PennApps

Meet Smart compares you to others who have checked in to the same foursquare location based on social networks, and matches you to someone you don't know who you might have a connection to.

A webapp for checking the laundry machines in your dorm. If none are free, it'll notify you when the next machine is available.

We developed an application so that people could open it up, and, based on their GPS location and a list of Foursquare locations, leave either text, a photo, a song, or a voice message at that specific place. So basically, geo-cache a message/feeling for either the next random person, or a specific list of friends.

CustomFood.org Food Truck Locator is a web-based app and is functional for any platform with a browser. It works best with phones that support Google Maps (iPhone and Android). Check out some of the best Food Trucks on campus. Get info about them. Click around and check out Bui's on 38th and Spruce. The demo is functional so you can place an order with Bui's using email to SMS texting.

Have you ever had your phone go off, embarrassingly, in the middle of class or a very important meeting? The Droid Silencer helps you prevent these situations by automatically updating your ringer setting (vibrate, silent, and normal) based on your calendar events and GPS locations! Because it runs in the background, you don't need to worry about forgetting to change settings ever again!

Have you ever wished that you could discover all the mysteries of the human race? Well, now you can learn a respectable chunk of them with FactSnap! Just point your phone at a barcode to get a random fact! Every product has its own category of facts. Do you think you can collect all the truth in the world? Let’s find out!

DroidXtend turns your phone into an interactive 3D controller to manipulate objects on a computer.

Friendly Planning gives users the ability to input where they will be in the future, to make it easier to meet friends in other places around the world.

Instantly Together helps you find others who are interested in doing the same things you are. Never eat lunch alone again!

MemBrain is a "smart" audio recorder application which only saves what you want it to hear. The program works by taking calibrating to the ambient audio level and only recording when it detects noise above that threshold. It's perfect for times when you don't have the ability to repeatedly press the stop and record button.

TagTanium is technologically aided hide and seek. This time, the seeker has a new ally: your phone. At random intervals your phone will be "pinged" by sending the seeker your current location and you a notification. If you don't move, the seeker will quickly get in range and press his (or her) phone's tag button to take you out of the game. If you don't know anyone who wants to play, you can explore the public games and select one to join!

Biblioteka can be seen as the "Penn's Google Maps for Books." You can search for books through our Android or web app, and it will browse and display the results from the Penn Libraries, Penn Bookcenter, Amazon, and JStor. Furthermore, clicking on book results from the Penn libraries will bring up an image of where exactly in the library the book is, and using our default map option will bring up a google map of where the book can be found on Penn campus.

SpontLight prevents awkward conversation by ensuring that the people we connect you to are interested in talking about the same things as you. Simply input a couple of conversation topics, and be ready to talk to people around you with similar interests.

Our app serendipitously leads you to a party (via an arrow and GPS) in a specified college network such as Penn at Drexel. Check in at the party when its sweet and check out when it sucks and we'll give you another party location. The app's algorithm in the cloud will never lead you to a party that's dying out.

DJFeed allows you to influence the party's music by voting for upcoming songs and rating previously played songs giving DJs instant feedback.

Want2Join.me is a mobile app that lets you plan spontaneous events with your friends. It combines texting, calling, and the Internet to make event planning all the simpler for you.

MEEPME is a fun, free SMS based, hyper-local, flirting application. When a venue hosts a MEEPME event, their space instantly transforms into a host for the most state-of-the-art, anonymous chatting platform to date. Using cloud communication technology powered by Twilio, MEEPME allows participants to anonymously text other participants in a venue, using a unique number assigned to all participants and displayed on their clothing.

Tag Along is an application that notifies you when one of the items on your to-do list matches that of your friends, so that you can connect and share some time with them (or also find someone who can do stuff you need for you)... With Tag Along you will be able to share your to-do lists, get location-based suggestions of where to go if you happen to have common items on your lists, and even pay your friends for doing stuff for you!

HypUp aims to present a previously unexplored paradigm in social networking. While services like Facebook and foursquare approach social networking through people and locations respectively, we decided to try a different approach. HypUp is an event-based look at social networking. Please see HypUp.com for details

Placebook is a new kind of social networking app. Combining the power of Facebook and Foursquare, this revolutionary app allows you to see everyone who is at a certain location and connect with them. Say you're at a bar, you can see everyone else (and their Facebook page) in that bar, private message them, write on the public 'wall', invite others to join an 'activity', and much more.

Can't decide what to order for lunch? Let a stranger choose for you! Decider lets you anonymously ask and answer fun questions. Text a question to (267) 702 - 4936 or chat serendipity@tropo.im in this format: What's my lunch? tuna # ham # pb&j

Lightwave allows students and people in lectures and conferences to have back-channel communication easily and efficiently. It's like a local IRC channel!