Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Launching Swap.com’s Mobile App

Today we launched our Mobile App at Swap.com and it is available for the iPhone on Apple’s iTunes App Store.  We are psyched about this milestone.  I have been using pre-release versions of the app for weeks now and I think it is very cool.
I have talked to many other Internet execs at RueLaLa, Kayak, [...]

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Taking Control Of Files In The i-Era

I have posted many times on this blog that I have become a big fan of the Apple suite of products.  My route to this Apple support though is not typical.
I adopted iTunes early and have consolidated our media library there.  We loved the iPods and still have one of the original white iPods working.  When [...]

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Amazing Stats From Apple

Yesterday Steve Jobs talked about the “i-universe” that includes the new iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes and now iAds.  Apple is on a roll.  These stats are amazing.
—On Saturday, 300,000 iPads were sold. As of yesterday, 450,000 were sold.
—4 billion apps have been downloaded from the App store, and there’s 185,000 apps in the store. There’s [...]

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Top iPad Launch News From Blogosphere @ Geek.com

Yesterday was iPad Launch Day…not an official holiday…but I am not sure that there has ever been as much enthusiasm about a new consumer technology product.  The iPhone launch was big but this was “inside baseball” mostly for the legions of Apple-devoutees.  I remember going to wait in line…late…at the local AT&T store on that [...]

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Wall Street Journal Confirms Apple Acquisition of LaLa

Wall Street Journal confirmed the acquisition of LaLa by Apple a few hours ago.

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Apple Tunes Up With LaLa?

Reports are out that Apple is near or has agreed to the acquisition streaming music company LaLa.  This is a very interesting development in the game of positioning for the next wave of growth for digital music.
LaLa is a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, California.  Lala, unlike Apple’s iTunes, lets users play the [...]

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Pandora Internet Radio Is Cool

I have tried all sorts of Internet radios over the last several years.  Never had one grab me or monopolize my interest.
At the suggestion of a “tweet” on Twitter that said:  “With Pandora why does anyone download music to their iPhone…”  I got to thinking that maybe this is for me.
Internet radio is surely not [...]

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

iPhone + Kindle: Uniting Two Stars Today

Amazon has launched the Kindle application on the iPhone (and iTouch) today.  I know this for sure as I already downloaded it first thing this morning.  What a great way to start the day!
All 240,000-plus titles are available on the smaller devices which is nice.  What I think is really great though is that Amazon [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Nike + Update

Back in November 2008 I posted about Nike+ as a positive example of a brand to utilize social media very effectively to create a community, add value with content and tools, extend it’s brand positively and sell some product.  I wanted to share with you this video on YouTube that promotes Nike+ and also a new post [...]

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Apple Is Gaming To Beat Sony and Nintendo

Opening the iPhone and the iPod touch to third-party developers has resulted in a glut of games for the devices available through the iTunes App Store. Might Apple’s handhelds rival those from Nintendo and Sony in the field of handheld gaming devices? Key differences between the platforms exist, though it’s clear that the iPhone and [...]