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Singapore-based mobile virtual stock market game TradeHero is now finally available for download on Google Play, which would no doubt help boost its user numbers considerably, given that a large part of the world uses Android devices.
TradeHero has a similar concept to Fantasy Football – you get to trade on its virtual platform with a $100,000 starting portfolio, and the market moves according to whatever is happening in real life. Users are then ranked on a leaderboard based on a basket of metrics, including how much profit they have raked if the trade had been conducted in reality.
It’s a free-to-use app, but to subscribe to another user’s trade feed — likely because you may want to replicate the trading in real life to rake in some profit – requires a fee starting from $1.99. Part of this fee then goes to the “leader” user, acting as an incentive to trade seriously on the platform.
The app has reached the number one position in the Apple App Store’s finance category in 75 countries since its launch about a year ago, and has acquired 350,000 registered users so far. It says its average user growth rate month on month was about 85 percent in 2013 — with the Android launch, this is set to increase.
➤ TradeHero: iOS | Google Play
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Evernote-linked blogging platform Postach.io rolls out premium tier and introduces new features
Mar04
Blogging service Postach.io, which slots into popular note-taking app Evernote, has rolled out a premium tier for its members at $5 per month, or $50 per year.
Postach.io, which is currently still in beta, allows you to write posts right from Evernote using a dedicated notebook and lets you set keywords like ‘published’, ‘page’ or ‘avatar’. More than just writing content, the blogging service also hooks into commenting tool Disqus, and supports Google Analytics and Markdown. It allows for custom domains and social sharing too.
The new premium tier gives you the choice of creating as many sites as you like, password protect them, and have multiple Postach.io users post to the same blog, with their own avatars.
Other than introducing the premium tier, Postach.io has also released a bunch of new features and improvements for its users. You now get an option to upload your custom profile avatar or logo directly on the site. This means you can no longer just add a note tagged ‘avatar’, but individual authors can maintain their own avatars in their Postach.io accounts.
Another new feature is the Social Bar — which lets users follow sites that get listed in their dashboard, so it becomes easier to keep tabs on new content. You can also like posts that you find interesting, either from the site itself or from the Discover Feed.
Embed codes have also gotten a revamp — they now use the same detection as WordPress shortcodes, therefore becoming more reliable. Postach.io has also added Flickr single-photo embeds that work with both full and short URLs, as well as SoundCloud and Pixton embed codes.
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We’ve all been in a situation where nature calls at a crowded event and an empty toilet is nowhere to be found. Airpnp is an experimental service that aims to solve this problem — by letting residences and businesses rent out their bathrooms to people in their immediate location who need to use it.
Airpnp is now available for users to lease out their bathrooms through a mobile optimized Web app, and native apps are in the works. The service itself will be put to test during Mardi Gras 2014 in New Orleans, which happens on March 4. There are currently a handful of toilets listed on the site spanning a range of prices — some bathrooms are free, while urinating at a hotel bathroom where “Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage, Frank Sinatra, and Walt Disney have all peed” requires a payment of $10.
Users can even rate their pee experience afterwards to see how each restroom ranks — though in a time of desperation, it probably doesn’t really matter how great the toilet is.
It seems like the so-called “sharing economy,” which includes Airbnb and ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, is here to stay — after all, it has now even spread to the most basic of needs: peeing.
➤ Airpnp
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