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A recent Harvard Business School study showed that a small percentage of Twitter users tweet…  then the blogs exploded.  Fortunately, after the initial “See why Twitter is doomed” posts, some good commentary focused on understanding the reason for the numbers.
What we should expect from Twitter use hinges on the extent to which it is a [...]

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My first iPhone application, A Deck of Cards, is now available for sale at the iPhone application store.  I am selling it for free so go get it now…………Link
…… OK you got it?  I can wait if you don’t…….
The point of this app is to demonstrate some of the iPhone’s capabilities.  I am planning [...]

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At mobile forums like this one, there is a lot of talk about the iPhone market size.  The traditional wisdom is: if you want to make money selling mobile apps you have to develop for multiple platforms.
This is because of the fragmented mobile device market of which currently includes 10M iPhones or so.
Looking at only [...]

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In a previous life, I designed software systems for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Among the things I learned was that at mach 2 your UI better be pretty darn responsive. Fighter pilots do not have time to wait for things to load or animate or whatever. In some ways this is true for mobile [...]

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Who will merge my contacts?

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I want one contact list to reference everyone in my social graph.  Is that too much to ask?
Enterprises realize benefits from unified contacts
One of the biggest new areas in enterprise these days is unified communications. These UC systems integrate IM, Mail, Voice, and Video into one unified client.  My current company, Cisco, is a leader [...]

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How to make money from iPhone Applications

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I’ve recently been attending iPhone developer meetups in Silicon Valley.  Everyone there is pretty psyched about the app store and is furiously trying to finish up their apps.  The group is a mix of develops and entrepreneurs from around the area.  Some are hobbyists, some fully time developers. We even have a “retired” googler in [...]

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