Posts Tagged ‘Developers’

Sencha Touch is a free mobile JavaScript framework that lets web developers build sophisticated touch friendly sites for mobile devices with HTML5 compliant web browsers (Android, iPhone and more). In Podcast 52, I spoke with Sencha CEO Michael Mullany about developing mobile web apps using Sencha Touch. We also discussed his thoughts about Windows 8 [...]

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

If you use mobile apps that work with Facebook or Twitter then you are probably familiar with the process for giving those apps permission to access your account on those services. Microsoft is now providing developers the ability to access Windows Live accounts in the same manner, which means third party apps can access information [...]

LinkedIn announced the launch of a new set of application-program interfaces that will give app developers access to its Company and Jobs content.

With the summer approaching, some of us may slacking on our social medial monitoring. If you’re one of those individuals, don’t worry. Below are the 5 headlines that you may have missed this week, but shouldn’t have.

If you’re a small scale developer, take a look at the chart below. I took the MAUs of three large scale developers: Electronic Arts (EA), CrowdStar and Zynga and compared them to a developer that received 50,000 monthly active users (YOU).

It is not the number of apps available for Windows Phone 7 that is at issue. It is the number of important apps available on other mobile platforms but not for Windows Phone 7. A few that come to mind are Dropbox, Evernote and Google Voice. Porting an app from one mobile platform to another [...]

Hey game developers!  If you’ve got a great idea for a new mobile game you could win up to $10,000 in the GameCast 2011 Contest, hosted by MoMinis, a cross-platform mobile gaming solution for developers.  How does the contest work?  It’s simple.  Just build your mobile game using the MoMinis Studio and you could win [...]

The main focus of Appcelerator/IDC’s developer report is, of course, Android and iOS (Apple). Android Momentum Plateaus, Says New Developer Report (ReadWriteWeb) If the survey data reflects reality, it is not a surprise that developer interest in Android is plateauing. The main issue looks like Android fragmentation (different versions of the operating system). My main [...]

Terence McGhee, a small scale developer from Champaign, Illinois, has a new Facebook game set to release on May 21st: Thugz Revenge. Space Force Fleet Commander, the last game developed by McGhee, was reported on Social Times in January. As stated in the previous article, McGhee focuses primarily on challenging harcore gamers, “A game must have a certain degree of challenge. It must reward good decision-making and punish poor-decision making.” If this is his philosophy, what’s in store for gamers in Thugz Revenge?

Android’s app count, while not quite as gigantic as iOS’ (iPhone/iPad), is doing just fine. It passed the 200,000 mark as 2010 came to a close. But, we may seem an interesting tick upwards and a new mix of developers entering the Android app fray because of the introduction of a new tool. Mono for [...]