Lifelapse bills itself as a new way to capture your life and relive all your events and experiences. It has launched two products: Lifelapse for iPhone and the Lifepouch (a cute little pouch you hang around your neck where you place your iPhone so it automatically takes photos of things happening in front of you without your intervention).

Lifelapse for the iPhone captures your life by taking a picture every 30 seconds and allowing you to share it via a one-minute video. The application launched on 28 June 2011. Ultimately, the creators of Lifelapse want to build a web platform that will use several types of data to aggregate visual memories of your day or selected events.

The founders of Lifelapse are Glenn Wolters, Jeroen Bos and Tom Klaver, who are based in Amsterdam. Below is a short Q&A with Glenn Wolters.

Q&A with Glenn Wolters, co-founder of Lifelapse

Q: What inspired you to create Lifelapse?

Jeroen Bos and I founded a schoolproject that set out to create revolutionary products that people really  needed. After several months of concept development, we got in touch with the concept of Lifelogging, capturing everything you do with the intention to learn about yourself. We explored the concept and eventually wanted to create a system that knew everything I ever did, so it could help me relive events and live a better life.

How are you making money?

We’re currently selling neck wearable pouches and the iPhone app.

Where do you see your product in a year?

We will continue the development of our web platform and in one year we will have created the basis of what we call a “Social Memory System”.

Are you self-funded?

Yes, but we are looking for angel investment to kickstart our next development cycle.

www.lifelapse.com

Swappa is different (perhaps better) than eBay in that it is entirely devoted to Android devices. It streamlines the listing and sale process. Moreover, the community is knowledgeable about the various Android devices on the market. The site uses Paypal for processing payments and may add other payment alternatives in the future.

Below is a screenshot of what you would see on Swappa if you click on the “buy” button under Motorola Droid.

www.swappa.com

Hangchillparty is an online application that allows you to tell your friends if you’re down to hang out, down to chill or unavailable. You can tell your friends where you will be later and find out where your friends are right now and at a later time. The online application launched on 20 July 2010. The founders are Drew Sing and Eric DeBusschere based in Berkeley, California. I did a Q&A with Drew via email.

How do you describe Hangchillparty and why is it different from anything already out there?

In the old days, friends constantly texted to keep each other updated on when they would hang, chill, and party. Now, Hangchillparty is the easiest way to let all your friends know when you’re free to socialize. Simply signal your socializing status with a green, yellow, or red light. That’s all. If you want, let friends know who you’re with and what you’re doing. Join social signals to create real time social groups. Facebook, Twitter, or group text your friends with Hcp. When friends hang out, they Hangchillparty.

What inspired you to launch Hangchillparty?

We are two college students who are too lazy to constantly call and text friends. Instead of having to call and text friends individually, we wanted a more casual form of communication that allowed us to simply signal when we were free to socialize. We were inspired by how little friends actually hang out, and how much they spend sitting in front of a screen by themselves. We hope people are still interested in hanging out in real life.

How are you making money (or how will you make money in the future)?

Some sort of group coupon service since we organize spontaneous groups of any size. Collaborations with companies and brands that can benefit from our site and image.

Where do you see Hangchillparty within a year?

We see it as integral part of all college socializing. When friends want to hang out, they will simply signal instead of weave through their contacts, pick who to text, and wait for a response.

Are you self-funded?

Yes, we are self-funded by part-time on campus jobs and cheap living!

www.hangchillparty.com

Go to: FaceCash: a simple, elegant mobile payment application

You download the application from the iTunes Store, set up an account (takes a few seconds), upload a photo, type in a few words about yourself. Using WiFi and Bluetooth, the EZChat iPhone app detects your location and sniffs around for other EZChat users in the area. You enter into a live chat with someone sitting a few tables away from you and hopefully, you will connect physically. The goal of the application is to help you break the ice through a virtual chat. I admit it could be a bit creepy if the guy trying to chat with me is, in fact, a creep, but I could always terminate the chat by pretending my iPhone ran out of battery life. This application also works on an iPod Touch. You don’t need a cellular connection.

Download the free EZChat application from the iTunes Apple Store here.

Q&A with founder, Ronnie Zohar

What inspired you to create EZChat?
I was waiting at JFK airport one night when I noticed a man and a woman looking straight at each other, glancing and it seemed inevitable that something would happen. Yet at the end, the woman got up, took her things and went one direction, while the man then also got up, took his things and went the other. I immediately thought of a popular song by a famous Israeli singer called “Everyday I lose a beautiful man on the street”. Something about that incident touched me and I set out to find a tool that would enable these events to run more smoothly, enabling shy people the luxury of “breaking the ice” in a cool and smooth manner.

What is the name of the company that created EZChat and when was it founded?
The name of the company is  SMART HANDS LTD. It was founded in 1989 and deals with completely different things.

Who are the founders?
Ronnie Zohar

Where is it based?
Rehovot, Israel.

How will you make money? The app is free so will you have a paid version?
The application currently does not make money. Not yet. First we need to reach a critical mass of users.

Download the EZChat application now from the iTunes Store.

Speedtext is an iPhone application that allows you to handwrite text into your iPhone. It is popular in Japan where text entry using Kanji characters is difficult. I suspect it is handy for people who write in other languages as well (e.g. Arabic). For people who find the iPhone’s virtual keyboard challenging, it is also a handy tool. It works with applications such as Evernote.

The developer is Kazuya Hirobe, who I met at the Evernote event in San Francisco last week. Kazuya is getting his Ph.D in computer science at the University of Nagoya in Japan. He told me that when it launched on the Japanese iPhone app store last summer, it became one of the top 10 applications. He is planning an iPad app.

Check out Speedtext. It costs $1.99.

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is holding a seminar in San Francisco on 8 February 2010 featuring companies who are addressing the challenges of discovery so they can share their lessons with you.  Topics will range from Advertising, Cross-selling, Social Media Marketing, Free Trial, and more. Come and learn best practices from developers and other commerce enablers who have tested and identified what drives effective discovery in the App Store.  Learn, mingle and enjoy a hosted bar!

The format will be a series of rapid fire presentations from developers including Flixster, Booyah and TripIt.

Sign up information: http://momosvfeb10.eventbrite.com/

Date: 8 February 2010, Monday

Time: 18:30 – 22:00

Price: Free

Parc 55
55 Cyril Magnin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Companies that use ZapMe utilize SMS and mobile applications for their advertising campaigns and manage them through the ZapMe distribution platform. The platform has modules for user management, content management, security and reporting. ZapMe clients get real-time information about the people who receive their ads: age, gender, geographic location, brand preference, type of mobile device, and brand patterns. Recipients of advertising from ZapMe clients can choose from among the brands represented by ZapMe, i.e. tell ZapMe from whom they would like to receive offers.

Q&A with Cameron Wall, founder of ZapMe

When did you launch ZapMe?

January 2007.

What inspired you to start ZapMe?

I wanted to solve the following problem: how does a brand and/or information service use traditional media (newspaper, magazine, TV, Outdoor, radio etc.) to engage people via the mobile channel? There are so many different handsets, platforms, operating systems, versions of firmware etc. when it comes to mobile devices that it’s difficult to make the user experience enjoyable. Moreover, it costs companies too much time and money managing their ad campaigns across a variety of mobile devices. ZapMe is a platform that can distribute content to any device at anytime on the fly, usually via simple SMS which is a standard communication method available on all handsets globally.

Where do you see ZapMe in a year?

Most powerful platform in the mobile marketing industry.

www.zapme.com.au