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
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.
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
If you are curious about how appazaar looks like, check this screenshots of our beta version running on an HTC Magic. The first one shows the appazaar widget containing the recommended apps. If you click on one of them, they either start directly or get installed via the Market Store. I personally like the recommendation of Photoshop and Layar
appazaar widget
The second screen shows the settings, that you reach from the main menu. They are currently pretty rudimentary as you can just start or stop the service.
start or stop the appazaar service
Check our beta version if you want to try appazaar on your mobile. If you have any ideas or feedback please let us know.
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:
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.
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.
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!