• Tango works on almost everything, except the BlackBerry (Hah!).You can get it on your iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, whatever. As long as you and your friend has the app, then you can get crystal-clear video chatting with no passwords or logins. 
• The best way to use this bad boy is for making free international phone calls. What a money saver!
• If you ever used WhatsApp, you must have been shocked when you realized that all your phone contacts who had the app were automatically added to a list. Tango works the exact same way so you don't even have to add people one by one.

• You can't get a nicer looking site? Maybe it's just the orange... ;)

• We always tell you to try the app. This time is no different. Download it now. As they say, it takes two to tango...

• One of the easiest ways to book a flight, Hipmunk uses a beautifully slick user interface to show you all the available flights and makes booking easy whether it is mobile, desktop or sending it to a friend by email.
• As I mentioned earlier, the hotel finder is sweet because it shows you where each hotel is using Google maps and the hotspots around the area. The hotel listings even look up AirBnB results so you get some more variety and interesting places to potentially stay.
• It was made by the co-founder of Reddit, Steve Huffman and Adam Goldstein (not to be mistaken for DJ AM who has the same name).
• They released an iPhone app last year and there is also an iPad app available now as well. It's also available on Android.
• A cool Facebook marketing campaign called "Hipmunk Me" launched about a year ago allows the first 500 people to like the page to turn their photos into hand-drawn chipmunks. 

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• Give the site a try for your next flight or hotel booking!

• Not wasting 6 months to test out whether an idea would work when you could have spent 2 weeks. These are the tricks of the trade my friends.
• Some of these are also perfect for someone with a day job trying to automate their more mundane tasks. (i.e., Google Alerts, Prezi, and Salesforce)

• Most people aren't too familiar with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or the art of making your desired webpage appear higher in search rankings by including keywords and making content relevant to a user's search. The BrandYourself platform lets you take steps to get you higher up on search engines by adding relevant pages such as LinkedIn profiles, your blog, etc so that these pages will show up before an unwanted ones (like a site showing with the drug dealer's mugshot.)
• The platform includes some simple tools that help boost your positive links up to the top such as optimizing your LinkedIn page or adding more articles written about you to Google's index. One cool feature is the ability to track your progress over time so you can see how much your links are rising up to the top.
• I like how easy it is to create a BrandYourself profile, which gives you an extra boost since 80% of them show up on Google's first page in just 2 weeks (Maybe not if your name is Michael Jordan or Jon Stewart).
• A very useful service since most people don't have the money to hire a reputation management company such as Reputation.com. This is definitely going to be a growing industry in the next 10 years and we'll be looking for other startups in this space.

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• With this little baby, your iPhone of iPad becomes your very own Arrivals and Destination board. You get flight information from over 4,000 airports and you can see the real-time flight status of any plane.
• Props to the makers for using the board from the Paris Charles De Gaulle airport as inspiration. It serves up a little retro touch.
• Congrats to Mobiata (makers of FlightBoard) for winning the 16th Annual Webby Awards for Best Travel App.

• We want to see options to filter by airline or terminal. On a somewhat related note, did you know that you can type your flight number into Google's search bar and it will display your flight status as well. (Try it sometime!)

• Use it for your next business trip or getaway flight to Ibiza (it costs $3.99). Another way to have a little fun is make pretend that you're a CIA agent and you're hunting down a spy (Clearly, I watch too much television...)

• If you've ever doubted the power of social media, this video which will do well to convince you of otherwise. Some of the numbers they throw out are simply astonishing. For example, everyday there are over 1 billion comments on Facebook and 300 million+ photo uploads (Did they count the Instagram numbers too? ;)) 
• It's also useful for understanding why startups in the future should really have a strategy for leveraging its open graph to piggyback on Facebook's users. It's still an inspiration how this company was started a little under 7 years ago from a Harvard dorm room. 
• For people In the industry trying to sell social media advertising to a client or even your own boss, show them this vid.

• It's not propaganda if you include touching music and the most picture perfect lighting for a company video I have ever seen. 

CraveWorthy Challenge:

• Check out the vid today. (Could you imagine life without Facebook? Maybe you can, but your friends probably won't  for it.)

• Written in 1999, I'm struck by how relevant this is for young professionals who are left lost and and questioning what their next step should be. This essay offers a wake-up call like no other.
• The core of the essay is based on a simple concept: to succeed in today's competitive landscape, one must cultivate a deeper understanding of your strengths and weaknesses. Ask yourself, how do you learn the best and how does this impact your work with others? 
• He draws on a series of examples which show that workers who learn the best when reading may be in the wrong position when they are asked to perform a role that limits their natural ability. Granted, "Know thy strengths" may seem a bit cliche but when was the last time you really figured out what factors make you perform the best. 
• If you feel like you're counting down the hours every day at work until you can get out of the office, I recommend that you give this a read. 
  
• The conclusion which he draws is a powerful one and I want to quote it in full:

"The shift from manual workers who do as they are told to knowledge workers who have to manage themselves profoundly challenges social structures. Every existing society takes two things for granted, if only subconsciously that organizations outlive workers, and that most people stay put. 

But today the opposite is true. Knowledge workers outlive organizations, and they are mobile. The need to manage oneself is therefore creating a revolution."

CraveWorthy Challenge:

• Check out the article in full here (PDF). 

What's Craveworthy?

• Translate words and phrases in more than 60 languages. In most cases, you can just speak into the phone/app and it will translate it over voice. 
  
