Image via CrunchBase Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media gave a fascinating presentation at last night’s NYC iPhone Developer Meetup.  Greg’s slides were chock full of numbers and data gathered by Pinch Media’s iPhone analytics platform.  As you might expect, I was in heaven. Greg demonstrated his evidence that a free ad-supported app rarely earns [...]

An interesting trend I’ve noticed lately:  iPhone App developers have finally started paying attention to SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  And by search engine, I mean the App Store’s search feature.  Developers have started putting terms into their app descriptions so their app shows up for related queries.  But developers have also begun including unrelated but [...]

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a self-described “marketplace for work.”  The service lets you outsource tasks to a decentralized, on-demand, scalable workforce made up of thousands of Mechanical Turk Workers.  The tasks are appropriately named Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) because the service is designed for repetitive tasks that can’t be done by a computer because they [...]

(This blog post was featured in Silicon Alley Insider’s 10 Things Investors Need To Know Before OpenTable’s IPO) Online restaurant reservations company OpenTable filed for an IPO on Friday, revealing their finances for the world to see.  The SEC filing contains all the financial figures you would expect: revenue, expenses breakdown, details of the public [...]