Chomp is a social app discovery iPhone app. It’s a bit like Yelp for the App Store. In this interview with its creators Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards we talk about the app, the momentum its building, the recommendation algorithm that makes it tick and how app developers can use it to build buzz for [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Mobile Orchard Workshops: iPhone Development For Web Programmers, Raleigh/Durham, March 24-25
I’ll be teaching our iPhone Development For Web Programmers class in Raleigh/Durham on March 24-25. The class is specifically designed to teach professional web programmers — developers who spend their days writing Java, .NET, Ruby, Python or PHP — how to build native apps for the iPhone. No prior Objective-C or Cocoa/Cocoa Touch experience required. [...]
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This Week In iPhone & iPad News – February 5/2010
How should an iPad app differ from an iPhone app? VentureBeat piece on flirting/dating app maker Skout is adapting their app All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore Objective-C client library for TweetPhoto API While other Twitter image posting providers provide REST APIs, TweetPhoto has made a native Obj-C client library available. The [...]
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Using Bump’s New API To Exchange Data Between Phones
Bump, the Y Combinator funded company that got a lot of attention last year as the Billionth App, has released an API that lets devs use Bump’s bump-to-exchange scheme for swapping data phone-to-phone in their own apps. The API is free to use unless you are generating revenue as a direct result of a bump, [...]
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