Tradyo is an iOS application that lets you trade locally with others users of the app. You can easily use the app to look for latest deals being offered in your neighborhood or in nearby places. You can put up your own deals as well and accept money or bartering – your choice. When you find somebody to deal with, you can communicate with them, negotiate terms, and quickly set up the deal.

If you find that a particular user offers deals you are generally interested in, you can follow their deals through the app and stay updated with whatever they are offering in the future.

Features:

• A user-friendly application.
• Compatible with iOS devices.
• Lets you trade locally.
• Lets users chat with one another.
• Similar tools: SwapMeSports, Swappa, eCampus and LifeSta.

Check out Tradyo @ www.tradyo.com (via TheNextWeb) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Giftly is a web service that lets you buy, send, and use online gift cards. The way the site works is very convenient for the user. You start by purchasing gift cards online and selecting up to 3 different places that the card can be used at. These places can be any place that Yelp has listed. For ideas about what to get a gift card for, you can browse the site’s Ideas section.

The person who uses the gift card then visits any one of the 3 places on the card and uses the app to use the card. Their geographical location is detected from their phone and after a little service charge, the money is sent to a registered credit card number or a PayPal account.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Makes it easier to create and use gift cards.
• Lets you select up till 3 different places for a single card.
• Sends money to credit cards as well as PayPal accounts.
• Similar tools: Cardnap, CardHub Gift Card Exchange, Snoopf and CardPool.

Check out Giftly @ www.giftly.com (via Gigaom) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Choptag may just be like any comparison website, but it offers more than enough to provide shoppers insight on what to buy. You can browse for things like bikes, goggles, shirts, surfboards, rackets, tents, and more. You can also read the expert guides as well as items that they have field tested for the readers. The homepage also show hot and new products, and a list of gear use by your favorite athletes. Finally, you can filter items by price range, discounts, stores, merchants, and brands.

Choptag is a nice resource for a frictionless shopping experience that will be most useful for athletes of all levels and sports.

Features

• Comparison shopping for sports wear and equipment.
• Browse list of top athletic produce recommended by magazines and experts.
• Designed to bring you products to give you cutting-edge advantage over competitors.
• Compare merchants.
• Use search page to find product.
• Read guides.
• View daily deals.

GeekAPhone is a free to use website that lets you find a phone best suited to your preferences. You can start by specifying your budget and any phone platform you prefer. A list of top phones will be presented that can be easily filtered using the features you select from the top row of buttons. The best phone is displayed on the left pane while the remaining phones in the list, ordered according to their suitability, are shown on the right.

The site also provides you with phone specifications, videos, and best prices for a phone across the Internet.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you find the best phone for you.
• Lets you set numerous preferences.
• Provides phone specs, videos, and best prices.
• Similar tools: Google Phone Gallery, PhoneFinder and Amazon Wireless.

Check out GeekAPhone @ www.geekaphone.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

NoBrainerSites is a wonderful web service that lists WordPress websites for sale. Along with their domain name, each site is accompanied by its keywords, monthly searches for it, cost per click, and competition levels.

Sites you like can be instantly purchased through PayPal. NoBrainerSite also offers free domain push to your GoDaddy account and free hosting for up to 30 days if required.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you search for WordPress websites for sale.
• Includes site stats such as ds, monthly searches for it, cost per click, and competition levels.
• Sites can be purchased through PayPal.
• Offers free domain push to your GoDaddy account.
• Provides free hosting for up-to 30 days if required.
• Similar tool: Flippa.
• Also read related articles:
• How To Value Your Blog Or Website To Sell It (Part one)
• How To Value Your Blog Or Website To Sell It (Part Two)

Check out NoBrainerSites @ www.nobrainersites.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

So how does a customer pay through SMS with this tool? Simple – once the pricing is set up, you can direct customers to SMS a command to your number and trigger the transaction. The customers will then be charged through their cellphone bill or phone credit, and you then get the money from Paypal, Moneybookers or any other payment method you set. You can set up different pricing based on the country the buyer is in, which they claim will meet all current regulations for all countries where the service is available.

Recursos Moviles also lets you run SMS marketing campaigns for direct conversion to sales. For example, you can generate marquee ads that you can easily embed in your website. They also have an auto-responder for inquiries and promotions.

But the strongest feature this tool offers is SMS to email. This allows you to receive SMS from users to your email and then respond to it quickly. You can also use the emails during broadcasts, much like when people text in their opinions and answers to a radio or TV show. You can create news buzz, a voting system, and individual support with this feature.

So if you are looking to start SMS marketing on-the-fly, you can try this out. SMS marketing offers a level of flexibility and a wider reach not found in smartphones allowing you to position yourself better over the competition. Recursos Moviles is especially useful for countries that have a high rate of SMS usage or in markets where micropayments makes sense.

