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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?

ffcode — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:26:02 -0000

yeah more like Google adsense (another thing that i was thinking of while travelling today), site owner don't have to go through talks with advertisers

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

lawrence — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:39:54 -0000

They are early and likely getting bombed with traffic so they may have turned some stuff off, but some obvious things that aren't there yet or not working: 1) sharing on other services / Twitter / FB integration is either broken or not built yet; 2) finding friends is not there yet; 3) no obvious way to toggle between everyone / my friends view; 4) outbound invitations is either poorly integrated or not there yet. Despite these product gaps, my guess is that they are seeing some astonishing engagement numbers to attract such blue chip investors so early.

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

pstergion — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:57:44 -0000

Troll!

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

ShanaC — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:05:59 -0000

The standards issues is actually a really big issue that no one is ready to really full tough on. It extends down to the hardware. Name some really ergonomically correct hardware for next generation phones. I'm trying to write up what this all should look like. Then try implementing all this stuff on the "correct" looking phone.

It's complicated because we want our phones to do so much. We're actually hitting our strides right now, but the Google v Att&T case might hold us back...yuck.

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: Open Subtitles

mlsmolens — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:01:18 -0000

Ouriel

Thanks for the kind words. The open subtitle world is certainly full of unanswered copyright and questions of how best to create the subtitles and time coded captions. We think that at dotSUB, we have created an easy to browser based functionality to allow anyone, anywhere, of course with permission of the rights holder, to create time coded captions and subtitles, and have that video rendered anywhere on the web with those multiple languages.

Would be glad to speak with you further about it.

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: More Than 100 iPhone Apps For Green Shopping, Eating, Travel and Fun

misteroo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:32:54 -0000

Lovely selection, we created with AppsFire.com a live iphone widget with the apps mentioned above

http://bit.ly/TreeHuggerTop100Greenapps

Note that when you buy an app via this widget we donate 100% of our affiliation commission to charity: water :)

Re: Open Subtitles

fredwilson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:37:14 -0000

I will do that Ouriel. Thanks for the suggestion

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

loiclemeur — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:07:52 -0000

new install seems to work perfect

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

loiclemeur — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:04:41 -0000

good to know. well my entire mac sucked entirely since I moved to snow
leopard, I am hoping my clean install will fix it. so far so good.
otherwise it will be windows7 and I will have to read someone's post
about essential apps there!

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