Movile’s future-facing project Zeewe announced today the availability of its new FriendZee API, which makes it easy for web app developers to add leaderboards and social features to their mobile web apps. It’s like OpenFeint (acquired this Spring by Japanese gaming company GREE for $100m), but for all kinds of apps beyond games and...
iPhone Users See Highest Video Data Consumption Because of the capabilities of today’s smartphones, the video consumption behavior on these devices now mimics that of laptop computers, says Bytemobile. On the networks analyzed, video accounted for 52% of the data consumed on laptop and Android devices, but it was even higher on iPhones (58%)....
So you’ve set up your small business’s Facebook Page. You’ve even optimized it for search engines. The “likes” are just pouring in. What’s next? If you haven’t already, you might try taking Facebook’s social advertising offerings for a spin. The ability to target ads to people based on very specific criteria and cap your...
We’ve had crowd-sourced book reviews (Amazon), crowd-source location (Foursquare, Waze), so why not a crowd-sourced advertising network? Sounds crazy? Well the fact is display banner ads have been just a tiny bit dissappointing and basically create clutter on the real estate of the web. At the same time companies try to monetize what they...
This post is about an iPad application that’s over two months old and has already been chosen as an App Store app of the week. But I’d never heard of it, and, given that the app only has around 95 reviews, I’m guessing a lot of TechCrunch readers haven’t seen it either. And it’s...
Given that we cover a lot of news on Facebook’s ad product developments, I thought I’d provide some tips on how to run an effective ad campaign and how to get the best return on your advertising spend. Optimising your ad campaign once it’s been set up is incredibly important and is often something...
Image: Screenshot illustration Foursquare just updated its iPhone app, streamlining the check-in process. Now, there’s a dedicated “check in” button in the middle of the iPhone app menu bar, and some other cosmetic changes. It doesn’t require any fewer steps, but it looks like check-ins will be faster now than before. Foursquare has also...
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We first met with Jason L. Baptiste and Andres Barreto, the founders of Onswipe on a snowy day in late January in New York City for an interview titled, Forget apps, Onswipe is the future of publishing. The two entrepreneurs were poised for the age of the tablet, both passionate writers who wanted to make...
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