• Perfect for when you're travelling for work and you want to say cheers to impress a client in their language. Just make sure that you get the language right. There still isn't an app out there to prevent jetlagged stupidity but if there is, we'll be the first to review it. 
• The best technology is invisible, as Steve Jobs would say. We have no idea how it works, but luckily someone wrote a post about this. Apparently, the real power in Google's translation service comes in the billions of pages that it indexes that make for more accurate pattern-matching in text. An official vid from Google proves that it indeed isn't a bunch of bilingual elves at work. 

• After a little research, I've noticed that there are a few languages that are missing. Klingon, Teletubby, Pig Latin, Ebonics, and Canadian. 

• Download the app today and give it a try! Let us know what you think on Facebook.

• A shout out to Noah for showing me this hilarious vid. I'm impressed that he's starting young; one day he'll be as good as this guy.
• Extra points for bringing a lady along for the ride!

• The system consists of four-columns showing tasks that are "To-Do", "Do Today", "In Progress" and "Done." Tasks are then grouped into these categories so that you can quickly see what stage a particular project is in. 
  
• Use the app for long-horizon projects that involve multiple steps. It really helps you visualize how long something will take and the app even includes a Pomodoro timer to get you on track. 
• Another nifty feature is the ability to share your projects with family and friends and collaborate.
• I know what I'm going to be using to plan my next trip to Vegas. 

CraveWorthy Challenge:

• Tell us what you think of the app on Facebook. Got a better way to manage your tasks? Pictures or it doesn't exist.

• A design lovers dream, it includes an advanced color picker, realistic brushes, multiple layers (for all you Photoshop users), and the ability to zoom down to the pixel. 
• I revel in how simple yet powerful the interface is. You don't have to worry about making mistakes because it saves your history so click the Undo button as many times as you want. 
• Use it to mock-up your next big startup or design idea. Many a great company has been created from chatting with friends and sketching things out on the back of the napkin. 

CraveWorthy Challenge:

• Paint anywhere today! (The app costs $7.99)

• SeekingAlpha offers a real-time investment news blog called Market Currents, named Inc Mag's #1 list of Essential Economic blogs. It also has the leading audience of any financial website which includes WSJ, Bloomberg, and CNN Money (Source), with the most C-Level executives on it.
  
• What I really dig about this site is that it is one of the largest publishers of free call transcripts from company meetings. Read or listen in to how CEO's of public companies describe their company's performance/priorities each quarter along with a Q&A with shareholders.
• For you non-finance geeks, the actual term "seeking alpha" means getting a return that is above and beyond the average return of the market average ("beta"). So in short, beating the market.

CraveWorthy Challenge:

• It's never too early or late to pick up some investing ideas. Check out the site today. 

• Who needs X-ray vision? A team at Google[x] decided to start Project Glass to see how an eyewear technology can help us explore and share our world.  It's part of a growing field called augmented reality and I'm stoked to give it a try one day. 

• Follow along its development here:  http://g.co/projectglass 

• One of National Geographic's best travel apps, the software enables your iPhone to categorize packing lists which means less hassle and more time to focus on the more important aspects of your trip. 
• The Pro version costs $3.99 and gives you access to the "Expert List Assistant", a feature that creates packing lists based on the number of adults/children you're travelling with, things to bring based on weather and destination, clothes washing preferences and more.
• New updates allow for syncing to iCloud as well as availability on the iPad. 

• Check out the app today and let us know on Facebook what you think!

• First launched in January 2010, the site has grown from a technology-focused Q&A board to a full-fledged community of experts on topics that are relevant to CraveWorthy readers such as social media, finance, careers as well as the eclectic (movie recommendations, philosophy, law, etc). 
• Some of my favorite questions include, "What is it like to have your film flop at the box office?"- The screenwriter for Conan the Barbarian 3D answers, "How much does it cost to buy a horse?" - around $5k, and Who would win in a bar fight, Napoleon, Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan?
• The best way to utilize the site for your professional advantage is to link it to the power of your social graph. In short, integrate it with your Facebook or LinkedIn account so that you can see what topics your friends + colleagues are reading, asking, and answering. Also to start, an employee at Quora does a weekly roundup of interesting new users: Mark Bodnick.
• If you are looking to ever start anything web or mobile related in terms of startups, this is the fountain of knowledge. Using this site will yield dividends because you can learn from other entrepreneur's successes and failures. 
• A new feature allows Quora to pull in articles from the web such as Forbes, Mashable, etc which have articles that are question-and-answer in nature. This means even more great answers for you!

• How do you browse topics? The site can really benefit from making topic categories clearer. You can search for topics but the problem with that is that you can never really see the Quora universe in its entirety. Another solution is a better discovery mechanism a la Reddit.

CraveWorthy Challenge:

• Answer this question for us: "Where's the best milkshake place in NYC?"

• If you have never used Bump, it's pretty simple. Just hold two phones and *gently* touch them together. You'll feel a vibration when it successfully transfers. 
• Bump Pay connects through a person's email address so that you can pay them through PayPayl. What's the secret sauce? A matching algorithm which is able to pick up which phone is linked with what account.
• It's a completely free app to use, all you need to pay are the standard PayPal transfer fees. (2.9% of the transaction and $.30 per transaction). The records of all your payments are found on your PayPal account. 

• Only available in the USA for now. 
• Bump Pay is only for connecting with people standing right next to you. Although it's just an app, most people will be comparing between PayPal, Square and Google Checkout in the future when figuring out what to use for mobile payments (especially if you're a merchant). Here is a price breakdown. 

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