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We have released a new version of our app recommender system. Install the latest version by scanning the QR code or downloading from Android Market.
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New version released
Yesterday we already upgraded our server with a new algorithm for running the recommender system, and today we are happy to release a new version of the app to the market. The most prominent feature is the screen with the recommendations. We listened to your feedback – many many thanks for that – and today we are happy to release to most demanded feature: appazaar now provides its recommendations within the app. So, if you don’t like it, you don’t need to use the widget anymore.
Please keep going on giving us feedback! We really like to meet your requirements for a perfect app recommender. For the next release, we are planning to re-design the UI and provide some smaller features to round up the recommender system.
You can use this QR-tag to download the new version of appazaar.
New version (finally) available
Hey there, we got some good news for you 
While you’ve been looking for new apps using the lastest version of appazaar, we baked a new version with a lot of improvements and integrated a lot of your feedback as well as our own ideas into it! And now, after a long time of testing, it is finally available in the Market 
This is what the new mobile app looks like:
This are our changes in detail:
- “What are you just doing?”: Our recommendations are now tailored to your activity! Just answer the question and tell us something about your current activity to get the right apps.
- Tags for your activity: So far you had to insert free text to describe your activity. Now you can use tags to describe your current context more quickly. And in addition you can now connect appazaar with Facebook! The tags you insert into the widget are directly posted to your status on Facebook
- Blacklist: An app recommendation appears all the time and you don’t like it? Now you’re able to get rid of it by adding apps to a blacklist which can be edited within the settings.
- Scrolling: You are now able to scroll through our recommendations from page to page directly within the widget. We think, this is a good tradeoff between widget size and the number of recommendations. What do you think?
- Battery usage (GPS): Moritz did a really great job to improve the performance and battery usage. Nevertheless, for now we can not completely abandon the use of GPS positioning. Specially in areas with bad wireless/wifi coverage or insufficient accuracy appazaar falls back on gps positioning. There are already some more ideas in the pipeline to reduce this further and we’re confident to be able to minimize the usage of GPS further with the upcoming versions!
So just update appazaar or download it via the Market Store and let us know what you think about it
(If you experience some issues after updating, please try a clean reinstall before submitting a bugreport!)
appazaar 0.6b is out in the Market Store!
After a lot of work during the last week are proud to release the new version! We worked a lot on the power consumption and performance but we also changed the layout Take a look yourself and be prepared for the upcoming 0.7 for which we’re already giving a tiny preview in this release! We hope you like the new version! Please let us know if you have troubles with it or any ideas to improve it!
Changelog:
*new layout
*less battery usage
*less gps usage
*performance tweaks
appazaar 0.6 in the Market
The week since the official release in the Market Store was pretty interesting for us. We got a lot of different feedback and now we’re proud to release another update. As we implemented some major changes we increased the version number to 0.6 and hope that it’ll make appazaar even more useful and less buggy
The changelog is pretty short but I can assure you that it was a lot of work:
* performance issues
* navigating with trackball
appazaar Beta 2 released to the Market
Today is a big day for us as we just released the second beta to the Market Store. So from now on you guys will get every update directly and I guess there’ll be some during the next days
We also would like you to give us detailed feedback if you feel like it. As this is still a beta feedback is important for us to be able to continue developping appazaar with respect to your ideas! So don’t hesitate if something is bothering you or you have an idea on your mind
Since the first beta we improved appazaar a lot but the most significant changes for you will be these:
* context tags: You now have the possibility to describe your current situation with a few words like “home, lunch” or “working” to improve the quality of the recommendations.
* less traffic: We reduced the traffic a lot with zipping everything and scaling the icons down. So there is less data to commit!
* recommending: On the server side we’re now using different algorithms that still need to be trained more, but that already should recommend more interesting apps for you.
Happy new year & new appazaar version soon
We hope you all had a good start of 2010 and just want to let you know that we’re not lazy at all! The next and improved version of appazaar will be released soon and by soon we mean before the end of the month
It’ll offer some new features, including so called “context tags” and a better recommendation system on the server side. We also improved the performance and worked on the battery usage. And… well, we’ll let you know about all the details once we finished working and are ready to release
Oh and I shouldn’t forget to mention that we’re also planning on releasing the upcoming version in the Android Market Store as well!
Stay tuned
First beta release
We got it! The first beta release of appazaar is ready for shipping. You can install the app on your Android mobile by simply following these steps:
- Open the browser on your phone and point it to http://www.appazaar.net/beta.apk
- A short download and installation process will start.
- After the installation, you will have a new entry in your menu. The icon brings you to the settings of appazaar, which are currently pretty rudimental as you can just start or stop the service.
- Start the appazaar service from these settings. Please be aware, that from this moment we log your application usage and your location. You find more information about that logging in the FAQ-Section of this page. In case you don’t want us to log, you can simply disable the service by stopping it but don’t forget that the base for our recommendation system is the analysis of the data we are logging.
If you have further questions, please feel free to write a comment or contact us via mail! - For the full experience, please add the appazaar widget to your desktop.
What is appazaar doing?
The short answer: appazaar is the last.fm for mobile apps
Once the appazaar-widget is started it will recommend you apps from the Market Store. If you want to know how we know what to recommend, take a short look at the FAQ and the About appazaar page!
Please be aware, that this is a beta version. However, we really want to integrate your ideas and feedback into our appazaar. Please leave comments here in the blog, join our group on Facebook or send us mails to mail@appazaar.net.
Become a beta tester
We are currently wrapping things up to release a first version of appazaar. If you are interested in testing this beta version and you want to be one of the first users, please use this form to register.