Banjo Recognized in Google Play and iTunes

In addition to the incredible reception Banjo 3.0 has received from our members, we are pleased to announce that Banjo was named Top Developer and Featured App in Google Play as well as a featured app in iTunes.

Banjo is featured on Google Play’s headline billboard on the homepage of the Android Apps and is listed under the Featured Social Network category. It’s the first app seen when Android users open the Google Play store on their phone.

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Banjo Announces Version 3.0

We are incredibly proud and excited to announce that Banjo just released a completely redesigned app that is faster, lighter and altogether slicker than anything we’ve developed before! 

The Banjo team has been working around the clock on improving your favorite social app listening to your feedback the entire way. The new design includes a personal homepage where you can quickly and easily find your friends’ updates in one global feed. Below that, we’ve created Personalized Places, which are destinations populated for you based on where your friends and connections are in the world right now.

Another new feature we’re excited to announce is Common Connections: Your friend feed now surfaces the Common Connections people share across the most popular social networks in real time. This allows you to see people within one degree of separation to you from across the entire social graph! With one small step for Banjo, and one gigantic leap for technology, Banjo made the world a smaller place. 

All the existing Banjo features we know you love are still there including chat, posting to all your social networks from one place, and notifications when a friend is nearby. Search remains a key component to the app; search any place in the world to see what’s happening, then filter by keyword to dive deeper into the conversations that matter to you. 

Perhaps the best part of the app is the speed with which you can now navigate around the locations that matter most to you. In a blink of an eye, Banjo members can travel the world. Never again miss out on a place an event you care about. Banjo takes you there!

We hope you enjoy the all-new Banjo! Please tell us what you think and don’t forget to rate us 5 stars!

Banjo is available for iOS and Android.

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Damien Speaks at SXSW: Privacy in a Location Based World

Banjo is pleased to announce that Damien Patton, founder and CEO, will be speaking at SXSW 2013.

Damien’s talk will focus on privacy in a location based world. Location is enormously important to the future of mobile; it creates a new layer of relevance for social, giving context to our posts and photos, and helps us discover the world around us. The success of the Location Based Services (LBS) industry relies on the trust of the public and their willingness to use our services.

While Banjo strives to add value to our users through LBS, we can’t overstep our privacy boundaries in the ways we collect and share user data. With a growing number of LBS-engaged users, developers need to stop treating privacy as a dirty word, and start discussing it openly, approaching it head on. The industry is overdue for a frank, open discussion about where privacy stands, and how the industry must improve.

Look for Damien’s speech at this forthcoming SXSW March 8-12.

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Banjo Takes a Tour of Fox News

During Banjo’s most recent visit to New York City during Social Week, the team had the distinct pleasure of meeting with and taking a tour of FOX News Channel headquarters.

Upon arrival to 1211 Avenue of the Americas, the team was whisked through security and up the elevators to the office of Robert Gray. Robert, a general assignment business news reporter for FOX Business News, led Banjo through multiple floors of the News Corporation building including the studios where Fox & Friends and other shows are filmed. The team was also able to peek into the offices of The Wall Street Journal.

The main purpose of the visit was to update FOX Business News on the latest version of the Banjo app that makes it the ultimate reporting tool. Since Banjo’s “Places” feature has the ability to take users anywhere in the world, news organizations are using the app to access a real time feed with information sourced from across the social graph.

In fact, FOX News was one of the first media owners to use the tool for this purpose, back in September during the iPhone 5 release.

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