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Re: The Double Opt-In Introduction

misteroo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:14:08 -0000

i am /was exposed a lot to those situations: i learned to make a distinction where i know in advance when double optin is necessary and when it is not. The guy who makes the intro - if he s a good match maker should know enough both parties to assume they will both want to meet (eg: a startup looking to hire someone / and a killer candidate for the job).

If you re not sure enough, you should ask for permission. This is a matter of judgement.

The reason people don t ask for permission, is that it is painful to ask for it. requires multiple emails and explanations before the intro email happens. So many drop it.

I have learned that i could skeep a meeting i don t want to take by simply engaging by email and asking a brief pitch of the reason to the other party. many times this is enough to suggest a meeting is not that necessary

Re: New tools use social data to find iPhone apps

misteroo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:34 -0000

Cody, you are missing some of the most interesting tools out there.

we created http://appsfire.com (in june this year) the very first service that allow users to find apps via their friends or peers. The service is being used by top users and tech writers (http://appsfire.com/vips), we d be happy to add you there.

Re: Is George Lucas banking on Verizon’s Droid?

misteroo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:10:20 -0000

well spotted

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

misteroo — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:17:10 -0000

i guess the question should be: which smart phone has the best platform for a specific type of usage. Because for productivity and business i think Blackberry is and will remain a winner. For entertainment and fun iPhone also. Android could be kind of hybrid.

But to date by far iPhone remains the best for developers because they are the only one that provide a seamless billing system with a painless way to suck in revenues for developers. Blackberry has one advantage: they can price apps higher for the same usage (easy to compare). But the billing is more painful.

Re: Thinking about App Stores

misteroo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:04 -0000

Bijan

app stores are meant to be discovered via your social graph. this is why we built Appsfire.com, an unfunded project, already gathering high profile users like Robert Scoble, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Brad Feld, Chris Dixon and many more (check their apps here http://appsfire.com/vips )

So much more is coming, that a comment is not enough to dlsclose it. But stay tuned

Re: WOW: iPhone Reaches 100,000 Approved Apps

misteroo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:27:54 -0000

What you need to remember is that out of 100k apps only 20k are really actively installed and that the long tail is very very very very long (the top 1000th app is installed by less than 2% of users)

http://blog.appsfire.com/good-news-the-app-stor...

Re: Just Try It Out

misteroo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:11:34 -0000

Funny, i started to use dailybooth yesterday for exactly the same reason as you after i saw the round announcement. i think it is very well done (except the outbound invitation system, i find really not well done) but i am not sure yet this is for me

Re: Waveboard: Google Wave Client for Mac and iPhone is Coming

misteroo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:15:04 -0000

You can see our experience with WaveBoard (we are proud to have discovered before Mashable :) ) here http://blog.appsfire.com/waveboard-an-iphone-ap...

Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

misteroo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:55:05 -0000

Fred, you re pointing to one of the main issues of the mobile web: standards. I think this was and still is one of the issue in that industry. Things are starting to get better but as you said there are too many platforms for developers and enough good standards in the mobile ads space, specially for promoting and merchandising apps. The App store(s) so far have done a poor job in that direction except for top sellers. Hopefully this will change over time

Re: jonathan. tumbling.

misteroo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:25:24 -0000

Hi John

would love to interview you for Appsfire.com blog
We do this from time to time with top apps creators (specially the one we love).

Shoot me an email when you have time ouriel@appsfire.com

ps: btw good news: in our research boxcar is a top 10 twitter app in terms of installed apps

Ouriel Ohayon

Re: 5 More Must Have Photography iPhone Applications

misteroo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:04:04 -0000

Hi, we created a nice iPhone widget with the apps mentioned above which you can embed if you want

http://bit.ly/TopPhotosApps

Note that each time you buy an app via this widget we donate 100% of our affiliate commission to charity: water

Ouriel Ohayon
AppsFire.com

Re: Open Subtitles

misteroo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:23:14 -0000

Fred you probably want to check http://dotsub.com/

Re: Digital iPhone cheapskates

misteroo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:05:48 -0000

Robert, you probably want to make a difference between apps that are Twitter clients and Apps that use Twitter as a way to broadcast a message as part of an experience, just like email (for example sharing a song you love on Last.fm does not make Last.fm a twitter app)

So there are no 4000+ twitter apps but 4000+apps that mention twitter in their description

Re: LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite iPhone App?

misteroo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:11:40 -0000

We put below a link to the Mashable's selection in a nice clickable widget that can be embedded on your blog (and generate donation to charity: water)

http://appsfire.com/selection.php?cid=125515871...

Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without

misteroo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:06:15 -0000

that s why i did not move to snow leopard. actually anything related to mac,
i prefer to wait for version 1.2 because most of the times it is shipped
with weird bugs like those

Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without

misteroo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:02:51 -0000

yes, Safari was getting slow for some kind of reason. i have not been using
it for the past month and a hald and only using chromium. It is SO fast,
that i don't care about the bells and whistles of other browsers

Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without

misteroo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:04:55 -0000

i have skitch for screencapture, chromium that killed safari, adium for chat, vlc for video

for my contacts and calendar i just use Google.com/sync that does everything everywhere real time including on the iphone :)

Re: Introducing Tweerank, The Definitive Engagement Score for Twitter

misteroo — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:48:02 -0000

wow i more influential than @ev and @biz? i am not sure that makes really sense but if you say so :)

Re: 3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

misteroo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:26:11 -0000

Mark, just a funny coincidence about your FNAC - feature not company. FNAC is an empire in France, an huge offline Amazon (with online operation on FNAC.fr). I guess they are in a company, not a feature :)

Re: Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing)

misteroo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:18:49 -0000

Although i agree there is an overlap i have 2 issues with killing RSS readers for Twitter. not all the blogs i read have a twitter account and if they do i am not aware of it (idea for a new service?). You need to be in Sync with twitter to keep track of news. Asynchronous reading is not convenient on twitter...and probably too cluttered.

I would say that RSS readers as we know them are going to die but there is a definite need for a simple reader enabling asynchronous reading

Re: iPhone app shootout Thursday

misteroo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:06:19 -0000

well Robert, i would kill to be at this event. It is all about what i am currently passionate about. I am sure i would discover great apps that way (This is something similar to what i organized here in Israel a few weeks ago called "iPhone and Pizzas" for the same purpose).

So, since i won't be there here are my apps http://myap.ps/ouriel

btw i love the Best Cam app too. We had a great selection of apps for photos and it comes first (here is a selection you might like http://blog.appsfire.com/appmix-the-best-camera... )

Re: Spreadsheet of branded iPhone apps begs to be crowdsourced

misteroo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:22:26 -0000

Pretty impressive work by Johnny. Here is a first "wrapper" : all the apps included in a virtual clickable iPhone widget (which can be embedded). http://bit.ly/topbrandediPhoneapps

btw they totalize a little above $66

Re: Thanks…

misteroo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:22:06 -0000

OM is a great guy. And a good friend too. always great to read those stories from people i don t know (yet)

Re: Remembering

misteroo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:11:15 -0000

There was a time people were blogging for reminding this day. Then Twitter came. And now Someone created an iphone app for 9/11 http://blog.appsfire.com/the-911-app-go-get-it-...

Re: Getting a job in venture capital

misteroo — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:48:03 -0000

No It was not an incubator. We funded companies at series A and for
some I seat on boards.