Entries Tagged as 'Business'

Monday, July 12th, 2010

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.… Now we’ve made it.

You’re reading the tapadoo blog. Did you know that as well as [...]

Monday, June 21st, 2010

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 who within the iPhone development community, Steven needs no introduction. For the rest of [...]

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

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 it.
That project is Firepit.

What is Firepit?
Firepit is

A web based framework
For bands going [...]

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

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 when he responded to my tweet looking for iPhone developers.
You may know [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Why App distribution policy could be bad for iPad

I see lots of people thinking of great ideas for the iPad. I agree with pretty much all of them. Anywhere where there’s a person carrying a handheld device, or indeed a notepad an pen, could be a potential application. Here’s a few examples

Waiter taking orders at a table
UPS Delivery guy
Gas man [...]

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The iPhone killer is on the way

The new windows 7 phone is upon us. Finally there’s an “iPhone killer”!!!
Ehhhhh. No.
There will be an iPhone killer. But it’s not going be today tomorrow. The iPhone is just far too advanced of any competition.
Why? Apple have one thing in spades that no other computer or handset manufacturer has: Taste.
This seems [...]

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Networking Out the Wazoo

We’ve got biz camps and bar camps, open coffees, networking (with or without speed), developer garages, meetups, tweetups, seminars, congresses and a whole host of other such events. One could easily spend their entire week going to events to network and get one’s business “out there”.
But in these difficult times, attendance at these [...]