Social media has quickly emerged as a significant part of an average consumer's daily life. Each day an individual participates in social media they are providing valuable data about themselves to those keeping track. This data, however, is only as valuable as their ability to analyze and uncover the underlying connections, relationships and patterns. There is an immense loss of opportunity if businesses are not able to connect the dots to uncover insightful, useful patterns among the disparate [...]

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Apple's iCloud-based music syncing service iTunes Match is the largest component of its announcements at WWDC that is as of yet unreleased. The service allows users to compare their personal...

Read More: iTunes Match turned back on for developers, heralds imminent release

Microsoft has today responded to a minor outcry in the Windows Phone development community over a set of emails that had been sent out, informing developers that their accounts on App Hub (the WP7 developer back-end) were set to soon expire. The problem that cropped up was that when a developer went to renew, the [...]

Read More: Microsoft reassures Windows Phone developers over App Hub flap

Microsoft has today responded to a minor outcry in the Windows Phone development community over a set of emails that had been sent out, informing developers that their accounts on...

Read More: Microsoft reassures Windows Phone developers over App Hub flap

Game developers, please take this very short survey on the future of Google+ games, which we'll be using for Social Times' next report on the subject. How important an opportunity is Google+ games for you? Will it become a competitor against Facebook and Apple's iOS? Has Google's 5% commission promotional offer caused you to seriously investigate Google+ as a platform? Click here to answer those questions and more. Early next month, we'll be sharing the results here, and on SocialTimes Pro. Tha [...]

Read More: Vote: Game Developers, What’s the Future of Google+ Games?

Mobile developers: make your apps social with Socialize. Socialize helps developers make their apps social. Think about how to make your app have comments and likes, just like Instagram does. That's what Socialize does, and here the execs show it to me and tell me about what their company and technology does. Plus you get [...]

Read More: Developers: Socialize Helps Make Your New App More Social

Many of the most successful iOS games are not sold by big name publishers like Electronic Arts. Rather, they're from smaller developers and are not even sold at all, but given away in the App Store’s Free section, earning their revenue via in-app payments. Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, recently reported that of the Top 100 grossing iOS games this June, 65% were freemium. This analysis is consistent with data samples taken from AppData.com, Inside Network’s service that tracks app and d [...]

Read More: REPORT: How Free-to-Play iOS Game Developers Thrive in a Market Forecast to Be 200M by 2012

After Hewlett-Packard announced the death of the TouchPad and webOS phones, Microsoft's Brandon Watson tweeted a message to webOS developers. Here's a screenshot of his tweet. The large response he received was completely unexpected, causing him to make a change in the way he decided to respond to everyone. As of this morning, he has ...

Read More: Microsoft’s Recruitment Attempt to webOS Developers Receives 1000 Responses

You might be aware that Amazon has an Android AppStore and that its most compelling feature is that every day Amazon provides an app for free that you otherwise would need to buy. I've assumed that Amazon brokers deals with the companies selling those apps where they got some compensation for the free app, but a developer has disclosed that to not be the case.


Read More: Amazon Free App Of The Day Not Such A Good Deal For Developers

Twitter has topped the 1 million mark in registered applications, from more than 750,000 developers, and the microblogging site launched a new Twitter Developers site to kick off its quest for the next million.

Read More: Twitter Tops 1M Registered Apps, Debuts New Twitter Developers Site

7pm EST, Monday July 11th Help us crowdsource the social strategy for a new company every week during the #socialfresh Twitter chat. Tonight's #SocialFresh Twitter chat featured company is Gunn Jerkens. They are a Real Estate Marketing company looking for: Social strategies that can be employed to generate a large and qualified online following. How to draw more [...]

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There was a lot of good economic news in the mobile technology world this week. The entire industry is forecast to generate about $1.3 trillion in revenue this year.If the Mobile Tech Industry Was a Country, Its GDP Would be #13 in the WorldApple reported that they have paid out $2.5 billion to iPhone and iPad app developers.Apple: 15+ Billion Apps Downloaded, $2.5 Billion Paid to DevelopersThe good news continues for mobile app developers in this All Things D article.Smartphone Job Market Ripe [...]

Read More: Good News for Mobile App Developers – Except Those Building for BlackBerry or Windows Phone

Years ago McDonalds used the slogan “Over N billions served” where N changed as the number of customers served grew ever larger. Apple could use a similar slogan for their apps. They announced this week that more than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from their App Store.Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 15 BillionHere are some other numbers revealed in the press release:- More than 425,000 apps of all kinds
- More than 100,000 apps specifically for the iPad
- 20 categori [...]

Read More: Apple: 15+ Billion Apps Downloaded, $2.5 Billion Paid to Developers

Two weeks ago a number of Facebook developers logged into the site to horrible news: their applications had suddenly been disabled without warning. The culprit was Facebook's spam-fighting bot, which automatically tracks the amount of negative feedback an application receives from users and blocks apps that are faring especially poorly (since they're probably spammy). But the bot was acting more aggressive than it should have been, and developers didn't have a way to tell how frequently users we [...]

Read More: Facebook Now Lets App Developers See Their Spam Scores