AppStoreGems Launches: Donating Today’s Revenue to Charities.

Today, a group of iPhone developers has launched a site called “AppStoreGems. AppStoreGems is the result of a brainstorming session between John Casasanta, and Austin Sarner. They got a few other iPhone devs together, and bought a print ad in Macworld, which came out today. For launch day, the devs of AppStoreGems are donating all of their revenue today to charity.

There are 6 apps that are a part of the AppStoreGems site right now, from 5 developers. The apps are as follows:

1. Sketches
2. Where To?
3. Groceries
4. FileMagnet
5. Kineo
6. Pennies

Each developer is donating their revenue to a different charity, from the following list:

• Prevent Cancer Foundation
• UNICEF
• Oxfam International
• Teach for America
• American Humane

John Casasanta posted a blog post to the taptaptap website detailing this event, and the AppStoreGems website. Personally, I think it is great when developers get together and hold an event like this. The developers get exposure for their application, and charities benefit in the process.

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