Category Archives: Business

Can paid ads in social media help recruit great talent?

Guest Blog Post by John Dennehy, Zartis. Zartis is a social recruiting tool to help growing companies attract and hire great people; Think of us as a talent magnet. We’re constantly trying to find creative ways to help high tech [...]

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DoneDeal for Android: Some interesting statistics

As some of you may or may not know, we released the official DoneDeal app for Android on January 24th. This surprised some people, as they thought we were solely an iOS development house. In fact, we’re a lover of [...]

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Why you shouldn’t expect automatic upgrades to the latest version of Android

It must be tough working for an Android handset manufacturer if you’re the guy who manages their social media presence. Every time you have something to say, no matter what that is, you have to deal with an Android power [...]

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No. HTML5 is NOT the Answer

The cross platform versus native app question comes up again and again. Everyone knows where we stand on this; I truly believe that natively written apps, targeted for iOS, or Android, or Windows Phone 7, etc. produce more polished, better, [...]

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Then you go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like “Verified By Visa”

Every time I see “Verified by Visa” I shudder I was attempting to purchase some equipment this morning. As I went to the online checkout, I was brought to the “Verified By Visa” page. Cue shuddering. Here’s the problem: It [...]

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On cross platform toolkits

With the recent Nokia-Microsoft announcement, the smartphone race just got a shot in the arm. There will now be 3 main players in the smartphone and apps market. They are of course: iOS Running on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and [...]

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Now we’ve made it

I’ll be speaking at the dot conf next week. I’ve done a number of speaking engagements; Usually about iPhone development, and our experiences of becoming an iPhone developer. Somebody tweeted this to me today What can I say..Immortalised in Lego.… [...]

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We got Steve

A few weeks back, as the work continued to mount, we realised it was time to expand again. We put out a tweet looking for an intern, and were delighted that Steven Troughton-Smith expressed an interest. For those of you [...]

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Project Firepit

We’ve had our heads down for a couple of months. This is because we’ve been working on a project we’re very excited about. Now that our initial release is out the door, we’re happy to give out some information about [...]

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Welcome Adam

I’m stoked about this. This morning, I’m welcoming Adam McCarthy into tapadoo. I’d already known Adam though twitter as the guy who was giving Mac keyboard shortcut advice, and later got to meet him an XCake meeting. I was delighted [...]

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