Yesterday, Apple announced that they would allow In App Purchases for free applications in the iTunes App Store. Previously, In App Purchases were only available in paid applications. Software As A Service This will allow developers to shift away from the Software As A Product model to the Software As A Service model. We have [...]
The Hidden Asset: Salesforce Last week Fred Wilson blogged about the hidden asset that local media has. He used the example of the Village Voice having a large sales team that can go out to businesses to sell advertising around their content. The New York Times also mentioned how Old and New Media are finding [...]
I was interviewed Tuesday morning for The Early Edition on the CBC. The interview was about the Gold Rush nature of the iTunes Application Store. The interview was later edited for the web. Apps golden for Vancouver iPhone programmer. Land Grab The top 100 or so Apps in each category generate sustainable revenue for developers. [...]
It’s been widely reported that Apple has acquired Placebase. (TechCrunch, TUAW). Placebase is a mapping company that adds a layer of intelligence on top of map data. Currently, Apple uses Google Maps for Maps.App on the iPhone. A native Google Latitude client is not available for the iPhone. There is some fuzziness as to whether [...]
Brad Feld is a venture capitalist from Boulder, Colorado. He is a Managing Director at The Foundry Group and is involved in the startup mentorship group called TechStars that provides seed founding. The good folks at Bootup Labs brought Brad Feld up to Vancouver last week to riff on entrepreneurship and business. Brad wrote about [...]
I will be on Strutta Live tomorrow at 4PM. I’ll be sitting down with Jordan Behan and Dustin Sacks. We’ll be talking about games, game development, iPhone development, and how to make all of this stuff as an independent studio. Me on a couch with a beer in hand. Watch it! I guarantee I will say something [...]
The good people at Handi Mobility shipped the Translink App for the iPhone earlier this week. One of the best features of the Translink App is its use of Location Services provided by the iPhone. The user is able to find bus stops located near them. The App uses PhoneGap to bridge the data that [...]
I will be teaching an iPhone Game Design course at BCIT this fall. The class starts on September 13th. I’m told there are still a few spots available. Here is the course description: This course focuses on developing games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Emphasis will be placed on issues that are unique [...]
If you are an certified iPhone developer, then you have probably been frustrated at some point by the Fucking NDA. You’ve probably come across the 0xE8000001 error when trying to sign code and provision a device. That last sentence probably doesn’t make any sense to you if you are not a registered developer. I Tweeted about [...]
I presented for a group of investors at the VC Forum last Thursday. It was my first time pitching Smartful Studios to investors. There was an additional challenge as I did not know ahead of time who in particular I would be pitching to. I’ve pitched to developers many times. I think I tell a [...]