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While Threadless in many ways pioneered the notion of crowdsource-based e-commerce, the company waited until May of this year to develop and release its official iPhone app. Longtime members and others just catching on will like what they have to see. Threadless became a national phenomenon invitin ... Full Article »
Eric Swayne (@eswayne), from Denton, TX, is Director of Social Analytics at M/A/R/C Research. He loves social media, great coffee and original recipe Dr Pepper. Check out his lists of apps that do amazing things with the iPhone’s mic and apps guaranteed to keep a preschooler distracted, or his top ... Full Article »
Among the biggest gripes consumers have about iOS devices is their inability to support Flash-based technologies. While you shouldn’t hold your breath and wait for Apple to reconsider, one MIT-based startup has a pretty compelling workaround. AlwaysOn Technologies last March came out with its Clo ... Full Article »
As a new parent, I am always searching for the most convenient ways to share pictures with select groups of family and friends. The trick is to find a platform that is just as accessible to my 93-year-old grandmother as it is my teenage hipster nephew. Sending attachments via email is too cumbersom ... Full Article »
Dave Metzener (@vesperdem), a software developer from Manchester, Missouri, has the Appolicious Top 10 Collector Badge with over 3400 apps in his app library. He’s been an Apple fan since 1979, when he typed away at his Apple ][. 1. Tell us about yourself - where you live, your job, things you li ... Full Article »
Just as Starbucks tries to make the customer experience consistent throughout its 6,800 U.S. company operated stores, the company has similarly uniform standards for its mobile applications. Thus it is no surprise that while Starbucks has the free myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile apps for the ... Full Article »
The wildly popular combat/puzzle Android game Tank Hero made it to the iTunes App Store this week. In this edition of Game Theory, we check in Mark Ng and Alkas Baybas of ClapFoot games, which developed the title. The Canadian game developers talk about the advantages of marketing an app on Android ... Full Article »
Worse things can be said about a new iPhone game beyond being too much like the blockbuster hit Cut the Rope. That’s the rap on still-addictive physics-based puzzler Spider Jack, the subject of this edition of Game Theory. The folks at Chillingo - the publisher behind Spider Jack, Cut the Rope an ... Full Article »
Corey Redlien is a developer who creates his own luck. With a sensibility that appeals to both hardcore and casual gamers alike, Redlien (in concert with Crescent Moon Games) created the ever-addictive game Gears. A casual marble rolling game with just enough “meat on its bones” to reach player ... Full Article »
The growing market for mobile device applications has changed the way some businesses promote products and services to customers, and it has changed another thing too – the way some marketing professionals break into the business. One example is Rob Shoesmith. Shoesmith got his start marketing mo ... Full Article »
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