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
In our description of Shotgun Free / Pro we wrote that you need to “pump your iPhone or iPod touch back and forth to cock”. This is perfectly legitimate and non-vulgar use of the word “cock”, but unfortunately iTunes displays it as needing to “pump your iPhone or iPod touch back and forth to c**k”. Thanks iTunes, thanks.
We’re also not the only ones to be hit — see below
James and I were interviewed by a reporter from Macleans Magazine a few weeks ago, and the article is now on their website (on the front page, I might add). It’s — all things considered — a rather positive article, and it has a hilarious picture.
Macleans Magazine is one of Canada’s top news magazines and has been
called the Time Magazine of Canada.
Check it out:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/02/i-can-turn-my-phone-into-a-shotgun/
Apple made headlines at their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year with a 5 x 4 grid of 30” monitors displaying icons for some 20,000 iPhone apps. When someone would download a particular app, the icon would pop out and send a little ripple through the icons around. From afar it looked like rain.
The icon for Shotgun Free seemed to pop out every couple of seconds, which was incredibly validating. James and I would just sit and stare at it, saying “PING” every time.
See the picture from afar and the video of Shotgun Free attached.
