There is an excellent article in this week’s Sunday New York Times: The Default Choice, So Hard to Resist. Thinking about defaults is an important exercise in design. However, the interesting underlying story here is about distribution. In a Senate hearing last month about Google, Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executive of Yelp, pointed to that [...]
I’ve been quiet for the last little while, but I can finally announce that I am joining App Social as Director of Development. Our main product, currently in private BETA, is Tingle. Tingle is a mobile dating application that helps users find local singles. We are heads down building an awesome product supported by a [...]
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. – Alan Kay Apple Steve Jobs quoted Alan Kay when the original iPhone was introduced. (Forward to the 6:00 mark) This is why Apple acquired PA Semiconductor. This is why Apple owns a chunk of Imagination Technologies. Apple gets it. Oracle Larry Ellison [...]
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 [...]