Install Now: Driving Installs in Addition to Likes
I have written about Facebook’s AppCenter before and how it represents the focus on mobile and on Facebook’s platform… and opens up a monetizable, interaction beyond “Like”: “Install”. (And by the...
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Pilot! Cheats And Tips
Flawed though it may be, Pilot has enough soothing charms to keep anyone occupied for a fair few hours as we discovered in our review earlier today. There's one thing it does rather badly though, and...
View ArticleAccomplishment vs. Success
I had a great conversation with an entrepreneur the other day talking about the difference between accomplishment and success. Accomplishment is what happens on the road to success, but declaring...
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Kumo Lumo Cheats And Tips
Kumo Lumo is rapidly rising up the App Store charts and with good reason. Packed with colorful, compelling gameplay and beautiful artwork, this free world-nurturing game is a must for any mobile...
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Happy Street Update 1.2.0 Brings Halloween Content
The popular village management game Happy Street has been updated with some brand new Halloween content and quests. Check out a screenshot below for what you can expect to see in the update: The...
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Girls Like Robots Review (iPhone, iPad)
If there's one thing you can expect from an Adult Swim game it's the unexpected, and the publisher has carved out quite a niche for itself in providing highly original, fiendishly addictive games that...
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HTML5 Is The Real Loser In The iPhone Maps Fiasco
The problem with Apple Maps is not Apple Maps. The problem is how much worse the web-app version of Google Maps is than the old native app and what this means for mobile innovation. Just look at the...
View ArticleCrossing the Channel
Some people wonder why I go to Germany so often. It’s to meet some brilliant people who are doing amazing things there, among them Wolfgang Blau, for almost five years the editor-in-chief of Zeit...
View ArticleThe iPhone 5: The Best, For The Most, For The Least
This is the final part of my trilogy of iPhone 5 design reviews. Yes, I realize this has gotten way out of hand. I’m sorry. Charles and Ray Eames, famous mid-century designers, had a motto: “The best,...
View ArticleCirca Wants To Save Journalism By Killing Articles — What’s Wrong And Right...
There’s a lot to like and a lot to hate about Circa, the new company by Cheezburger Network and reality TV star Ben Huh and SocialThing and SimpleGeo co-founder Matt Galligan. It launches today and is...
View ArticleSurprise! There May Be A Business In Google Apps After All!
There’s no doubt that Google Apps has traction. Lots of startups and even larger companies are aboard. What’s in question is how many of those people are paying for the Google Apps for Business...
View ArticleBoxee TV
Our portfolio company Boxee announced their next generation device today called Boxee TV. Boxee has always been about making it as easy as possible to watch TV over the Internet and Boxee TV...
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Clash Of Clans: The Best Of The Rest
Clash of Clans has consumed many a gaming hour in 2012, but what if you're looking for something just a little bit different? We've rounded up some of the title's finest contemporaries for you to...
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Here's What Microsoft's Tablet Has That Apple's iPad Doesn't (MSFT)
The wait is over. Today we know the starting price for Microsoft Surface: $499. For those keeping score, that's the same price as Apple's [AAPL 648.23 13.47 (+2.12%) ] newest iPad, $100 more...
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Infographic: Tencent QZone Hits 1.9B Photo Uploads
Which one of those is the largest photo service in the planet, Flickr, Photobucket, or Facebook? To some people’s surprise, Facebook IS the de facto king of online photos with more than 140 billion...
View ArticleStar Wars study notes for girls
It’s become worryingly apparent that not everyone seems to know the basics of Star Wars. And by ‘everyone’ I mostly mean girls. Don’t yell at me for the gender bias, I’m just calling it as I see it....
View ArticleTwitter’s Great “Some People You May Know” Email
I have written glowingly about Quora and Twitter’s weekly digest emails. Well here is another good one from Twitter that is beautifully put together: “Ryan Spoon, we found some people you may know”. I...
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Marvel War Of Heroes: Five Things We Want
We've yet to hear any official word from Mobage on why exactly Marvel War Of Heroes missed its expected release date last Thursday, and we're still awaiting confirmation that the game will make an...
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The Simpsons: Tapped Out- Unlocking Witch Marge
If you grabbed the Halloween update for The Simpsons: Tapped Out, you'll likely have heard of the witch costume for Marge. But how do you unlock it? First of all, you need to be Level 15 as a minimum....
View ArticleAutographing the Kindle Version of Startup Communities
Every day someone shows me a Kindle and asks jokingly if I can sign Startup Communities for them. This is one moment when I wish I always carried a sharpie or a paperclip with me. I adore Kindles too...
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