, showing you in real time how safe your family members are. I like the dashboard nature of this, but I will say that if you live somewhere were you need this… move.

Posted by Thomas Howe @ 11:26 pm | Filed Under Lead Stories |

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