jamescoops

Biggest insight - 'go for sustainable app marketing strategies not just burst download campaigns'

Thanks for posting this gorkemcetin - this is james from mobyaffiliates - we got a lot more similar lists on the blog covering other areas of mobile development and marketing

Yes what is the difference between bandit and MVT?

Is this the same as multi-variate testing?

Getjar are hardly good guys themselves. They knocked my mobile web directory mjelly.com off their index a while ago even though it had been listed in there for years. This was because they claimed it was a competitor to getjar. They recently did the same with Opera.

You can try things like getjar.com which offer a cost per download model. Or list your app on my directory @ mjelly.com!

Children of the Dust is a great book about what happens after a Nuclear attack - conclusion - best thing is to die.

These are all java downloads e.g. phones other than iphone.

To date mobile sites and apps have really suffered from an inability to effectively use viral marketing. However, this is no longer the case - Heysan! is one of the mobile startups pioneering viral marketing on mobile. Big up!

they are good citizens too - running hacker events from their office

he is echoing bubblegeneration.com

so are songkick moving to US?

love noah's stuff wish he blogged a bit more - classic thing he does is email anyone that comments on his blog

Killer idea - potential to create a lot of value for people

Ok am going to try using groupspaces ...

might be there at 6pm if its still going down

Thanks guys much appreciated - the key thing has got to be getting through the spam filter

Mxit.co.za is probably the worlds most successful mobile social network in terms of getting critical mass

Africa isn't completely befeft of large scale corporations - there are the big mobile phone companies Celtel, MTN, plus Naspers (Pay TV, newspapers, internet in SA, interests in online companies in Eastern Europe), the big mining operations, De Beers?

One question i have is how the accounting is done for the $200k profit, bearing in mind the app benefits from the wider business (Carsonified events etc). As a standalone app it might be paying more for marketing, legal/ accounting, management overhead etc

they are good citizens too - big up for the YC News meetup last Friday :-)

Just be a decent person - if you're at an event and talking to someone and another person is hovering near by, bring them into your conversation. Be friendly, try and help people etc

Solid technology, not so good marketing and positioning

i dont think arrington understands mobile at all ... mobilecrunch has always been awful, this piece puts waaay too much weight on the iphone - its a tiny proportion of the mobile installed base.

i think you're wrong about Octopart - they are optmising around individual part terms e.g. http://octopart.com/category--Integrated+Circuits--Semicondu... not for a generic "electronic parts" ranking. Their recent user data indicates this has been pretty successful - basically SEO - adding categories to search.

Hey maybe the idea could still have worked but in a radically different form e.g. some kind of about.com/ adsense content syndication hoover. Maybe it was the focus on high quality content/ journalism that was the wrong direction - I'd encourage you to think about other ways it might work if you started from first principles.

@ attention seeker - just leave if you dont like it. I bet you come back and lurk now and again :-)

big props and well deserved

some really great design work coming out from the current batch - v. fresh and upfront

>>6. There were issues with labor exploitation, and I can't argue that this isn't a problem. Unless you're working in construction or something along those lines, this isn't going to affect you. I have never met anybody (neither has anybody I know) that has had their passport taken from them for a decade.

Well hey unless you hang out with penniless migrant workers you're not likely to hear of it are you?!