James and I had a great chance to chat with Rob Woodbridge from UNTETHER.tv a week ago, and the interview is now online. Check it out for a bit of our backstory and thoughts on the mobile app ecosystem.
James and I had a great chance to chat with Rob Woodbridge from UNTETHER.tv a week ago, and the interview is now online. Check it out for a bit of our backstory and thoughts on the mobile app ecosystem.
I just spent most all of this weekend at iPadDevCamp. The event is the fourth of its kind, though the first three were called iPhoneDevCamp. They’re put on by a few developers and all-around-good-guys Raven Zachary, Dom Sagolla, Chris Messina, Chris Allen, Blake Burris and William Hurley.
The event had a few keynotes from some pretty heavy hitters (like Bob Borchers, former Apple bigwig now Opus Capital bigwig), a bunch of barcamp style training sessions (including one from Saurik of Cydia, king of iPhone jailbreak land), and a hackathon. A couple really sweet projects came out of the hackathon. I also got a good chance to hang out with our friends from Burstly, which always makes an event more fun.
I’m not sure when the next one is, but I’ll definitely be going. It’s an exhausting weekend, but a fun one.
About a month ago Inedible Software stepped in to help a good friend of ours, Jeff Carlson from CivicSpeak, complete his company’s first application CivicTweets. Jeff’s company has a neighboring cube to ours in the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale CA. The app was just about done, but we helped with some Map Kit integration, some data saving and persistence, and some bug fixing. Check out that app on the app store here:
Since Song Sift was released it received three high-profile reviews.
The second was Gizmodo in their Top 10 Apps of the Week
We’re super pumped about all three reviews, as they come from some of the bigger and more important blogs / review sites. Whoo!
On January 27th James and I will help chair an iPhone Event at PariSoMa. We’ve gotten to know (and like) the PariSoMa people from teaching the iPhone Bootcamps there, and they’ve started hosting what will hopefully be monthly iPhone meetups. This particular one will be about raising VC for an iPhone company, and we’re excited to announce that the creators of Cabulous, Tapulous and Smule will be there. We’ll also be discussing whatever Apple is announcing, be it the new tablet and/or iPhones and/or iPhone OS 4.0.
This comes from a sort of sketchy site, but it looks like an original blog post, so we’re still really pumped to be on the list. Check it out. On another note, our friend Jahanzeb’s app Jaadu VNC is on the list too. Nice job dude!
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post, so I figured I’d update you on at least one thing James and I are up to.
This weekend (Fri-Sat-Sun) we’re teaching the iPhone Bootcamp SF, which is a 3-day, 8-hour-a-day intensive iPhone course. We have about 380 slides and 10 exercises prepared for the Bootcamp. This is, however, the second one we’ve taught (the first was in September), so we didn’t have to create all of these materials from scratch; we did that last time.
James and I, in different articles, each got a quote in Information Week in the last two weeks. Awesome!
James quoted about Flash CS5 making native iPhone apps
We just got word that Al Roker loves POW and actually used it on the TODAY show! We’ve yet to find the clip, but we’ve confirmed with an article from New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/shopping/features/59879/
Fortune recently had an online article that centered around Shotgun Free and it’s advertising revenue. Check it out: Shake. Load. Kaboom