Scott Kveton, CEO/co-founder of Urban Airship, the company whose services take the sting out of push notification and in-app purchase — and sponsors of this site! — wrote to let me know that they’d closed a $1.1 million series-a funding round. This was rattling around in my brain along with a recent memory that Chomp, [...]
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Contest Apps Now Approved?
A year ago I wrote a slot machine app that paid out free copies of applications. App publishers would give away copies of their apps via my app because it’d expose their apps to potential customers. The odds, if I recall correctly, were such that their app and a tagline would show up 2500 or [...]
iPhone Game Rebates
I’m fond of folks who take what is, for more people, a complaint and turn it into an opportunity: It’s common to complain that apps outside of the Top Charts are invisible. There’s substance to this complaint. What’s been interesting is seeing how people turn that into an opportunity. Turning this into an opportunity is [...]
This Week in iPhone News – February 12/2010
Apple To Prohibit Location-Based Ads? A notification from Apple has been received by some developers stating that they are only to use GPS data to provide “benefitial information.” This means that if your application uses the GPS primarily to enable mobile advertising, your application will be denied from the App Store. Apple Now Lets You [...]
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Podcast: Interview With Social-App Discovery App “Chomp” Creators Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards
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 [...]
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, [...]
This Week In iPad News
When we started putting together this week’s This Week column the iPad news overshadowed everything else. So we’ve decided to dedicate this week’s column to noteworthy iPad items. As promised, Apple released an updated SDK, along with an iPad simulator, HIG, sample applications, programming guide and documentation on producing universal applications. iPad Big Picture John [...]
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iPad: What Developers Need To Know
Apple just finished their iPad event. Here’s what you’ll want to know as a developer: Jobs says the device is for, “Browsing the web. Doing email. Enjoying and sharing pics. Watching videos. Enjoying music. Playing games. Reading ebooks.” It’ll run unmodified iPhone apps out of the box in two modes: actual size, which takes up [...]
Bookmarklet As App Store Paid App
Vais Salikhov wrote to tell me about Find In Page, his newly available $0.99 app. The app isn’t. Instead, it’s a Mobile Safari bookmarklet. Confused? Allow me to explain: Mobile Safari, like any modern browser, supports bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are compact blurbs of JavaScript saved as a bookmark. When you navigate to a JavaScript bookmark the [...]
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