Location-based mobile gaming and social check-in platform SCVNGR has been busy this Summer. The Boston-based startup launched a sophisticated SCVNGR Rewards program with shoe retailer Journeys and is partnering with rail ticketing startup Quno in Britain. ‘We went well beyond where Fou ...

New York-based personalized recommendation engine SpotOn plans to release its iPhone app next month. SpotOn wants to be for new places to go “what Last.fm and Pandora is for music” according to co-founder Gauri Manglik.

Eventros helps people connect at business events. Founder Simon Kirk also does business development for the Universal Record Database.

Ogmento founder Ori Inbar was chair of the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara in June and organizes a successful monthly augmented reality meetup in New York. Educating the market can push AR-technology further. "The information is already there," says Inbar. "Presenting it in a way that is easy to consume is the challenge of application level development."

New Jersey-based development team Onederr took the no-nonsense approach to the data sets New York City provided for the BigApps Competition. NYC Way is the most comprehensive app in the competition and a clear popular favorite.