s the head of a software services company, I am often asked to advise clients on strategic technological decisions. The most common query nowadays is which framework to choose for mobile app development.…
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For the Future of Mobile Advertising, Look to the Music Industry
TechCrunch's Jon Evans offers a useful survey of the reactions elicited by Apple's decision to support content-blocking browser extensions in iOS 9. Notwithstanding the breast-beating of Marco Arment (who removed his hit ad blocker from the App Store after two days because it "just didn't feel good"), I…
Reddit's Anti-Spamming Policy is Counterproductive
Update: Looks like I got banned from Reddit for posting this. That makes me sad. In the mid-to-late aughts, when I was last blogging regularly, I would hustle by any means necessary to get my posts read and grow my RSS subscriber base. It was immensely satisfying when I finally…
Apple's New App Name Reservation Policy Makes Life Easier For Developers (and App Name Squatters)
If you have ever developed a complex iOS app, there's a good chance that you have bumped into iTunes app name expiry. If so, you can skip the next couple of paragraphs. Often a new iOS development project starts out not just with a great idea, but also with a…
Advertisers Should Love AdBlock Plus
Last weekend On The Media ran a repeat airing of their excellent episode on online business models. One of the segments is an interview with AdBlock Plus CEO Till Faida, who defends their eyebrow-raising business model of charging large companies to not block their ads. Yesterday Salon ran an article…
The Case Against Advertising
Dalton Caldwell, an Internet entrepreneur, made a splash recently by announcing a paid alternative to Twitter and Facebook. His argument is that, because they are beholden to advertisers, these social feed platforms inevitably adopt policies that are hostile to users and third-party developers. By charging a direct fee instead, a…