Earlier this month, we asked "What are important considerations when managing hundreds of virtual machines?" The stakes were high – a MacBook Air, to be exact. We received plenty of responses but only one rose to the top. Chad Fulton responded, that the most important thing when managing hundreds of...
If you want to build a vibrant and successful Facebook community for your business, it might pay to take a moment and look at Praetorian Group's FireRescue1 page here. Praetorian is the publishing arm for the trade associations that represent public safety workers. Clearly, their social media strategies are on...
After making the rounds on the Internet for a few days, a news story about research purporting to show that Internet Explorer users tend to have low IQ scores was revealed this morning to be a hoax. Evidently, the study, the press release and the supposed company that released it...
Jailbreaking, the act of hacking an Apple mobile device to allow for the installation of unapproved, third-party apps, is often seen as a niche activity undertaken by only a small subset of users. But the truth is, when you're dealing with Apple devices, even a small subset equates to a...
Yesterday was the first ever Intel AppLab to hit the UK shores and it was a great success!!! Plenty of Willing Developers learning the Intel + MeeGo ways. By many Intel are now seen are the principal driving force behind MeeGo and Events like one certainly do not dissuade...
The June contest for the MacBook Air giveaway is well underway but time still remains to enter your comment for this month's competition.Here's the question: What are the Considerations When Looking at Server Infrastructure?Post your comment and we'll work with our co-judge, Tom Raftery, to choose the winner. Remember, you...
It's easy to be dismissive about something like Startup Bus, where teams of hackers build and launch their projects over the course of the bus ride to South by Southwest. There's only so much you can do, of course, in such a short period of time, thrown together with strangers...
After a few years of buzz in mobile marketing circles, QR - or "quick response" - codes are finally starting to pop up in the United States, thanks in large part to the proliferation of smart phones. While they're still not exactly mainstream, QR codes are appearing in major print...
All the buzz about HTML5 in 2010 and the Apple/Adobe rift makes it pretty easy to think it was a grim year for Flash. But the Flash team at Adobe wouldn't agree. They've posted The Flash Platform Top 10 for 2010, an interesting list reminding us that 2010 was actually...
This week, GetJar teamed up with Zynga to announce the debut of new mobile games: Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker. Mafia Wars, already a familiar name to Facebook users, is a GetJar exclusive, meaning it's being launched first on the GetJar.com website prior to any other app store. Zynga Poker...
At the recent Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Patrick Mork, CMO of the second largest mobile application store GetJar, detailed a number of ways developers can distribute their mobile applications. In a breakout session he led, entitled "Monetization and Acquisition in App Stores," Mork discussed the large number of...
There's something about Apple's consumer design chops that makes their latest product - whatever it happens to be - the definitive object of desire of the moment.Steve Jobs could announce a new line of refrigerator expansion valves next week, and we'd be lining up at midnight to buy them. ("It's...
As we noted following the Google TV announcement this spring, one of the many interesting things surrounding Google's foray into Internet TV isn't simply its building of the product, but its commitment to building a developer ecosystem around it. And in an attempt to get more people interesting in building...
One major problem in Nigeria is the lack of employment; many people go to school with the belief that it's all they need to succeed in life only to get out of school and stay at home for years looking for the right job. This can be improved, and the...
Glamour Magazine has teamed up with Smule, makers of the "Glee" fan app for the popular U.S.-based TV show featuring high school glee club singers, in an interesting marketing scheme to increase app downloads. According to the magazine's website, U.S. residents who download Glamour's iPhone and iPad application between September...
This week's roundtable, co-hosted with Volusion, was focused on e-commerce entrepreneurs, and needless to say, one of the key topics of discussion was customer acquisition via search engine marketing. First up was Andy Humphrey for EcoMowers.com, an e-commerce company that is already at $500,000 annual revenue selling eco-friendly push lawnmowers....
Everyone wants to replicate Apple's smash hit, instant cool, stand-in-line-overnight success when it comes time to roll out a product or stage an event. Plenty of companies attempt this by imitating Apple, copying its sleek design or attempting to maximize hype using secrecy. Not surprisingly, that turns out to be...
Tomorrow the band Arcade Fire releases their new album, The Suburbs. It's interesting to look at how a popular band of today utilizes the Web to release and promote a new album.Is the band using Facebook more than MySpace now? Do they use Twitter and, if so, how? What music...
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the case of the time-management tool Chrometa and the startup's self-described "failed" launch. In its blog, Chrometa explained some of the steps it took to keep pushing product and consumer development forward.Also answering the question, "You've launched. Now what?" is Cloudomatic co-founder...
Facebook has continued ramping up its Facebook Credits by taking a tried and true approach - giving some users a little taste to get them wanting more.Facebook has been randomly giving users anywhere from 10 to 25 free Facebook Credits over recent weeks, a move the company hinted at during...
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