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WIP is joining GSMA, TNSI, Rogers, TELUS, and Bell on a cross country road trip to celebrate the launch of the GSMA OneAPI Gateway. We've just confirmed the list of events and it is packed with hackathons, 1 on 1 meetings, technical presentations and prizes! If you live in any of these cities listed below, we've love to meet you!
MONTREAL
Random Hacks Of Kindness Montreal June 1 - 3 (Fri – Sun)
Location: Concordia University, EV Building 11th floor, 1515 St Catherine St. West
June 1 – 6pm reception
June 2 - 10-11am Workshop (Bill Lee -WIP Developer Evangelist Army )
June 3 - 3pm Judging (Kamil Vahidy – TELUS) Note: Almost sold out – over 70 registered! Register More Information
Mobile Monday Montreal June 4 (Monday)
Location: TBA
6:30pm to 9:30pm Sponsorship and Exhibit Table (Caroline Lewko, Sam Chan - WIP; David O'Neill, Bill Lee – WIP DEA; Kamil Vahidy – TELUS; Frank Ertl – Bell; Pauline Chay – GSMA; George Ranallo -TNS; Greg Meyers- Aepona)...
Eric is the CTO and co-founder of Forecast. He is a lifelong hacker, licensed mathematician, and lean startup fanboy. Warning: only ask him about lean startups if you have a couple of hours to spare. You can follow him on twitter @geometrid and on facebook.
Tell us a little about forecast:
Forecast is the best way to meetup with your friends! Checkout all the cool places your friends are going, or create your own forecast to share where you’ll be later today. Queue up multiple forecasts and then check-in with one touch when you arrive. Whether you’re going out for coffee or a wild night on the town Forecast helps you meetup with your real friends out in the real world. It’s social networking that’s actually social.
Where did the idea come from?
A check-in tells your friends where you are now. A forecast tells friends where you will be later. This simple change from present tense to future tense changes everything. It's the difference between a serendipitous...
When Caroline came to London a month ago we were saved from drowning (yes it rains heavily ever now and then in London) by a fantastic taxi application called Hailo Cab.
If you haven't heard of them the following blog post will tell you more about this dream story of 3 taxi drivers who dreamed up an app!
Here at WIP, we partner with many mobile conferences taking place all over the world. As a result, we are able to secure discounted registration for the WIP Community for most and sometimes even a FREE pass or two. The next few weeks are jam-packed with events before the usual summer slow down. Check out the events below and many more on our Mobile Community Calendar:
AnDevCon, May 15 – 17, San Francisco, USA. Still time to register for this technical conference geared towards software developers building or selling Android apps. Exhibit Hall is Free to attend. Conference discount for WIP Community.
APPNATION, May 15 & 16, New York, USA. This is where the app and connected device ecosystems meet, combined with social TV apps. It is the first conference to focus entirely on the business of apps and their transformative impact on consumers and enterprise technology, devices, commerce, media and social interaction. Discount for WIP Community.
In-app purchases are blowing up, and now account for more than 70% of the revenues in the iTunes App Store, and account for a huge and growing chunk of revenues on other platforms as well. Business models with in-app purchasing (such as freemium, virtual goods and more) work a bit differently than paid downloads, and require you to design your app differently to get the best conversion rate and accrue the most revenues. There's a premium on lifecycle planning and management so you can keep your revenue streams alive and continually offer new value to your users in exchange for continued purchases.
Our friends at App-Promo recently did a survey gauging how mobile developers found success with their applications in the last year. Some interesting data was found, as you can see from the infographic below:
The results of the survey definitely re-emphasize something that we've been preaching for a while - that it is important to start thinking about marketing from day 1 and as much as possible, your development and marketing cycles should sync. When 68% of developers in the survey have earned less than $5000 (guess they weren't developing for the BlackBerry), it should be eyeopening for all those about to release an app.
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