Announcing Dogpatch Labs Palo Alto & Europe
September 29, 2011 – 8:27 am | 349 Comments

In early September, we got the unfortunate news that the San Francisco Port Authority was closing Pier 38 (home to Dogpatch Labs San Francisco).

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The Next Step in iPhone Gaming: Nintendo NES
March 27, 2009 – 8:15 pm | 696 Comments
The Next Step in iPhone Gaming: Nintendo NES

At the break of the new year, I listed 20 predictions for Digital Media in 2009. The third prediction was:
iPhone Gaming Will Progress Beyond Novelty
At the time of that article, the biggest application was …

Amazon Experiments with Customer Reviews, Also Launches Amazon Vine
March 25, 2009 – 6:44 pm | 271 Comments
Amazon Experiments with Customer Reviews, Also Launches Amazon Vine

I buy everything on Amazon and rely on their customer reviews more-so than their product descriptions, recommendations, etc. My Amazon experience is normally something like this:
- visit Amazon.com with some intent / need, usually using …

InGameNow Adds Real Time Box Scores
March 25, 2009 – 4:28 pm | 759 Comments
InGameNow Adds Real Time Box Scores

On the heals of the new live scoreboard integration within our iPhone Apps, InGameNow has added real-time boxs cores. The box scores appear on game pages – they update for live games and are chronicled …

NCAA Basketball iPhone App for March Madness
March 17, 2009 – 2:47 pm | 72 Comments
NCAA Basketball iPhone App for March Madness

InGameNow has released updates to all of its iPhone Apps – just in time for March Madness and the NCAA Tournament:
- Live scoreboard
- New format for in game results / chatter
- Live scores in the …

Widgetbox Introduces Facebook App Compatibility
March 17, 2009 – 8:44 am | 215 Comments

Last week, Widgetbox launched the ability to simply (a couple clicks) turn your widgets into Facebook Applications. They run on the profile page, have their own ‘canvas page’, are sharable, and hit the Facebook newsfeed…. …

Twitter, Facebook’s Feed, Facebook Connect and Seesmic: Navigating it All
March 17, 2009 – 7:52 am | 262 Comments
Twitter, Facebook’s Feed, Facebook Connect and Seesmic: Navigating it All

I’ve been using Seesmic’s Adobe Air Facebook application for a few days now. Despite all of it’s inadequacies (see below), it raises a larger question to me – and one that I have written about …

Apple’s App Store Going Premium Apps?
March 14, 2009 – 2:43 pm | 317 Comments
Apple’s App Store Going Premium Apps?

The hot weekend rumor is that Apple will be adding its own version of a Rodeo Drive within the App Store. The Premium Store (if you will) will be a showcase for higher end applications …

Hulu In-Video Ads Offer Choice: Preroll or Midstream?
March 14, 2009 – 2:25 pm | 2 Comments
Hulu In-Video Ads Offer Choice: Preroll or Midstream?

Like 100,000s of others, I cam to Hulu to watch the Jim Cramer / Jon Stewart debate… so what if it was my fifth viewing?
Before the video played, I got the following option:
- watch …

Facebook Connects Comes to iPhone, Game-Changing
March 14, 2009 – 2:14 pm | 267 Comments
Facebook Connects Comes to iPhone, Game-Changing

The best iPhone Apps are those that engage across other properties beyond the iPhone. Zynga, SGN, Playfish and others iPhone power-developers have done a brilliant job of those. For most though, building cross-platform, socially-aware applications …

Adam Carolla Sets Podcast World Record: 550,000+ Downloads of Single Podcast
March 8, 2009 – 4:42 pm | 224 Comments

When Adam Carolla started his new podcast series, I wrote that radio and satellite radio was officially dead… why would talent like Adam Carolla stick with those formats when they can reach instant success via …

Apple iPhone Ad Shakes Up ESPN.com
March 8, 2009 – 4:17 pm | 290 Comments
Apple iPhone Ad Shakes Up ESPN.com

I’ve written about Apple’s innovative ad units before – in particular, on Yahoo.
And, I’ve criticized ESPN’s new ad formats before.
Today, the two came together in a great way: Apple is running another experiential, rich-media …

Apple’s Full Page New York Times Ad: All About the Apps
March 8, 2009 – 4:07 pm | 432 Comments
Apple’s Full Page New York Times Ad: All About the Apps

Flipping through the New York Times today, I noticed this full page ad for Apple’s iPhone which notably doesn’t even mention the iPhone itself. The ad is entirely about the App Store and the breadth …