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iPhone App Competitive Dynamics
Image by emilychang via Flickr To say that Apple’s App Store is thriving would be an understatement. There have been 800 million downloads across Apple’s 30 million iPhones and iPod Touches — meaning on average each device has downloaded 27 apps. The App Store now has over 25,000 apps and 250+ are added every day. [...]
One of my best Firefox extentions is “SEO for Firefox” from SEOTool.com. For any site you visit, the toolbar shows you information about that site’s inbound links and search engine rankings. For example, when I visit the South by Southwest website, the toolbar displays that the sxsw.com has a google pagerank of 7. It also [...]
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 [...]
The Price of Happiness: 10¢
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 [...]
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Jonathan Wegener is a technology & marketing enthusiast living in Brooklyn. Jonathan was once told in an interview that he "thinks too much." He didn't get the job. But it was the greatest compliment he's ever received.
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