Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster
May 10, 2010 – 4:59 pm | View Comments

We are excited to announce the newest Dogpatch Labs class here in San Francisco. It includes entrepreneurs and companies that have been part of the lab over the last few months and those that just …

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Can the Apple iTV Bridge Family Room & Web? I’ll Bet So.
August 30, 2010 – 3:45 pm | View Comments

Fascinating chart on AlleyInsider this week noting that, for the first time ever, pay TV has lost subscribers. A little earlier in the week, the NYTimes argued that TV is changing (web, applications, on-demand) but …

Why I’m Bullish on Facebook Places: Facebook is 50%+ of iPhone App Usage
August 23, 2010 – 6:39 am | View Comments
Why I’m Bullish on Facebook Places: Facebook is 50%+ of iPhone App Usage

And this is why I am so bullish on Facebook Places:
The two biggest components of a winning location play are:
1. network (and we know that Facebook is the largest at 500m+ users)
2. mobile (geo is …

Doodle Jump Goes Retina on iPhone 4
August 21, 2010 – 5:47 am | View Comments

No real news here – unless you are a huge Doodle Jump fan (one of the highest selling iphone apps of all time – and one of the biggest time sinks of all time).

Promote Your Application Where, When it is Used (Huffington Post Example)
August 7, 2010 – 8:10 am | View Comments

Applications now being built atop:
– mobile web (html5, wap, etc)
– mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, etc)
– browser extensions (chrome, firefox, safari, etc)
– desktop apps (ie adobe air)

Amazon Kindle: Buy Once, Read Anywhere
July 31, 2010 – 3:07 pm | View Comments
Amazon Kindle: Buy Once, Read Anywhere

I have written before about Amazon’s Kindle Ad Units – which are usually excellent. Here is the latest – and you will notice the similarity in prior units. Nevertheless, I love the tagline “Buy Once, …

When Will iOS 4 Hit The iPad??!
July 25, 2010 – 12:41 pm | View Comments
When Will iOS 4 Hit The iPad??!

… So when does iOS 4 arrive for the iPad?
… And why is the gap between releases (iPhone vs iPad) so significant?
I ask because, even as an active iPad fanboy, it really bugs me. …

YouTube’s HTML5 Mobile Site Aims to Drive ‘Home Screen’ Adoption
July 19, 2010 – 6:49 am | View Comments
YouTube’s HTML5 Mobile Site Aims to Drive ‘Home Screen’ Adoption

Last week YouTube Mobile adopted HTML5… it wasn’t long ago that Apple touted YouTube as the iPhone’s original launch partner (via a native application). Their adoption of HTML5 is yet another indication that it is …

Apple iOS4’s Auto Calendar Event Creator
June 28, 2010 – 4:18 am | View Comments
Apple iOS4’s Auto Calendar Event Creator

The best feature of Apple’s iOS4 update that is overshadowed by background applications, folders, etc? Apple now enables calendar event creation contextually and within email exchanges. When a date and time are written in an …

Apple iPad: 3rd Fastest Selling Device (Behind Nintendo Wii & DS)
June 13, 2010 – 8:12 am | View Comments
Apple iPad: 3rd Fastest Selling Device (Behind Nintendo Wii & DS)

If there is a voice for mobile growth, Mary Meeker is it.
And she has 50+ slides of charts and data to prove her bullishness.
Below is the latest version of her Internet Trends deck (updated …

AT&T Pushing Additional iPhones Between Android & Apple Announcements?
May 20, 2010 – 1:35 pm | View Comments

My day of short blog posts continues….
The below email from AT&T (‘Add an iPhone today’) is interesting because:
- it arrived in my inbox a few days ago (May 15)

Android: “Traffic Growing at Compounded Monthly Rate of 32% per Month”
April 28, 2010 – 4:20 pm | View Comments
Android: “Traffic Growing at Compounded Monthly Rate of 32% per Month”

For mobile news, the best reading each month is the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report (see previous coverage here). The March 2010 report is noteworthy for a few reasons and have a consistent theme: Android has …

iPhone OS 4: Five Takeaways
April 8, 2010 – 12:04 pm | View Comments
iPhone OS 4: Five Takeaways

Today Apple announced iPhone OS 4 – which ships in the summer for the iPhone and iPod Touch and in the winter for the iPad. Lots of incremental and much needed changes (ie App Folders) …