What is UrbanKite ?
UrbanKite gives everyone something to talk about and a chance to share their favourite tips, hidden gems, moods or questions about their favourite places straight from their phone.
Want to find and share tips on the best places to visit near you, wherever you are? UrbanKite is a brand new application for your mobile that lets you do just that. Simply choose a category from the menu screen and UrbanKite will find the closest venues in your area, whether pubs & clubs, restaurants, music venues or even the nearest bank!
You can revue tips left by other UrbanKite users commenting on anything from the quality of the venue, the atmosphere of the place or the attractiveness of the staff (people can be so cruel!). You can also leave your own tips which are automatically published to your Twitter profile to be viewed by your followers. What’s more, thanks to Google’s local business listings, UrbanKite is always bang up to date with the hottest new places. Simple.
UrbanKite Features:
- Up to the minute GPS and web based information on your location
- Lists of the most relevant businesses near your location
- Highlights of popular places to go
- Search facilities for any business
- Sort searches and listings
- Save your favourite places
- Get contact details and business information
- Read tips from local experts
- Write instant tips while still at the location
- Post tips to Twitter
- Find like-minded users and discover other places they care about
So, how does it all work?
Once UrbanKite has used your phone’s GPS function to find your location, simply choose the type of place you want to find, be it bar, Italian restaurant or even the nearest bank. Then, using technical web wizardry, UrbanKite links to Google’s local business listings to find the closest matches for your criteria.
At a glance you can see the most popular venues with the most fans and read the latest tips written for each listing. Simply select one of the available listings to get contact details for the venue, read all posted tips or post tips yourself. All your tips are posted directly to your Twitter account along with a link to a business information page for your followers to check out.
Selecting a tip will show all other related tips written by the user. Businesses can be added to your favourites at any time where they will be stored in-phone as a permanent link on your UrbanKite profile. After logging on with your Twitter details, all your favourites are then saved to the online server.
Last but not least, UrbanKite’s search function allows you to run searches for businesses and place names anywhere in the world.
what are the benefits of using UrbanKite?
- Remember in the old days, the only way to immediately discover great places nearby was if they were recommended to you by a know-it-all friend? With UrbanKite those days are gone. Just pull up a great tip and get your day, evening or week started!
- It can be difficult to remember that great restaurant you visited in Soho 2 months ago with your mates, especially due to that great wine offer! With UrbanKite’s favourites feature, store your top places whatever end of town you find yourself in. These can be easily retrieved should you visit there again.
- UrbanKite gives twitterholics a great reason to tweet tips about places they have been to recently and enjoyed (or not) and to contribute to the urban community in which they live. Call it having a social conscience if you will.
- UrbanKite will appeal to tweeters who are not interested to read that CouchPotato is “taking a bath” or BookWorm is “having a Potter marathon”. Instead, they will get to read tips about the latest rock club or tastiest bagel shop.
- Fly your Kite! Each tip posted to Twitter contains a link to details of the business listed, so those who don’t have UrbanKite can still use tips to discover local hotspots online.