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?

New York, July 17, 2014

Atout France USA, France’s official tourism development and promotion agency in the USA, partnered with netomat to develop a fun social media campaign across web, tablet and mobile that followed several well-known travel bloggers as they journeyed through some of the most beautiful and culturally-rich cities in northern and southern France. The campaign, #TopFrenchCities, followed the bloggers or “travel ambassadors” as they visited Reims, Dijon and Poitiers in the North of France and Nice, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille in the South of France.

The campaign tracked and aggregated the travel ambassadors’ social media posts, beautiful photographs and amazing videos from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Google+ on the campaign website using the #TopFrenchCities campaign hashtag and city-specific campaign hashtags.

netomat was responsible for all design, development, integration, and ongoing hosting and management of this exciting, responsive design-based campaign. For more information, please contact sales@netomat.net.

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