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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So did the media.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI? Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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What's the idea behind Sometrics? To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Primarily because you can launch applications where you focus on a acquiring a user base with a compelling product while not having to worry about how to build your services into a map view or having to build in services that find local businesses, etc.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

What's the idea behind Sometrics? To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting?

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

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What are your thoughts on what we can expect to see in the mobile application space at SXSW? The app space has been around long enough that we’re now starting to see less new ideas and more refinement and re-imaginings on old concepts. Take applications like Realmac’s Clear for the iPhone. Refinement.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. Google would soon follow with their own phones, it was rumored. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. Let’s start with Google’s Android.

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