If you are newly comer to the unknown city it is sometimes quite hard to find a nice place, of non-touristic attraction, where you can order a meal for normal price, buy and do things like local ones. Knowing specifics of the city, first of all, will let you dissolve in the exploring city atmosphere and, of course, safe some of you money funds. New questionnaire site, Drumo, will let you ask and get responses of real local citizens. It is based on quora-style discussion board connected to geographical data of major metropolitan areas.
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Roamz, new application that will enable you to know what is going on locally around your neighborhood. Using it you may skip on checking local newspapers and social networks updates. This startup project will gather on information of upcoming events what are going to happen nearby. Public information from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram about certain venues is collected in order to feed it to client’s interests. Out of processed data ten categories are built, ranging from child or pet friendly activities to shopping, restaurants, attractions and nightlife.
The very idea to clean came to programmer Michael Devine when he looked for a job earlier this year. The assumption, that not all potential employers will like his hot-tempered comments, jokes or likes, led him to nice idea. So he decided to develop the mobile application which will make his social image more neutral. As he wanted to undo his impulsive posts, he thought it may interest others as well.
