Using app stores to distribute your mobile service - @mippin #mweb09
Mippin are a mobile content aggregation and portal company based in London and one of the most advanced companies in the world in terms of using applications stores as distribution channels. The...
View ArticleGetjar - cross platform app store data and statistics #mweb09
Ilja Laurs the CEO of Getjar spoke at the Mobile Web Summit - Getjar is a mobile applications store that pre-dates the iphone app store by many years. They are now funded by Accel and doing great...
View ArticleAdmob on mobile advertising @mweb09
Andy Smith, the Sales Director for admob was at the Mobile Web Summit last week talking about what they are up to. He also hung around a lot during the conference to talk to people which was...
View ArticleFuture Platforms - Mobile games and social apps @mweb09
Tom Hume from the mobile development agency Future Platforms gave a nice presentation of day 2 of the Mobile Web Summit focused on the idea of play, engagment, happiness and mobile. The killer stat...
View ArticleTaptu - touch screen mobile search @mweb09
The mobile search company Taptu has been on a bit of a roll recently - they closed a large round of funding, changed their branding, hit 1m searches per day and have been hard at work developing their...
View ArticleGood times at Mobile 2.0 in Barcelona #m20eu
Just back from the Mobile 2.0 Conference in Barcelona - wow - what a great event! It was brilliant to be able to hang out with other mobile people from around the world and listen to a load of great...
View ArticleCarnival of the Mobilists over at mtrends
A belated link back to the Carnival of the Mobilists last week hosted by Rudy at mtrends. There's a load of great stuff on there as usual including from some of the best mobile commentators out there...
View ArticleMobango - mobile 2.0 service of the week
Mobango was the mjelly.com mobile 2.0 service of the week over at Mobile Zeigeist a few weeks ago. Mobango is an interesting mobile startup based in London and Italy which is a bit like the mighty...
View ArticleThe BBC and welovemobile launch new mobile search service
The guys over at Welovemobile have announced the launch of a new BBC mobile search service as the result of a project they've been working on. We all know that mobile search is totally broken -...
View Articleiphone appstore SEO - 12 ways to improve your iphone app ranking
At the time of writing, the number of apps in the iphone app store looks set to push through the 100k mark for the first time and it's inevitable that the million mark will be reached at some point in...
View ArticleIphone appstore SEO given top billing on the carnival of the mobilists
The post on Appstore SEO has been getting a lot of attention and it was featured as the first post on last week's Carnival of the Mobilists over at Tams60 blog. There's some other good posts on mobile...
View Articleiphone appstore search and discovery - the next frontier
So it looks like the iphone appstore is going to break through 100k apps pretty soon with some of the big tech blogs already jumping the gun a bit and reporting it. This is another major milestone in...
View ArticleCarnival of the Mobilists at Msearchgroove
This weeks Carnival of the Mobilists is over at Msearchgroove. We nearly won post of the week with our iphone Appstore Search And Discovery review but this week's winner is a post covering our...
View Articleiphone app store statistics
Anyone who needs to write a presentation or report on anything to do with mobile, iphone or app stores needs to get research and statistics on the app store to help back up their arguments. For...
View ArticleApp store statistics post on the Carnival of hte Mobilists over at Mobile state
Carnival of the Mobilists no. 199 is over at Mobileslate this week and they featured our post on iphone app store statistics. There's a load of other posts including from Tomi Ahohen and a podcast...
View ArticleWhy Google got a bargain with the admob acquisition
So admob just announced they've been acquired by Google for $750m. In my view they got a bargain: admob is easily the biggest mobile ad network out there in terms of overall scale in particular,...
View ArticleCarnival of the Mobilists #200 over at Mobile Stance
The mjelly post arguing that admob got a bargain paying just $750m for admob is over at Mobile Stance this week as part of the Carnival of the Mobilists. It's the 200th edition and there's some more...
View ArticleMore mobile advertising acquisitions means more investment in mobile
So mobile internet is finally hitting the big time - with the "Youtube moment" at the end of the last year being the acquisition of admob, closely followed by Apple buying up Quattro Wireless at the...
View Articleiphone appstore SEO - new trick
So the post on iphone appstore SEO has been very popular - here's a new trick which I just spotted out in the wild. So one factor in your iphone appstore ranking is the number of reviews. Storm8, a...
View Articleapp store SEO - another new technique
So a follow up to my previous posts on App Store SEO and App store SEO Trick. Here's a rather spammy but clever technique for leveraging the success of top games uncovered by Marco. Developers are...
View ArticleUsing the facebook API on mobile
The crew behind the 02 Litmus mobile application store are now working over at Telefonica Developer Communities and pumping out some good stuff over on the blog there. Carnival of the Mobilists...
View ArticleA clever use of youtube for selling mobile phones from O2
One of the jobs I did back in the day was selling mobile phones for Orange. The best thing about the job was some of the people that you worked with that knew absolutely everything about all the...
View ArticleThe story of an early location based mobile marketing startup
Back in late 2006 I was working in South Africa and was in the mall one day when I received a bluetooth marketing message over the phone. This was completely amazing and something that I'd never seen...
View ArticleMobile advertising - CPMs, CPCs, CTRs and CPAs - #mweb09
Here's some notes from the Mobile Web Summit from a presentation by Ben Tatton Brown of the mobile ad buying agency Ring Ring Media. Ring Ring are pioneers in bringing the agency model to mobile -...
View ArticleO2 Litmus developer network - more than an operator appstore #mweb09
@jamesparton from O2 gave a short presentation at the Mobile Web Summit about their new developer platform O2 Litmus with some data on how well it is doing so far. Great to see operators sharing...
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