Steal My Ideas – Fighting Back Against An IP Culture

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.” – Bill Gates I was watching Shark Tank the other day and I got fired up. The sharks were being pitched by a guy who was trying to sell them a patent and the intellectual property (IP) of a clothing technology called Technology Enabled Clothing but [...]

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The Perfect App – “Draw Something” Sketches Excellence

“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.” – Niklaus Wirth Something Like a Phenomenon Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you’ve seen Draw Something firmly entrenched at [...]

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iPad 3 for App Developers – What You Need To Know

A Whole New World – Shiny, Shimmering, Splendid I thought I should write a quick post on the iPad 3 release in relation to how it impacts anyone developing an app for the iPad. My heart goes out to all of you who were about to release your new app and now have to re-do [...]

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The Keyword Conclusion – Exact Match on Success

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results” – Winston Churchill The Key Word is Keyword This is a follow up to the last post I wrote about the Great Icon Experiment and how I realized that just updating the icon and screen shots were not enough to bring me to the [...]

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The Great Icon Experiment – A Great Failure

“Yesterday’s failures are today’s seeds.” – Martha McCormick I Con Do It! For the past 6 months and for the next 200 months, I plan on uncovering as much information as I possibly can about the abyss of the iTunes store and app marketplace. There is seemingly no clear path to success the way there [...]

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