Product development - Strategy - Mobile applications - Examples
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Any crowded city or neighborhood can carry with it a paradoxical sense of isolation for its denizens. The ‘Elephant Home’ app for the iPhone is an attempt to start a dialogue between neighbors that may otherwise go unspoken. Using the geo-location capabilities of the device, the app creates hyper-local chat rooms for posting messages that only your neighbors can read. Seen something suspicious in the neighborhood? Send out an alert to validate your paranoia.
App Puts The ‘Neighbor’ Back In Neighborhood - PSFK
Why mobile app success is more than just download numbers | VentureBeat
This discussion about mobile economy is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26 . We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of the day, which, if solved, can lead to much faster growth in the industry. And at our mobile “economy” session, we’ll talk about how monetization of mobile needs to move beyond just advertising, and we’ll have executives at table from the most important players, including Verizon, AT&T, Google, Zynga, Facebook Yahoo, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and many more.
We are approaching the end of another year and this is always the perfect time to recall what happened during the last 12 months. The web world is always lunching new and interesting stuff. It’s actually so many things that sometimes is hard to keep track of it.
50 Best Web Apps of 2010 | Webification
Voici un dossier qui comblera les nouveaux convertis à l'iPhone et les autres qui seraient passés à côté des applications incontournables. Une sélection des meilleures apps gratuites et payantes pour iPhone dans les principales catégories. C'est un véritable champ des possibles qui s'ouvre aux possesseurs du smartphone d'Apple, avec une bibliothèque approchant actuellement les 400 000 applications ! Il est tout simplement impossible que vous ne trouviez pas une application qui ait du sens à vos yeux...
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The 20 hottest startups in mobile battle it out at MobileBeat 2010 | VentureBeat (Build 20100722155716)
On July 12, San Francisco becomes a mobile battleground as the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition takes off. The prize: Two of VentureBeat’s coveted Tesla Awards. Twenty contenders have emerged as finalists from a field of more than 200 nominees. You, our readers, singled out Snaptu and Aava Mobile as favorites in an online poll, earning them finalist spots in the application and service categories respectively. MobileBeat’s advisory panel picked eighteen others which will present their winning ideas in front of mobile influencers, investors and press at the MobileBeat 2010 conference, which takes place at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on July 12-13.
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More New York City announced the winners of its second BiggApps competition tonight. BiggApps is a way to get developers to use city and government data to create useful apps for citizens and visitors to New York City. The prize money was doubled to $40,000 split up among 14 winning apps.
NYC Announces BigApps Winners Roadify, Sportaneous, And DontEat.at
Plenty of writers have weighed in on who was the true winner at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, which wrapped up in Austin last week. Now the team behind a mobile question-and-answer app called Opinionaided is joining the debate. How did Opinionaided choose the most popular apps at SXSW? It asked its users about their impressions of each service.
Opinionaided declares Instagram and Foodspotting the best-loved apps of SXSW | VentureBeat
Labelbox - How we got 1 million downloads in the App Store within 25 days - Stepcase
So 1 Million downloads was achieved! #1 photo app in 46 & top 5 in 77 countries, and top 25 overall in 27 countries and earned many reviews. Let's try and analyse what happened, what we did and what helped to generate the downloads. How was this achieved? In a nutshell, cross-promotion using the apps in the Steply Network (Steply, Phototreats, Actioncam, Darkroom & recent addition Photo Mess) and the tools from the Steply SDK .