If I were running a restaurant, I’d want to collect some basic statistics on how much my customers enjoyed their experience. In many businesses, if the customer isn’t happy, then the company doesn’t want the customer’s money. This is more true in the Internet Marketing world than anywhere else, because word travels fast on the Internet, and there’s a lot of competition, so sellers need to do something to differentiate themselves. It’s not uncommon to see 100% guarantees (or higher).
Whenever I go somewhere, I’ll blog it here.
At this point, it looks quite likely that I’m going to really work on my startup in earnest. Now, this might seem odd, since my startup has been around, in some sense, since I released my first iPhone app back in August 2008. But I was still a student back then, and my tremendous success to date– well over 5 million downloads via the iTunes App Store– was just me, hacking and tinkering on my own little projects. The fact that I can make a full-time living from these apps might due to luck just as much it’s due to skill.
Today I was interviewed by Zynga, the social gaming company. Some of the details of the interviews are covered by an NDA, so to be safe I’ll just talk about my feelings at a high level. To keep people’s identities under wraps, I’ll refer to them using the first one or two letters of their names (for my own memory’s sake).
I met so many interesting people today that I’m not even sure where to begin.
There are the four panelists, plus a few other folks I met as well.
The iPhone 3GS wasn’t Apple’s first “GS” computer. Back in 1986, Apple released the Apple IIGS, where the GS stood for Graphics and Sound.
It can be done. My first iPhone app, Brain Tuner, took about a week.
8 developers, 2 designers, and 1 team lead created a social networking, event planning app called Wikimeety, in just 7 days. Here’s the marketing blurb they sent me:
Even though my blog has been installed for many years, today I was treated to the “Welcome to WordPress” installation page, asking me to enter a Blog Title and my E-mail address.
There’s a rare physical disorder called Patulous Eustachian tube, and I think I have it.
I sometimes hear my own breathing in right ear– very loudly– along with my voice, when I speak.
Safari was storing an old password for my Gmail account, so it kept pre-filling an incorrect value.
It didn’t let me delete the obsolete entry, though. I tried clicking “Remove”. Nothing happens. “Remove All”. Still nothing.
Internet Explorer is perfectly safe for everyday use. However, as there is no such thing as perfect security, you must take additional precautions to keep evil hackers away from your data. Apply these rules according to the sensitivity of your data, from least important to most: Read the rest of this entry »
