Erick Schonfeld
iDroid App Rejected By Apple. Well, Duh.
Here’s a tip for all you iPhone app developers out there. If you want to make sure your app doesn’t join the long list of rejected iPhone apps out there, make sure it doesn’t advertise a competing product, especially if that product runs the Android operating system. Swavv Apps (creators of Beer Pong) learned that lesson recently when they tried to get their iDroid app past the App Store censors
It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans
In this age of instant Internet celebrity, anyone can become famous for 15 seconds (to rework Andy Warhol’s oft-quoted maxim ). But what does famous mean exactly when anyone can have a Facebook fan page—those public pages on Facebook set up by brands, media outlets, celebs, and wanna-be celebs. As it turns out, being popular is not as easy as it looks
Yahoo Loses The Brains Behind Boss
The brains behind Yahoo Boss , a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier this year, Singh was named to Technology Review’ s 35 Under 35 list at the age of 24
Snapture iPhone App Adds Twitter And Facebook Sharing
One of the most popular paid photo apps for the iPhone, Snapture ( iTunes link ) just got a few upgrades. The new features include the ability to share photos on either Twitter or Facebook, a new tap-to-focus capability, and different color modes (black & white, sepia, negative)
Online Advertising In The U.S Begins To Stabilize
Online advertising revenues in the U.S. seem to be stabilizing. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released third-quarter figures showing that online advertising in the U.S
Just In Time For #Thanksgiving, TurkeyTwitter Gathers All The #Thankful Tweets
Want to know what people are thankful for this Thanksgiving? You can be sure many will be Tweeting about it. Tomorrow if you search #thanksgiving or #thankful on Twitter search, you will get a good sense of what thanks people are sharing on Twitter.
Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up
Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them. Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because it’s so much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together into what is known in the trade as “paragraphs.” Today, blogs are doing fine, while Twitter is struggling with flattening growth, at least to its Website Twitter.com (clients like Seesmic and TweetDeck have seen no slowdown )
Microsoft Loses Its CFO, Promotes From Within
Microsoft is losing its chief financial officer, Chris Liddell (pictured right), who will be departing the company at the end of the year. Liddell will be replaced by Peter Klein, the current CFO of Microsoft’s Business Division
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