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Make custom rubber stamps of your face (or anything else) with Stamp Yo Face!

Stamp Yo Face! is a company that makes custom rubber stamps bearing your likeness. You can then stamp letters, letterheads & stationary, documents & any kind of paper you fancy with it.

It’s very simple – you send them a picture & they hand-draw a portrait using the picture. This hand-drawn portrait is then used to make a custom rubber stamp.

For US $65, Stamp Yo Face! will send you custom rubber stamps not just of your face, but virtually anything you want. You can send them a photo of your pet, or ask for a rubber stamp as a couple ($100) so you’ll have two mugshots on the stamp.

rubber stampsYou can seek a gift certificate from them, so that people you gift it to can then get their own custom rubber stamps made.

You can also get a stamp of a custom object like a dog bone, thumb up/down, donut, pizza slice, etc. You can get a small quote bubble, where the portrait appears to be saying something. Apart from the actual rubber stamp, they also send you the hand-drawn portrait, the digital file of the portrait & an ink pad. In other words, you’re ready to start stamping yo face both Online & offline.

Right now, though, these guys are right in the middle of the Christmas rush, so don’t expect overnight delivery. It can take up to 8 weeks for Stamp Yo Face to fulfill your order. They will send you the hand-drawn portrait first, so that you know how the stamp will look like before it is made.

The Wichita, Kansas, US-based Stamp Yo Face! was launched in Feb 2014 by Hannah Scott & Kevin Wildt. Hannah is an art student at Wichita State University, & the one who will be hand drawing the portraits from your pictures. Kevin handles the production, Website & shipping part of the business.

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Batch Insights aggregates & tracks mobile push notifications data

Batch Insights is a new Online tool for mobile developers & other marketers that aggregates mobile push notifications & lets users search & filter through the flood of data to find what they need.

There are billions of mobile push notifications sent every day to people all over the world, & the data in these messages will show you exactly how each company is marketing its products & services. The problem, of course, is that it’s really hard to mine Big Data if you’re a small business or mobile developer making apps in your basement.

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Thus, the kind of computing resources you’d need to collect information about your competitors & filter mobile push notifications based on your keyword queries would take your IT investment to a whole new level. You could individually monitor the messages being put out by all your competitors by installing their apps & reading every notification by each competitor, but you still won’t be able to search through the billions of notifications floating around. Besides, installing & watching your all competitors’ apps will consume a whole lot of time or manpower, & it still won’t provide you with industry-wide insights.

It’s far easier when you can just sign up & create an account with Batch Insights & run your queries, track specific competitors & seek inspiration for your own marketing ideas from all the push notifications you see.

What’s intriguing is that they’re also coming up with an API, which should enable a lot of mobile developers to use the push notification data & create more specific industry-based apps.

Also note that this is the 1st product release for mobile developers from the team at Batch.com – a domain name that boosts their prospects a lot. The company plans to release more such analytics tools under this domain for mobile developers.

Batch Insights was founded in Nov 2014 by the same Paris, France-based team that founded Appgratis. Simon Dawlat is Batch.com CEO, with Sylvain Ramousse & Antoine Guénard as co-founders. The team has raised US $13.5 million for Appgratis in Series A funding in Jan 2013.

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