Oceanhouse Media has an enviable track record: For almost the entire lifetime of the App Store they’ve consistently had a handful of apps in the top-100. Their apps beat the averages for both volume and unit price; in fact, they won’t build an app unless they can sell five to ten thousand units at $4 [...]
Podcast Interview With Oceanhouse Media Brands And Their Impact On Volume and Price
by Dan Grigsby on 22. Feb, 2010 in Interviews, News, Podcast, Tips
Podcast: Interview With Social-App Discovery App “Chomp” Creators Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards
by Dan Grigsby on 08. Feb, 2010 in News, Podcast
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 [...]
Best App Ever Podcast
by Dan Grigsby on 25. Jan, 2010 in Interviews, News, Podcast
The Best App Ever podcast episode. Features interviews with: Jeff Scott, creator of the Best App Ever Awards and founder of 148Apps; and people-behind-the-nominees segments with Garret Murray, creator of the aptly named Ego app; and Yuanzhen Li and Michael Parker creators of the TrueHDR photography app. For easy scanning of the interview, here’s what [...]
Podcast Interview: Flurry’s Merger w. Pinch, App Circle, comScore and the Google Phone
by Dan Grigsby on 11. Jan, 2010 in Interviews, Podcast
It’s been a busy month for Flurry: A couple of days before Christmas, Flurry and Pinch Media, the two best known names in iPhone analytics, merged. In the first days of the new year they announced a partnership with the audience measurement company comScore. During all of this, Flurry’s been running a beta AppCircle, their [...]
Podcast: Henry Balanon + Panel Discussion On Marketing
by Dan Grigsby on 07. Dec, 2009 in Podcast, Resources
Henry Balanon is part of the writing team for Giga Om’s The Apple Blog and co-founder of the iPhone app development shop Bickbot. This podcast features Henry’s speech on iPhone marketing and the panel discussion he organized for his segment at the 360iDev conference. Henry’s speech is filled with goodies, including glimpses into how sites [...]
Podcast Interview With iPhone Wax Creator Corey Johnson
by Dan Grigsby on 17. Nov, 2009 in Interviews, Podcast, Resources
This interview is with Corey Johnson, creator of iPhone Wax. iPhone Wax is an open-source project that lets developers build native CocoaTouch based applications using Lua. Lua’s an expressive scripting language with dynamic language features familiar to Ruby and Python developers. The interview includes content on iPhone Wax’s genesis, the Lua language, embedding and bridging [...]
Supersized 360iDev Podcast, Feat: Chris Heintz, Mike Clark, Jessica Kahn, Jake Behrens, Peter Bakhirev
by Dan Grigsby on 02. Nov, 2009 in Interviews, Podcast
The final of our two 360iDev conference podcasts, this episode features interviews with: Chris Heintz of Triple Point PR – 01:00 – The PR story behind geoDefense, targeting “previews and reviews,” developer as PR voice, picking a PR agency, how you pay for PR, how an indie beat Madden and I Am T-Pain. Mike Clark [...]
Supersized 360iDev Podcast, Feat: Matt Drance, Kendall Gelner and Greg Yardley
by Dan Grigsby on 19. Oct, 2009 in Interviews, Podcast
This podcast, the first of two, features interviews with speakers/presenters from the 360iDev conference. I speak with: Matt Drance — 01:00 — Matt left Apple, where he worked as an evangelist and one of the primary planners for WWDC, to found Bookhouse, an iPhone application development firm. Matt gave the opening keynote at the conference. [...]
Podcast: Warm, Clothed and Fed: Developer Run iPhone Businesses
by Dan Grigsby on 05. Oct, 2009 in Podcast, Resources
Keep my kids warm, clothed & fed: Beginning iPhone Programming Class: Portland/OR Nov12-13 & Los Angeles/CA Nov19-20. Only $799 w. early reg and “mo” discount code. This episode of the podcast is a little different than usual: there’s no guest. Instead, it’s the audio from a speech I gave last week at the 360iDev conference [...]
Podcast Interview: Marcus Zarra / Core Animation
by Dan Grigsby on 21. Sep, 2009 in Interviews, Podcast, Resources
Marcus Zarra is a well known Mac and iPhone developer and blogger at Cocoa Is My Girlfriend. He’s the author of several books, including Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development due out in early 2010. He’s also one of the speakers at the upcoming Voices That Matter iPhone Conference in Boston [...]
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