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Here at WIP, we are always looking for ways to gather information and intelligence to pass on to our developer community. We have partnered with Vision Mobile and App Promo on a couple of developer surveys to do just that.
Complete the surveys at the links below. Not only will you be helping the industry, you also have a chance to win a prize or two.
Thanks for your help! We will publish survey results/links once available.
Take the new Developer Economics 10-minute survey and win prizes! Be the first to get VisionMobile’s latest State of the Developer Nation report and enter a draw for great prizes: an iPhone 5, 2 x Samsung Galaxy SIII, 2 x Nokia Lumia 920, 2 x Blackberry 10 devices, an AR Drone, a Next thermostat and a Nike Fuel band.
On February 12 we had our 2nd big Parallel Universe gathering at Google Campus in London
The whole meetup was dedicated to ASO (App Store Optimization) with 2 great talks by Niren Hiro CEO of Searchman and Gabriel Machuret of asoprofessional.com
We bumped into SamtheTechie while at droidcon London last week, and caught up with him and his intriguing Sukey project:
Tell us a little about yourself
I am an electronic engineer, hacker, entrepreneur and maker. I spend most of my time at London Hackspace. I became an activist in October 2011 when I joined the OccupyLondon Tech Team and I stayed there for 7 months.
Alright Sam, (Cool name by the way, props) so what is sukey?
Sukey is designed to keep demonstrators safe mobile and informed. Sukey.io is a new platform which we hope will spur on previously unprecedented levels of collaboration and truly international digital participation and gestures of solidarity during demonstrations, the world over.
Our goal is that people will engage with this framework and start using Sukey.io to support each other at the demo by completing 'microtasks', much like Amazon's Mechnical Turk Service (i.e. small digital tasks like tagging a photo or linking to a tweet) in order to help the...
I'm Cody Powell, cofounder and CTO of Famigo, where I specialize in the development and delivery of cross-platform, mobile experiences for users of all ages. I’m a dad and a husband, a graduate of Trinity University, an ardent supporter of the Texas Rangers and Manchester City, and I make a mean mojito. You can follow me on Twitter at @codypo.
What is Famigo?
Famigo helps families find and manage apps. Part of this is through our own Android app (iOS is on the way!), the Famigo Sandbox. The Sandbox catalogs all of the apps on your phone and finds the stuff that’s safe for your kids to play. Then we build a kid-safe play space on your device, so your kids can play the stuff they like without accidentally calling your boss or deleting your contacts. In addition, we also have an app recommendation engine that’s optimized specifically for kids; if you’re looking for the best free educational apps for a 4 year old, we’re the people to...
Having worked in videogames and mobile, I could not miss the first London Mobile Monday of 2012. “Mobile Games” was the hot topic of the night, discussed by a great panel of professionals and chaired by Oscar Clark of Papaya Mobile. Not that one would want to miss any of these industry gatherings, but, for me, it was also the first time on the volunteer side. In fact, they even gave me the chance to blog about the event, so here I am.
While on the tube to go to the event, I was thinking about the topic. I personally feel that video games and mobile industry are converging towards something different, and mobile games development is driving the innovation. The new mobile and tablet platform allowed games to change, thanks mainly to three new features: touchscreens, connectivity and portability. All the portable game consoles we used before the rise of the app stores lacked at least one of the three, not to speak about the powerful graphic of the new mobile screens. We now have...
Have you also noticed that 2011 has seen a drastic reduction in the numbers of predictions?
When this time of year is usually full of "Top 10 things that will happen next year in mobile" ... In 2011 pre-dictators (those doing predictions) seem to have disappeared or seem to be more quiet than usual!
What should we read in this?
Optimistic view
2011 has seen mobile finally booming (despite a slow economy) and people usually predicting at this time of the year are too busy doing! (or resting from a long hard year)
Pessimistic view
2012 looks so muddy that most people do not want to venture in what could be a very very dangerous territory
Even more pessimistic view
The major mobile devices and mobile platforms (Android and Apple) have reached a stage of maturity where the rhythm of innovation inside and outside the platform is slowing down. There is no exciting future for 2012 just consolidation over existing technologies.
[Disclaimer : this slide pack was prepared on a broken Mac! where only the browser was working! The entire presentation was thus prepared on sliderocket who saved my bum, by allowing me to import exisitng presentations (albeit in image format most of the time. The fact that I didn't have access to a file browser (they call it finder on a Mac) did not really help ... I still curse Apple to this day! But hope you enjoy the presentation. This is a long winded way to say that some of the slides look awful and I apologize for that... and I'm working on an official apology from Apple too :D ]
Posted by Caroline on 06 August 2011
| Tags: mobile apps
I'm doing some research on all the components that go into making a successful app. Is it a good idea? Good planning. Good market research? Good marketing? Practice? Having investment? Living in 'the valley'? or having a good luck charm? My sense is a combination of the above, and a lot of hard work.
Help me out by completing this brief survey. Also - if you are interested in being a case study, please contact me directly (caroline at wipconnector dot com). Thanks!
Yesterday was a big day for Apple. The company announced iOS 5 at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, and it said it had paid out $2.5 billion to developers for apps they've sold to iOS users.
Apple's lawyers also sent WIP a letter yesterday, asking that we cease and desist from using the term "App Store" in the title of the App Store Catalog and App Store Reports we provide for developers here on our site. Apple has trademarked the term "App Store" in the US and many other countries, and the letter says our use of the term "improperly suggests to U.S. consumers that numerous companies offer an APP STORE mobile download service, when in fact the term APP STORE refers exclusively to Apple's groundbreaking download service."
Apparently Steve Jobs hasn't gotten a similar letter, since even he uses the term generically to refer to any of what the lawyers suggest we call "mobile download services" or "application download services".
These are the latest Samsung, Microsoft, Google, Nokia/Intel and Apple devices...
Obviously I'm not talking smartphones! But rather a smart box (a.k.a Set Top).
Can you recognize them?
(there's a prize for first person to write a comment with all the devices, OS, manufacturer)
A year ago we organized our first MiniJam at IP&TV World Forum. In expectation of the Google TV announcement, the world was abuzz and full of promises, Apps on the TV were going to revolutionize the world!
A year later the buzz has definitely disappeared and TV apps have little space in developer conversations. And a few hands suffice to "count" the results from the app bonanza everyone was expecting. Arguably the real bonanza was to be found in the TV platforms.
Apple TV, Boxee and Google TV are here for the buzz, Samsung TV, Meego and Microsoft MediaRoom play the hiding giants. And I'm sure I'm missing a few. Now, mobile device fragmentation looks so, well, over-hyped.
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