Posts Tagged ‘Developers’

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 Android

Mono is an Open Source project that has ported Microsoft’s .NET framework to non-Windows platforms like Linux. Mono for Android lets developers who program using the C# language and arefamiliar with Microsoft .NET develop applications for Android-based smartphones and tablets. The project lists these features for Mono for Android:

- C# and .NET on Android phones and tablets
- .NET Bindings to Native APIs
- Distribute on the Android Market, and other Android App Stores
- Enterprise deployable
- Visual Studio 2010 Integration

The Mono for Android project has a pair of introductory development tutorials available here for .Net programmers who are interested in developing for Android.

http://mono-android.net/Tutorials

Engaging users is probably one of the most important aspects of social gaming development — even though a lot of us tend to forget. Use all of the digital content you want, but without a game of engagement, users will be uninterested. Facebook helps developers with this aspect of social gaming by giving developers the option to use requests. If you have played any of the leading Facebook games out there, you will know that you are always bombarded with requests. To stay on top of your game, upgrade to Requests 2.0 to provide your users with two different request options: user-generated requests and app-generated requests.

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Popular social web toolbar Wibiya has just launched a new web developer platform, allowing developers to submit and integrate their own 3rd party applications through an open API, and to take advantage of a Wibiya’s distribution channel to share their apps with hundreds of thousands of Web publishers, bloggers and more across the web.

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While Google Buzz has been Google’s best attempt at building a social platform that both users and developers can interact with, the company has faced some difficulty in gaining ongoing traction. The most significant hurdle was a massive privacy backlash following an issue which enabled new users to view those contacts who you speak with most frequently.
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Last week was an important one for Twitter: with the first ever Twitter developer’s conference in San Francisco; there were fascinating statistics revealed and a number of significant announcements, some of which we had already expected. Among the stats revealed is the fact that the site has over 100M registered users, making them in some ways almost as large as Facebook. This gain looks to be something Twitter wants to push with the announcement of open annotations for developers, the details of which were finally revealed this past Friday.
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Last night I read Loic LeMeur’s article about how his company wasn’t f*cked by Twitter and I can’t help but feel like you’re listening to somebody who’s in denial. The problem is not that Seesmic doesn’t have a brand built, but instead that if the company doesn’t pivot at this critical juncture, they’ll end up screwing themselves over. The reason is that applications competing with platforms is always a losing game.
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A big announcement for developers to come out of Twitter’s Chirp developer conference, was that Twitter will split revenue evenly with developers who chose to display promoted tweets within their applications. Instantly, Twitter has provided a new revenue model for the thousands of developers who have built applications on their platform. Want to make money? Build an efficient distribution mechanism of Twitter’s “Promoted Tweets“.
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Talk about an easy implementation! Twitter’s new “Anywhere” platform will leave you feeling like a programming genius once you’ve become set up. Prior to going into substantial details about how to configure Twitter @anywhere, we thought it would be useful to provide a quick demonstration about how to get set up with Twitter @anywhere on your site and have hovercards, a basic service which creates dynamically linked Twitter accounts on your site. Read on for more!
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If you work on 3rd-party tools built over Twitter’s API and have noticed a problem with the URLs of updated profile pics, tweetimages now offers a solution to the problem. According to the tweetimages website, the problem lies in the in the profile_image_url attribute of a user’s profile because it links to an Amazon S3 URL, which changes if a user updates their Twitter profile image. While the Twitter website itself handles any profile pic updates, 3rd-party tools sometimes retain older pic URLs. Tweetimages offers a simple solution so that developers don’t have to come up with their own.
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Recently, we noticed that RockYou had been promoting it’s ZooWorld application by using graphic ads on the Meebo chat service. This is certainly another sign of the growth of Facebook games, not only in reach, but in value to advertisers, as they pay to make placements on disparate networks or in this case, chat aggregators. We investigate how other game companies are attracting users to their Facebook games from outside of Facebook.
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