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Mobile

On mobile apps, search and display ads

Nov
24
2009

Question for any users of the NetNewsWire iPhone app

Image by Erik Mallinson via Flickr

If you ever send stories to Instapaper via NNW’s iPhone app, how do you access them? Where do they go? I have the Instapaper app, but my stories don’t show up there, and I don’t recall giving NNW my Instapaper account credentials. It’s a cool feature of the app, and [...]

Nov
23
2009

New Title & Focus

I’ve re-focused the blog on digital media, primarily the buying and selling of online display ad inventory. As I mentioned in a previous post, I find the ecosystem growing up around this so fascinating – you’ve got a wide variety of start-ups offering offering both publishers and advertisers substantial improvement in the metrics that [...]

Aug
28
2009

Evolving the branded app

I saw an interesting piece in MediaPost on the Virtual Zippo Lighter branded app for the iPhone. It’s been the most successful branded app in the App Store for quite some time, and yet it’s so simple: you open the app, choose your “lighter”, and then slide your finger across the “wheel” to light a [...]

Aug
14
2009

Digi-junkies

I’m hanging out at dinner with a few friends. Of the four of us, three have an iPhone. Jess, the holdout, says that she fears having so much of her life tied to one device.
It’s an interesting point. Makes me wonder – just how attached am I to the iPhone? In fact, what the iPhone [...]

Aug
11
2009

Kindle on iPhone – Itsoweezee

I’m very happy with it thus far. Everything about the experience has been satisfactory if not excellent. Is there any form of media that I can’t consume via my iPhone now?

Aug
3
2009

Virtual relationship, real relationship: any difference?

I read a really cool post by PSFK’s Christine Huang earlier on the possible displacement of real-life social experiences with simulated ones.
This topic is so fascinating to me. On the one hand, I embrace all of the new, mostly digital, methods we have to connect. On the other hand, I’ve often feared that [...]