Developers Can Now Issue Free "Promotional" Copies of iPhone Apps - Mac Rumors (5)
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Arnold Kim: Apple has finally started allowing developers to issue free promotional copies of their iPhone applications. Once an application has been accepted to the App Store by Apple, developers can issue up to 50 promotional codes. The codes allow the recipient to download a full copy of the application for free. ★
Apple Announces Top 10 iPhone App Downloads of 2008 (7)
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With 2008 on the way out and right around 10,000 iPhone applications behind them, Apple has released a bunch of lists outlining which applications scored the most downloads since the App Store’s launch back in July. The lists are separated by whether the the application is paid or free - first as an overall look, and then by each major category (games, entertainment, utilities, social networking, and music). While the overall top applications should come ...
The Mobile menagerie revealed | World Wide Worx (2)
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Are you a Magpie or an Elephant? A Sophisticat or a Playa?
Blurring the functional line–Zoho CloudSQL merges on-site and on-cloud (4)
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Zoho's CloudSQL Concept map This morning, Zoho announced the release of their CloudSQL middleware technology–a powerful pipeline between on-site applications and the cloud. While consumers found the switch to cloud computing relatively simple, enterprises continue to struggle with the lack of powerful data-portability structures. SAAS systems seldom provide an easy and reliable way to transfer information to and from traditional on-site applications. By creating an SQL-based pipeline between the cloud and on-premise systems, Zoho hopes ...
Nokia unveils flagship N97 phone (42)
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Details are in, Nokia has a new flagship phone. The N97 packs a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (that's a 16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard into this sliding communicator with an "always open" window to favorite internet or social networking sites. Nokia calls it the "world's most advanced mobile computer." To back up the claim they've dropped in HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB ...
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Jules said:
Early details at http://scobleizer.com/
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gaba said:
A Nokia új szupertelefonja, beépített 32 giga rammal, bővíthető 48 gigára. Ideje az iPhone-nak is növelnie a memóriáját. (Mellesleg ügyes a jobb oldali álló kép, ahogy a fotós elrejti a vastagságát.)
Michael Wolff: MySpace And Its Braindead Users Are Going To Zero (5)
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BusinessWeek's Jon Fine takes Rupert Murdoch tell-all author Michael Wolff out for dinner. Michael then reveals the secret he didn't put into the book: why Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) is trying so hard to ditch MySpace: MW: What [MySpace] understand[s] is their $25 billion to $30 billion valuation.- JF: But that's [expletive]. We both know that's [expletive]. MW: It doesn't make any difference. That's gonna go down. What they are looking at is the distinct ...
Nokia’s touchiest week (15)
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We’ve arrived in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers. When we got here a Nokia executive met me and bragged that the Internet has no clue what they will announce this week. I asked “what about the touch screen cell phone that I’ve seen rumors about?” He said that no one had gotten it right yet. The announcements are on Wednesday morning (it’s early Monday morning as ...
The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide (50)
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Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate broker. His industry went into recession a year ago, so he’s had a little more time than most startup CEOs to think about how to deal with the current downturn. Below is his advice to his fellow entrepreneurs. Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate ...
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Jawad Shuaib said:
Startups are founded by barbarians. But to survive the ups and downs, you have to make yourself into a Roman. The most talented entrepreneur I know nearly self-destructs on the 18-month birthday of each of his ventures. By that point a startup isn’t brand-new anymore, and it isn’t Google either. The closer you get to becoming a real company, the less glamorous reality seems: you’re grimy from clawing for money and breathing hard now from exertion, which would be fine if you could convince yourself you’re not the only one struggling. Everyone struggles. Keep fighting.
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Nate said:
I really hate these sorts of lists doling out advice, and they are increasingly common in all tech blogs. Still, I particularly like the word on being a Roman. It has to do with keeping a steady head in both the darkness and the light.
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berkay said:
We set off with the same directions: tackle a big problem, listen to customers, work hard, pinch pennies, hire sloRedfin CEO Glenn Harris Kelmanw, fire fast. Still good advice. But I think we’ll have different advice for one another once we’ve come through this downturn, about how we had to change to survive. Since real estate crashed before the overall market, Redfin (my online real estate company) has had a year’s head-start sorting out which changes seem to be working for us.
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Michelle McCormack said:
Nice. #8s my favorite
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Pierre Henri Clouin said:
Glenn Kelman has some very compelling advice to entrepreneurs to cope with the downturn and improve execution even beyond.
10,000 iPhone Apps (22)
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148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an iPhone or iPod touch). A tribute page shows a mini icon for every application. And it also gives some interesting data. About 24% of apps are free; 35% cost $.99. The average cost is $3.12, including free apps. About ...
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Al said:
Look at the categories when you follow the tribute page link - very interesting
Why I Love Twitter - O'Reilly Radar (111)
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If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose at editors, conference ...
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Ade said:
"Personally, I don't have time to wade through the comments; for me, Twitter is about quick hits, not about extended discussion." It's no surprise that a publisher would see everything as a mechanism to aggregate, filter and then broadcast to a mass market. It seems Twitter has become a Rorsach Test: when you look at it you see yourself and your preoccupations reflected back
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carl morris said:
http://www.twitter.com/carlcorp
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Ted Aronson said:
Hacker News, your source for geek mental-fellatio.
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Kevin said:
6 reasons why Tim O'Reilly loves Twitter. Good read.
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David Connell said:
Great essay on Twitter.
