Posted on April 20, 2011
by Peter
in Business, Marketing, software
I was having an interesting conversation the other day with a friend who’s creating a platform for game developers to add brands to a game. They’re building some really cool tech around the idea, not unlike AdWords/AdSense for virtual goods or in-game achievements, both for social and more traditional console games. I think it’s quite [...]
Posted on July 28, 2009
by Peter
in Design, Internet, social network, software
If there was any doubt about the direction Twitter might be headed as a company, I think this new design clears that right up.
Posted on December 31, 2008
by Peter
in software
It’s not often I get excited about shopping carts. But I just discovered Foxy Cart and it looks like the shopping cart solution I’ve been wanting for as long I can remember. At Joby we use Netsuite for our shopping cart, and one of my chief frustrations is how locked in we are to their [...]
Posted on June 12, 2008
by Peter
in Apple, social network, software, video
Streaming mobile video service, Qik, has demoed a version of their service which will work on the iPhone. As Mashable reports, they will be facing competition from Flixwagon, who will also be releasing such a service. Here’s a video of their demo:
Posted on June 3, 2008
by Peter
in Business, mobile, software
I’ve been working on a post talking about the challenges that Twitter has faced lately and why I think they’re on shaky ground these days, but before I get a chance to finish it and post it here I figured I’d link to a post on the Twitter blog where they answer a number of [...]
Posted on May 22, 2008
by Peter
in Business, software
The awesome folks over at Get Satisfaction launched two sweet new features today. I’m extremely pleased to add that Joby was among the very first to implement beta versions of their new Help Center software. Over the past few days I’ve been working on getting our Joby version of the Help Center up and running, [...]
Posted on April 21, 2008
by Peter
in mobile, software
There are few tech things I love more than my dear, sweet Blackberry (recent crashing issues notwithstanding), but one thing that comes close is Twitter. So what could be better than something which marries the two? In an attempt to do just that I downloaded Twitterberry the other day to test it as a client [...]