Features:

• SMS micropayment service for businesses.
• Integrates services that works well with several payment methods.
• SMS auto-responder.
• SMS to email.
• Marquee ads.
• Available in Spanish or English.
• Monitor SMS campaigns.
• Monitor earnings.

Check out Recursos Moviles @ www.recursosmoviles.com

The Reward Card Wallet works by integrating with other services like Groupon and Living Social. Users will get alerts when they come close to a merchant with a deal published in Reward Card Wallet. In addition, users can collect and store digital loyalty cards to save money while shopping in their favorite store.

This app uses either push notifications or location-based SMS to broadcast deals to Reward Card Wallet users, reminding them that there is a great deal nearby.

Reward Card Wallet users will only need to show the stored barcode representing a specific loyalty card. Then the cashier scans the barcode on the screen to verify and add points to the loyalty card. This means you can have hundreds of loyalty cards in your phone without ever losing them.

Reward Card Wallet is a very useful tool for any business owner looking to promote through the mobile web. It also helps people looking for the next big bargain in a snap, increasing sales and branding for the merchant while providing great convenience to smart shoppers.

Features:

• Helps business push location based deals for mobile users.
• Shoppers get to find deals near their area.
• Alerts for users who are within the area of the merchant.
• Loyalty card provide users great discounts.
• Store hundreds of digital loyalty cards and never lose them.
• Push notification and SMS broadcast available for location aware phones.
• Available only in the United States.

Check out Reward Card Wallet @ www.sundropmobile.com/index.php/sundrop-mobile-products/reward-card-wallet

So how does this work? You need to first create a MobiCart application by picking a color theme. Then choose the tabs that you want to have in your app. You can also add up to two more pages, your own Terms and Privacy Pages, as well as an About Us and Contact Us page.

Toggle the Store Settings to change your store name, currency, order email address, and your Paypal address. You can also set your shipping cost, and tax rate. The App Vitals are important to prepare your store before it is submitted to Apple’s App Store. Here you need to set the app name, app price, and the territories where you want your app to be available. You also get to upload your own app icon and loader image to give your store your own branding.

With your own iOS app running, you can now create your store by adding departments and products. You can also edit pages to provide more information about your website and even News and Twitter feeds so that you can give clients fresh content.

You can also check out the MobiCart addons such as Twitter and the Paypal payment gateway to enhance your mobile store. If you have a website already, you can also use the Mobicart API to update your mobile app from your website.

MobiCart works only with iOS devices for now with a planned release for Blackberry and Google Android. Being that it is free and the fact that you do not need to have a website to add products, there is great value for people who want to set up their mobile store on the fly.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

• Create your own mobile store app.
• Free and easy to set up.
• Submits your app to Apple App Store.
• Currently works with iOS; Blackberry and Android to follow.
• Addons for your app enhances your store’s funcionality.
• Add pages, news and Twitter feed for a content-rich app.
• Set the app’s appearance and branding.

Check out MobiCart @ www.mobi-cart.com

Venmo is a web service with a wonderful concept behind: it lets friends SMS text money transfer each other. Here is how it works: you create an account on the Venmo website; next you select your smartphone type such as iPhone or BlackBerry; then you link your bank account or credit card to your Venmo account.

After all that is done, you can connect your friends’ Venmo accounts to your own and then pay or charge your friends. Your account history is given a “˜social’ touch by making it visible in a payment stream; this way your friends can view to whom you have paying or charging and for what.

You can also categorize some of your friends as “trusted” contacts; this will auto-approve the transactions and notify you of them.

Features:

• A great service to facilitate casual payments between friends.
• Link up your bank account or credit card with your account.
• Highly secure.
• Provides a “trusted contacts” category that automatically approves transactions.

Check out Venmo @ www.venmo.com

Grocery iQ is a barcode based grocery list maker for Android and iOS devices. The app aims to help you build grocery lists with ease. You can add items to your lists manually but the preferable, more convenient way is to scan the barcode of something you ran out of. The barcode will be matched against the app’s grocery database; when the product is found, it will be added to your list.

Another feature of Grocery iQ is list sharing. Two Grocery iQ users can share their lists with one another if they have the app running on their respective devices. So if your friend is shopping for groceries, you can use Grocery iQ to quickly let him know what to bring back for you.

Features:

• Barcode based grocery list creator.
• A user friendly smartphone app.
• Supports Android and iOS devices.
• Helps add items to lists manually or by scanning their barcodes.
• Lets you share your lists with other app users.
• Similar tools: Grocist and BeQRious.

Check out “Grocery iQ” @ www.groceryiq.com (via Consumerist) (by MOin from ThumbPress)