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AdBlock’s acceptable ads won’t be 4 Jan 2012 | 06:26 am
Like Rob, I’m intrigued by AdBlock Plus’ decision to start letting some ‘acceptable’ ads go unblocked by default. This is a very decent way to make revenue – you can charge advertising companies who w...
Setting up Kohana 3.2 on Mac OS X 22 Nov 2011 | 12:58 pm
I’ve been doing more coding than blogging lately. My tool of choice is Kohana, a hierarchical model-view-controller PHP framework – it forces me to follow some rules, and when you’re a relative beginn...
Viewing your iOS application usage 3 Apr 2011 | 05:24 am
Since the release of iOS 3.1 in September 2009, Apple’s App Store has a Genius for Apps feature, which recommends apps based on the other apps you use and just how often and how long you use them. If ...
The Dickbar worked fine 1 Apr 2011 | 01:04 pm
Twitter’s removed the Dickbar, the little visually-distracting bar that showed trending and sponsored topics, from its iOS client. Because of this, a lot of people are drawing a lot of incorrect concl...
Steve Blank’s bubble heresy 14 Mar 2011 | 02:12 am
Albert Camus once said “Every revolutionary ends up becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.” From his recent presentation at SxSW, it looks like Steve Blank’s selected the heretic route. Lightning...
There’s no ‘organic’ on the App Store 12 Mar 2011 | 07:37 am
Some of the top-ranked applications on iTunes purchase application installs. Recently Chris Dixon discovered this, and expressed interest in seeing an ‘organic’ top list with the paid application ins...
Privacy protection may do the opposite 10 Mar 2011 | 04:56 pm
A few years back, I argued that aggressive regulation of ad targeting could actually lead to less privacy, if it forced publishers to make opt-in mandatory. Behavioral targeting could go rather quickl...
Make your product less useful 5 Mar 2011 | 09:35 am
Seriously. Reducing functionality could not just allow you to charge more for your product, it could make it seem more useful to your users. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but I suspect it’s tr...
True worth 20 Aug 2010 | 03:36 am
At pii2010, it’s frequently argued that privacy is something that you’re increasingly going to have to pay for – and that people will, in fact, pay money to preserve their privacy. (I haven’t seen any...
iAds performance – now and later 9 Jul 2010 | 08:49 am
The Next Web writes that an iPhone developer made $1,372 from his first day running iAds. The developer was kind enough to post the following stats from his Apple dashboard: $1,372.20 total revenue ...
