December 17th, 2008 |
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For 2008, I set a goal for myself. I wanted to speak at Web Visions and the Velocity Conference. Other than internal and client presentations, I didn’t have much to point to as a history of public speaking to warrant anyone granting me an audience.
Looking back on the year, I’m surprised with how radically different this year was from previous years. By my count, I spoke at 11 events this year:
I guess I can check that goal off my list as completed. Now about that regular exercise and diet…
December 17th, 2008 |
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December 16th, 2008 |
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Rubicon Consulting has surveyed iPhone users, and found that half of iPhone users are shifting away from using a laptop computer. 28% said they "strongly agree" with that statement.
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"browser-based content is now accessed by more people using a mobile phone than using a PC on the planet. There are 1.02 billion people who access the internet on a mobile phone versus 950 million personal computers connected to the internet."
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YQL is a SQL-style language to get information from all kind of web services…What about screenscraping? You can get data from any valid HTML document using XPATH with select * from html.
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You have to watch the video for this one. The ad really is innovative.
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Simple text file similar to robots.txt used to point search engines (and hopefully browsers) to the correct versions of sites (e.g., mobile vs. pc)
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Back when I used to do a lot of design, I would have devoured these. So pretty.
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Not really an iPhone App, but I'm happy to have some place to point people who ask what happened to the Obama app.
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Great MMS personalized advertising campaign that turned ~$60k into $45 million in revenue
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Inside each letter are open circles where no ink is used. When used in a 9 - 11 point size, the font doesn't stand out as different, but if used in larger point sizes, the circles become obvious. For the occasional printed page though, the font works as well as any other and the company claims that it uses 20 percent less ink.
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Innovative advertising campaign that uses 3d barcodes and the phone camera to overlay art, graffiti, and 3d images of cars on physical spaces.
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A detailed look at the marketing and revenue of an iPhone application. Speaks to the App Store's marketing mix.
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Gold rush stories
December 15th, 2008 |
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December 15th, 2008 |
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Business, Mobile
In case you missed it, there’s been some great discussion lately about the iPhone App Store and the drive towards 99 cent applications. In particular, whether or not this pressure for lower prices will allow developers to make enough money off of more complex applications.
I’m happy to see this discussion starting. More than a few of the conversations I’ve had recently have been with people who seem to have unrealistic expectations about the iPhone App Store. I’ve talked to many people who must have an iPhone app without a real business case or logic for it.
That’s not to say that people can’t be successful with the App Store nor that there aren’t really interesting and exciting things happening in the market. It just feels a little out of balance.
I’m going to write more about this in much more detail later and am planning on making this part of my presentation topics for the coming year. However, I wanted to make sure people were following this conversation. So here are some of the better articles on the topic:
December 15th, 2008 |
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Videos and information on input masks.
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Making text fields easier for people to input structured information (e.g., phone numbers)
December 13th, 2008 |
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December 12th, 2008 |
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