For 7 glorious days, France Tourism Canada sent six bloggers to travel through different regions of France and to capture the natural beauty of these regions. The six regions traveled to were Provence, Occitania, Bordeaux and its surroundings, Auvergne & Lyon and its surroundings, Champagne – Burgundy and the Loire Valley. The bloggers shared their experiences and adventures on social media using the hashtag #FranceNature.

netomat powered the ‘Social media boards’ that aggregated all of the posts from the different bloggers across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and displayed them on the tourism campaign website: http://ca.france.fr/en/francenature

Included in the campaign was a contest whereby contestants could enter to win 2 free tickets to France courtesy of France Tourism Canada, Rail Europe and Air France!

netomat and France Tourism Canada partnered to power their exciting new Christmas tourism social media campaign called Festive France. The English and French language campaign tracked the adventures of three travel bloggers as they toured the Loire Valley, Provence, and Evian/French Alps and aggregated all of their social media posts from Twitter, Instagram and Facebook onto French and English versions of a website dedicated to this campaign. The social media campaigned was co-sponsored and supported by Air France, Rail Europe and Accor Hotels to drive travel to France this holiday season.

The websites can be seen here:

Festive France (English)
France Festive (French)

netomat is proud to launch PixGL, its groundbreaking new Photo Effects application, in the iOS app store.

Moving Photos. PixGL v 1.0 is a simple new photo editing app for iOS that literally makes photos come to life. PixGL introduces Motion Effects, a new class of photo effects and filters which transform a single photo into a beautiful, continuously moving, video-like experience. These stunning Moving Photos stand out in an ocean of content and yet, can be produced at a tiny fraction of the time and cost of video.

Motion Effects were developed by renowned artist and software programmer, Maciej Wisniewski.

With Instagram-like simplicity, users can create and share a stunning PixGL Moving Photo or an entire album of Moving Photos in seconds. Users can also instantly share them across social networks or embed them in their blogs or web pages to tell captivating visual stories.

PixGL v1.0 introduces six FREE, elegantly simple new Motion Effects (light, mist, breeze, stardust, time-lapse and blend) that a user can apply to turn an ordinary still photo into a moving, video-like experience. Learn more at www.pixgl.com.

January 15, 2016. netomat is proud to again be the mobile partner for New York City’s hugely popular NYC Restaurant Week campaign. In partnership with NYCGO.com, the official marketing, tourism and partnership organization for the City of New York, netomat has again built, launched and hosts the 2016 Winter Restaurant Week mobile web app.

According to a NYCGO.com press release, the Winter 2016 NYC Restaurant Week which runs from January 15, 2016 through February 5, 2016 is “The Largest NYC RESTAURANT WEEK® EVER.”

The press release goes on to say the following: “NYC & Company, New York City’s official destination marketing organization, encourages visitors and New Yorkers to dine out for NYC Restaurant Week Winter 2016 at one of the record-setting 371 participating restaurants throughout the City’s five boroughs starting Monday, January 18 through February 5. Now in its 24th year, the event offers three-course prix-fixe lunches for $25 and three-course prix-fixe dinners for $38 (excluding beverages, gratuities and taxes) Mondays through Fridays, with Saturdays excluded and Sundays optional. Diners can enter the #NYCRestaurantWeek photo contest on Instagram for a chance to win a $50 gift card to select NYC restaurants.”

netomat has been NYCGO.com’s mobile partner for eight years. During that time, netomat has designed, developed and hosted the beautiful NYCGO.com mobile website as well as dozens of mobile web campaigns including Restaurant Week, Broadway Week and Off-Broadway Week (all campaigns are registered trademarks of NYCGO.com).

NYC & Company (nycgo.com) is the official marketing, tourism and partnership organization for the City of New York, dedicated to maximizing travel and tourism opportunities throughout the five boroughs, building economic prosperity and spreading the positive image of New York City worldwide.

For additional information about NYC Restaurant Week Mobile or to partner with netomat for your website, mobile web, mobile application or social media campaign, please contact us info@netomat.net.

Dear Spotliter fans – Happy New Year! Spotliter v1.2 has just been released to support iOS 9 and address issues in the app related to upgrading to the new version of iOS! So take and share lots of photos and videos with Spotliter’s unique and amazing photo and video Touch Effects on your iPhones. Check out some really cool screenshots of the Spotliter app below:

For more information, go to the Spotliter website!

Have a great 2016!
the Spotliter (and netomat) Team

Are you missing Mad Men? Well, you can now celebrate the show with a fabulous 2-course Lunch or two delicious cocktails at some great places in the city with NYCGO’s Mad Men Dining Week!. Check out the http://m.nycgo.com to see all the participating restaurants and bars, see the Mad men Dining Week menus and to make a reservation!

What a great way to discover a new hangout and for just $19.69?

Four Major Headaches Apple Fixed Shows It’s Listening To Complaints For Once

When Tim Cook took to the stage at WWDC this week you could tell something was different. Usually the keynote is dedicated to showcasing all the front-end, user-centric features of the next iOS and OS X, with the new developer tools taking a backseat at private labs during the week. But this time Cook revealed that a full third of the keynote would be dedicated to showcasing the greatest features of the iOS 8 SDK–something Cook boasted was the “biggest release since the launch of the App Store.”

It turns out that wasn’t just hyperbole. As WWDC winds to a close here are what developers told us are four of the massive changes to the iOS SDK that will make coding for it better than ever. What’s most surprising? In an uncharacteristically sympathetic way for Apple, they seem correspond to the most prevalent developer complaints. Read more

CNET’s Rick Broida published a terrific review of the Spotliter app:

Spotliter app adds real-time effects to your iOS videos
Like an Instagram for video, Spotliter Video offers a variety of very cool filters you can apply while you shoot.

With the arrival of iOS 7, iPhone and iPad users received a smattering of Instagram-style visual-effect filters for snapping photos. But they can’t be used when shooting video.

Enter Spotliter Video, a free app that provides a choice of distinctive filters for video recording. It is, quite simply, like Instagram for video, though without the integrated sharing options. Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Instagram for video? Spotliter might have the answer
Instagram has cult status now. But an app that gives similar filters for video has not yet made it big. But we suspect things could change with the launch of the new Spotliter app, created by US-based netomat.

The free app, available only on iOS for the moment, allows users to add filters to their videos and also highlight, or spotlight as they would like to call it, certain parts of the frame. There is a very good magnify filter which lets the user blow up any specific part of the frame. The size of the spot can easily be increased or reduced by pinching on the touch screen. Read more

Check out this great review of our Jollyfy personalized video recording and sharing app: Social video sharing app adds SuperBowl themes