Getting started with online marketing
As a web developer, I work with a lot of entrepreneurs: some are established and looking for a simple web presence, but the vast majority are building something completely new, and they need help...
View Article21 Creative Ways To Increase Your Facebook Fanbase
Yesterday, we created a Facebook page for Draconis (yes, it took us this long to do it). For now, it’s just mirroring our blog content, but we may do more with it in the future. In the meantime, I was...
View ArticleWhen To Place Ads On Your Site
Many clients have approached us for suggestions to monetize their site, and invariably there are questions about advertising. Although it’s easy to place ads on your site, there are reasons why it may...
View ArticleApple’s Thoughts on Flash
There’s a very interesting article up on Apple’s site from Steve Jobs himself discussing the decision to keep Flash off Apple iPhones and iPads. I thought I’d select a couple of the most interesting:...
View ArticleHow Online Businesses Make Money
The majority of people online aren’t on the Internet to make money. Instead, they use the Internet for things like entertainment, news, games, and keeping up with friends and family. However, for those...
View ArticleHow to Use a Blog to Increase Organic Traffic
There are many great reasons for businesses to blog but one clearly stands out, increasing your keyword rankings and growing your organic search traffic. via How to Use a Blog to Increase Organic...
View ArticleFrom Zero to a Million Users
Xobni and Dropbox, two highly successful VC-backed ventures, had an impressive growth in their users within a fairly short period of time (2 million users within 2 years). Adam Smith of Xobni has a...
View ArticleWhy Email Confirmations Are Bad
When designing a web application it’s common to see the following user registration process: User fills out the registration form, including their email and password. After submitting, the user is told...
View ArticleGetting your iOS app to talk to web services and APIs
Many iOS apps connect to HTTP-based APIs, which may be RESTful but are often just XML and JSON responses to various URLs with various methods (usually a GET or POST, but also PUT and DELETE). There’s...
View ArticleMake music on the iPad with Shapemix
We’ve been working on a fun, powerful, music-making iPad app called Shapemix and are thrilled to see it go live in the App Store! We’ve been working with Colin Owens and his team to build the app and...
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