Nine Inch Nails Version of Tap Tap Revenge Coming to iTunes [Nin] (7)
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Tapulous—the creators of that Perfect Drug of an app, Tap Tap Revenge—is partnering up with Nine Inch Nails to put over a dozen of the band's songs in the game. The alliance will be one of the first to bring licensed content to iPhone apps and, depending on how successful it is, could mark a surge of similar musician/application deals. Considering how addictive the game (with a Capital G) is, this NIN-bundle could be the ...
NIN Edition of Tap Tap Revenge Brings Licensed Content To Apple’s App Store (22)
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In what may well stand as a defining moment in the maturation of Apple’s App Store, Tapulous has announced that it has partnered with the band Nine Inch Nails to release a premium version of its popular game Tap Tap Revenge some time in October. The application will include a NIN-centric theme, as well as over a dozen of the band’s songs from its last two albums. The partnership is among the first to bring ...
Tapulous Loses Most Of Its Original Team, Set To Begin Anew (9)
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Something is amiss at Tapulous, the popular iPhone developer behind the mega-hit application Tap Tap Revenge. In the past week, the still-fledgling company has lost three key employees: Sean Heber, the company’s first employee, Tristan O’Tierney, a senior iPhone engineer, and Louie Mantia, a designer. Together the employees constituted a large fraction of the company’s full-time workforce. The company has everything going for it - Tap Tap Revenge is prominently featured on Apple’s homepage, and ...
Ruhe in Frieden liebes FriendBook (1)
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Unsere Lieblings(Freeware)Schmiede für das iPhone “Tapulous“, bekannt durch das Musikspiel Tap Tap Revenge und durch den Twitter-Client Twinkle, hatte zum Launch des AppStores ein interessantes Programm namens FriendBook am Start. Features wie der “Face Dialer”, das Wählen von Kontakten durch anklicken des gespeicherten Kontaktbildes und eine absolut bombige Funktion mit der Bezeichnung “Handshake”, welches das Übertragen der persönlichen Visitenkarte durch zusammenhalten und gleichzeitiges Schütteln des iPhones ermöglichte, waren die Stärken dieser Freeware App. Leider gab ...
The iPhone App Experience is About to be Destroyed... By Ads (40)
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The iPhone Apps Store is turning out to be a hit not just for Apple but also for dozens of others who have been selling their apps on the store. Others who have been giving their applications for free are doing even better. And now they have a way to monetize their apps. Today, a whole gaggle of free ad-supported applications are making their debut, thanks in part to AdMob, a mobile advertising start-up based ...
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Completely ignores the long tail
Tapulous Cofounder Mike Lee Ejected From Company (22)
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In the startup world, it isn’t uncommon to see a cofounder fall out of love with their company and leave after only a few months. But when a cofounder is forced out of an apparently red-hot startup, it can lead to further employee departures and instability. Today Mike Lee, co-founder of Tapulous and Chief Architect of client software, has been ejected from the company. In a statement to his team, Lee cites “irreconcilable differences” as ...
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Derick Valadao said:
That sucks. Getting booted out of a company you helped to build is bad enough when on the wrong end of a shotgun clause (e.g., Second Cup) but this is ridiculous!
Tapulous Cofounder Mike Lee Ejected From Company (12)
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In the startup world, it isn’t uncommon to see a cofounder fall out of love with their company and leave after only a few months. But when a cofounder is forced out of an apparently red-hot startup, it can lead to further employee departures and instability. Mike Lee, co-founder of Tapulous and Chief Architect of client software, has been ejected from the company. In a statement to his team, Lee cites “irreconcilable differences” as the ...
Mobilize LaunchPad Contestants Announced (1)
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With less than three weeks to go, we are busy trying to finalize panels and speakers for our Mobilize conference, scheduled to be held on Sept. 18 in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center. (We have super-saver tickets on sale but not for long.) One of the highlights of the event is Mobilize LaunchPad. When we asked for submissions, we were simply deluged by the number of entrants, many of them tiny and ...
The Numbers Game (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Freeware, iPhone, App StoreIt's a week of superlatives for Apple content providers!Tapulous announced that their free game for iPhone 2.0 / iPod touch, Tap Tap Revenge (click opens iTunes) should reach the one million download mark sometime this weekend. Tap Tap Revenge joins Facebook in the million-download club, with Facebook being the first app to reach these lofty heights last week. A visit to the Tapulous website shows ...
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James B said:
These numbers are pretty amazing.
