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Mashable Releases iPhone Application
Mashable.com, the social media website created by Pete Cashmore has released an iPhone application to complement their blog. Through the application you can browse by authors, categories, channels, and categories. Stories can be shared through e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter on the application. The application is available for free. [Mashable]
Categories Apple App Store, Mashable, Pete Cashmore
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PULSE2 APPLICATION GREEK GODS IS AN APPLE STAFF FAVORITE!
Shan Sadiq and I started working on Pulse2 as a full time business in June 2008. Since then our business has grown in leaps and bounds. Pulse2.com has been our primary revenue source up until we started designing iPhone applications. We started designing iPhone applications in January 2009. And one of the latest developments regarding that aspect of our business is that Apple has decided to feature our Greek Gods application [iTunes link] as a Staff Favorite within the Education section. Now Greek Gods is a top 10 application within the Education category of iTunes.
Greek Gods is an application that has a database of all the Greek Gods and a description of them. There is a description of over 600 Greek Gods in our database. To navigate around the application, there is an intuitive wheel-based user interface. There is also a feature that allows you to bookmark Greek Gods. Search is built into the application too. A majority of our customer ratings for this iPhone application is 5 out of 5 stars.
Some of the features that we plan to add to this application in the form of updates include improved search, categorized Greek Gods, and Greek Gods quizzes. We also plan to increase the database size of the application so that Greek heroes are also included. This application is extremely useful for those who take humanities and art classes for school or if you have a keen interest in mythology.
One of the customers that reviewed Greek Gods said “Awesome resource for my World Mythology class. Allows me to understand the motives of the Gods.” We highly recommend that you check out our application and we appreciate Apple for helping us promote this application. If you have any feedback for our application, let us know in the comments.
Check out our other 24 applications by visiting the Pulse2 page on iTunes [iTunes link].
Categories Apple App Store, Pulse 2.0, Pulse2 Applications
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Medica’s Interesting iPhone App Advertisement [SCREENSHOT]
Health plan provider Medica has designed an interesting iPhone application advertisement. The tag line is “Because the light saber app couldn’t cut health care costs.” This advertisement cleverly referred to the popularity of the light saber application and will get customers to shop and say, “hey this advertisement is right, maybe I should download this app because it’ll help me potentially save money” at the same time.
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Diggnation Host Alex Albrecht Designs Duel iPhone App Game
Diggnation host Alex Albrecht hired some iPhone application developers to work on various projects. His most recent application that was added to the iTunes App Store is called Duel [iTunes link]. He released the game through a company called App Dragon.
To play Duel with a friend, both of you need iPhones and need to connect to each other through Bluetooth. After that, there is a countdown and you have to point your iPhone at your friend horizontally similar to how people in the Wild Wild West did it. Alex Albrecht was a co-host of former TechTV show The Screen Savers.
Categories Alex Albrecht, Apple App Store, Diggnation
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Tap Tap Revenge 3 Hits 2 Million Downloads In One Week After Going Free
Tap Tap Revenge 3 was a very popular game when it was a paid application on the iTunes App Store. However Tapulous decided to make Tap Tap Revenge 3 [iTunes link] even more popular by offering it for free, but still make money from in-app purchases in the form of song downloads. As a result of making the application available for free, Tap Tap Revenge 3 was downloaded 2 million times. On Christmas day, Tap Tap Revenge 3 was downloaded 700,000 times.
Categories Apple App Store, Tap Tap Revenge 3, Tapulous
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Tapulous Earns About $1 Million Per Month From App Store
Tapulous hit a rough patch in September 2008 when the company lost their whole development team, but they were able to quickly recover. Today the company has about 20 employees and makes about $1 million per month. This further proves that game developer companies can make some solid revenues from the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store.
Tapulous’ game Tap Tap Revenge has been installed about 20 million times and has been played by gamers around 600 million times. comScore even predicted that Tap Tap Revenge has been installed by about one-third of all Apple application users. Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem believes that mobile app commerce is going to see tremendous growth over the next two years.
“It’s going to be big and all of a sudden people are going to say, ‘holy cow, where did those guys come from?’” stated Decrem in an interview with Reuters. Tapulous raised a total of $2.8 million from venture capitalists. Khosla Ventures and Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com CEO) are two major investors in Tapulous. Tapulous earns revenue through the game purchase prices and in-app song downloads.
Categories Apple App Store, Apple Inc., Marc Benioff, Tapulous
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On The 12 Days Of Christmas, My iPhone Gave To Me [VIDEO]
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has released a new commercial that will get you into the holiday spirit. It is a parody of the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and it highlights some of the applications on the App Store. Below is the video:
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RedLaser iPhone Application Hits Over $1 Million In Revenue
Occipital has made over $1 million in revenue from their iPhone application RedLaser. The RedLaser application has been in the top 5 of the Apple App Store for over 3 months now. Occipital did not have a marketing budget whatsoever. The RedLaser application grew with the help of word-of-mouth. Occipital co-founder Jeff Powers said that RedLaser was released this past May, but it did not have any traction.
Occipital released an update shortly after that made the application work properly. After that RedLaser really started growing. RedLaser [iTunes link] barely received any press after the update was made. Occipital has only 2 employees and sells about 6,000 of their application per day with a $1.99 price. The Wall Street Journal and Martha Stewart recently gave the application some publicity. Occipital claims that Martha Stewart’s publicity helped increase sales by about 1,000.
What does RedLaser do? The application scans barcodes using the iPhone camera and searches for the item across many e-retailers. Price comparisons are provided shortly after scanning the item. It is like the Shazam of shopping.
Categories Apple App Store, Apple Inc., Jeff Powers, Occipital, RedLaser
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Battleship Arrives On The iPhone App Store For $2.99
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) has developed the iPhone application for popular board game Battleship. If you have not played the board game, it works by reading off a number and letter from a grid. If that number and letter combination corresponds with water, then it is a miss. If the number and letter combination corresponds with a ship placement, it counts as a hit. The iPhone application game has graphics and 3D effects. There are also new super weapons and different play modes. The iPhone game can be played two player using WiFi or Bluetooth. Battleship sells for $2.99 and you can download it now [iTunes link].
Categories Apple App Store, Apple Inc., Battleship, EA, Electronic Arts Inc.
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FitnessKeeper Raises $400,000 In Seed Funding From LaunchCapital
FitnessKeeper is the company behind RunKeeper Pro, an iPhone application that uses the GPS technology in the phone. RunKeeper is used for tracking fitness activities, map integration, and there is a personal dashboard. FitnessKeeper has support for simultaneous music too. Photos taken while running using the application can be geotagged as well.
As a result of the successful application, FitnessKeeper has raised $400,000 in seed funding from several investors. FitnessKeeper founder and CEO Jason Jacobs said “There are some real proof points we think we can hit with this money so that we can be in position to either never need another dime, or to raise another, much larger round from a position of much greater strength.”
The $400,000 in funding is provided by LaunchCapital as well as Don McLagan (CEO of Compete.com), Dave Balter (CEO of BzzAgent), and Will Herman (founder of Viewlogic). Balter and McLagan are advisors at FitnessKeeper.