Archive for app store

‘Bang With Friends’ Gets Booted From App Store

May 17, 2013 / Christina Warren / No comments
Bwf-mobile
Feed-twFeed-fb

We might need to call it "Banned With Friends." A week after debuting the new mobile client for anonymous friend banging, the iOS version of Bang With Friends (BWF) was removed from the App Store by Apple.

Bang With Friends debuted in January and quickly took off in popularity. The concept is simple: Users log in with Facebook and select what friends they want to bang. Only friends that have mutually selected the other user show-up in a "down to bang" queue.

The app claims more than 1 million users, even though it's not without its share of controversy. In addition to questions about creepy factor, the anonymity of users has come into question. Earlier this month, it became possible to find out if some of your friends had signed-up for the service on Facebook. A mobile version for iOS and Android debuted last week. Read more...

More about Apple, App Store, Tech, Mobile, and Bang With Friends
Category: app store, apple, Bang With Friends, Mobile, Tech /

Path Gains Ground Among U.S. Users

April 25, 2013 / Cameron Scott / No comments

Path may finally be taking off in the United States, according to a Wall Street Journal interview with CEO Dave Morin.

It’s now in the top 20 most-downloaded apps in the App Store, and it’s adding a million registered users a week, Morin said.

The mobile-only social network, which claims to offer a more intimate experience than Facebook, has drawn most of its users from Asia.

But since it launched version 3.0 in March, Path has been gaining ground in the United States, Morin told the Journal. The network has seen spikes in western U.S. cities, including Phoenix, Denver, Los Angeles, and in New York.

The update introduced messaging, as well as stickers, geared at the core Asian audience.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Category: app store, Dave Morin, Emerging Social Networks, iOS, News, path, Wall Street Journal /

Social Travel Apps Thrive as App Store Hits 40 Billion Downloads

January 7, 2013 / Devon Glenn / No comments

Apple announced today that its App Store customers have downloaded more than 40 billion apps. It was a record-breaking year, the company said, with nearly 20 billion apps downloaded in 2012 and two billion downloads in December alone.

Aside from popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, social applications for travelers are doing especially well. On AppData’s leaderboard for iOS apps, Yelp is ranked #2 among travel apps (just behind Google Earth), with TripAdvisor at #12, Uber at #15, and Airbnb at #21.

Uber and Airbnb now have millions of users on iOS, according to Apple. Uber rolled out changes to its iOS app in December that included an improved interface, fare estimates, and location data from Foursquare. Airbnb also got an upgrade in June with a beautiful new design, traveler wish lists, and curated lists.

Overall, there are 775,000 apps for iPhone, iPad,and iPod touch; and 300,000 native iPad apps in 23 categories. Apple counts 500 million active accounts in 155 countries worldwide.

Image by musicman.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Category: 40 billion downloads, Airbnb, app store, apple, Emerging Social Networks, News, travel apps, Uber /

Facebook Smartphone in the Works? | Apple Rejects Flattr Apps | Wayne Coyne Talks Twitter

May 29, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

 Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email.

A Facebook Smartphone in 2013? (Los Angeles Times)
Can a Facebook smartphone solve the social media company’s mobile problem? Just one week after Facebook’s less-than-stellar IPO comes news that the social network is beefing up its engineering staff in the hopes of releasing a Facebook smartphone by 2013. GigaOM Does it make any sense for Facebook to build its own smartphone? Some argue that this would be a natural extension of the social network’s strategy. The Next Web But the tech world consensus is that it would be a nightmare for Facebook if it got into the mobile hardware game. A Facebook phone, which has been rumored for quite some time, could be one of the only ways for the company to not only control the experience of its mobile users, but properly iterate and hack out a better mobile experience overall. The New York Times This would be Facebook’s third effort at building a smartphone, said one person briefed on the plans and one who was recruited. In 2010, TechCrunch reported that Facebook was working on a smartphone. The project crumbled after the company realized the difficulties involved, according to people who had worked on it. AP Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, in a Chinese TV documentary about the country’s police force. The documentary by CCTV was part of a series on Chinese police and high-tech crime-solving methods. continued…

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Category: AP, AP Stylebook, app store, associated press, China, Chinese documentary, Elevator Pitch, facebook, Facebook smartphone, Flattr, Fondu, Gauri Manglik, mark zuckerberg, microsoft, Newsfeed, Priscilla Chan, Sina Weibo, skype, Social Media, travelers, twitter, Wayne Coyne /

72 Percent of iPhone App Revenue Comes from Apps Featuring In-App Purchases

October 18, 2011 / Azam Khan / No comments

Distimo, the app store market tracking service, continues to reveal the importance of the freemium model. Free app downloads have grown 34 percent since 2010 in contrast to paid app downloads which grew by 7 percent. In the past the firm also reported a 10x growth in freemium revenue from top releases on the App Store.  continued…

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Category: Android, app store, apple, Applications, Mobile Games, social games, Social Gaming /

DJ’s Can Now Spin On the Go with Turntable.fm

September 21, 2011 / Reid McCarter / No comments

Have you ever seen a DJ playing a set while walking down the street? I haven’t. But the wonders of modern technology continue to astound us by taking impossible (and maybe even unnecessary) scenarios and translating them to reality. Hence the adaptation of Turntable.fm, the social music service that digitizes DJing, to an iPhone app — the exact scientific breakthrough we need to move forward in the field of mobile party-starting.

continued…

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Category: app store, Applications, facebook, iphone, Mobile Games, Mobile Music, Turntable.fm, Turntable.fm iPhone /