iPhoneアプリ「Tap Tap Revenge」、ユーザー100万人へ―音楽業界も注目 (1)
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人気のiPhoneアプリ「Tap Tap Revenge」の運営会社、Tapulousは、同アプリが今週末にも100万ダウンロードを記録すると発表した。iPhoneアプリが100万ダウンロードを記録するのはこれが2件目だ。（Facebooは先週達成している）。App Storeという新しいチャンネルを通じたアプリケーションの拡散がきわめて急速なものになり得ることを証明する例がさらに一つ増えたわけだ。TapulousのCEO、Bart Decremは「ローンチ以来のダウンロード数はおよそ90万だ。今週末にも100万ダウンロードを突破するはず」と述べた。TapulousのiPhone向けTwitterクライアントのTwinkleはこれに比べると人気はずっと控え目で、8万ダウンロード程度だ。ただしローンチの時期はTapTap Revengeの後だ。DecremはiPhoneと2.0ファームェア（App Storeをサポートしている）を載せたiPod Touchは合計5-600万台はあると見ている。100万ダウンロードといえば、全体のほぼ20%にTapulousのアプリがインストールされたことになる。これは大したものだ。オリジナルのTap Tap Revenge（これはハックされたiPhoneだけで作動した）のいちばん楽しい機能は、ユーザーが自分でタブ譜を作って、iPhoneのライブラリにあるどの曲でもプレイできる点だった。残念ながら、AppleはサードパーティーのデベロッパーがネーティブのアプリとしてiPhoneのライブラリにアクセスすることを許可していないので、Tapulousはゲームに新しい曲を導入する方法を別に考えねばならなかった。目下、Tapulousはアプリ自体の中から新しい曲を無料でダウンロードできるようにしている。これらの曲はすべてインディーのアーティストによってTapulousに提供されたもの。（なんと現在までに250万曲がダウンロードされている）。いくつかのレコードレーベルがTap Tap Revengeのインストール・ベースが驚異的な速度で拡大している事実に気づき、新曲をPRする手段に使いたいと希望している。Decremは「われわれはインディーだけでなく、もっと一般に知られたアーティストとも話をしている。ゲームに使う新しい楽曲のプレミアム・パッケージを計画しており、これはおそらくApp Storeから本体とは別のアプリとして少額の料金で販売されることになるだろう」と述べた。なおAppleはデベロッパーがアプリ内で新しいコンテンツを販売する方式を認めていないので、これらのプレミアム・パッケージはTapulousから独立のゲームとしても販売されることも考えられる。CrunchBase InformationTapulousiPhone App StoreInformation provided by CrunchBase[原文へ]（翻訳：Namekawa, U） タグ: iPhone App Store, tap-tap-revolution, tapulous 【関連記事】 付いたり離れたりのMobileMeと私の関係 最初の週末で3G iPhoneの売上げは100万台、アプリケーションのダウンロードは1000万件 TheFind、iPhoneアプリのプライベート・ベータ開始 Tapulous、AppleのApp Store版のRockYouを狙う ［CG］iPhone/iPod TouchのAurora Feintはスゴいゲームだぞ
Tap Tap Revenge Approaches 1M Users, Music Industry Notices (60)
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Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge, has announced that the popular iPhone app will hit 1 million installs some time this weekend. The app is the second we’ve heard from to hit the milestone (Facebook reached it last week), and is another testament to the extremely rapid growth some applications have seen on Apple’s newly launched App Store. Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem says that the application has been downloaded about 900 thousand times since ...
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zemlanin said:
Даже я себе загрузил этот Тап Тап, на вырост:)
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Ben Timms said:
More proof that having a killer application means the revenue streams fall into place by themselves.
Tap Tap Revenge Approaches 1 Million Users, Music Industry Takes Notice (13)
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Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge, has announced that the popular iPhone app will hit 1 million installs some time this weekend. The app is the second we’ve heard from to hit the milestone (Facebook reached it last week), and is another testament to the extremely rapid growth some applications have seen on Apple’s newly launched App Store. Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem says that the application has been downloaded about 900 thousand times since ...
Twitter on the iPhone: Which App Will Rule Them All? (7)
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The iPhone has developed the same culture of Twitteritis that the rest of the Web has in the two-and-a-half weeks since the launch of the App Store and the iPhone 3G . Everyone wants to build the perfect Twitter application, but with so many to choose from, which one do you choose? Twitterific would seem to be the odds-on favorite to win. Already established on the desktop, the blue bird's move to the iPhone was ...
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Twitter is dying - none of them will. It will be the first one that embraces FriendFeed or Identi.ca that will rule them all.
FWLabs: Rockea tus dedos con TapTap Revenge (1)
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Estoy convencido que con la versión 2.0 del sistema operativo para el iPhone, Apple, sin querer queriendo, ha transformado su sistema en una plataforma muy poderosa para los desarrolladores de juegos, incluso con miras a competir contra el Nintendo DS y el Sony PSP. Un simple, pero claro ejemplo es el juego Tap Tap Revenge, creado por una joven empresa en Palo Alto, CA. llamada Tapulous y liderada por el belga Bart Decrem (ex fundador ...
Tapulous Wants To Be The RockYou Of Apple’s App Store (2)
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Despite facing competition from thousands of other developers, Slide and RockYou have managed to establish themselves as powerhouses on Facebook’s application platform. Using a combination of social networking and clever (and sometimes shady) marketing, both companies have seen several of their applications rise to popularity in a space where the vast majority of developers fail to have even one success. Tapulous, a new startup that formed earlier this year, is looking to do the same ...
Venture Capitalists Hot About iPhone Startups (1)
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If last year saw the venture capital community chasing startups building around the Facebook platform, this year the new new thing are iPhone application makers. In addition to the $100 million iFund floated by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, other VCs are getting in on the action. We recently covered Pelagao, which raised $15 Million from iFund, Reliance Communications and T-Mobile’s Venture Fund. Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital recently invested an undisclosed amount ...
