The upcoming October 6-7 the Mopapp team (well, a subset of it maybe :) will be in London to attend DroidCon UK, one of the largest Android Developer events, with 4 tracks worth of speakers, keynotes from HTC & BlackBerry plus another full day dedicated to just barcamps and democamps there is something for everybody.
We're very (very!) proud to announce the following special partnership with Microsoft BizSpark: if you're a member of the BizSpark program you can get 6 free months of the Pro plan (starting once we'll terminate the free beta, of course ;)
If you're into mobile development (and you are :), you'll surely know what Appcelerator Titanium is. To put it simple, it's a framework that allows you to build cross-platform (iOS and Android) mobile apps, using javascript as the programming languages and a number of classes that wrap platform-specific UI components and capabilities (such as the accelerometer, camera, file system & storage, compass etc.). Read more here, if you develop for more than just a platform it might be worth giving it a look and considering it.
Appcelerator has organized a 3-day conference all about its platform, CodeStrong. It will be held in San Francisco, Sept 18-20. There's also a Hackathon contest, with a first prize of 10,000$!
We love the product and the initiative, and thus we're sponsoring it (you see our logo on the conference's homepage). We'll also attend to the conference, and we'll have a booth there to meet existing users, and show what we do to new ones. IF you happen to be there as well, come say Hi, and get a nice gadget for free ;)
If you need some other reasons (besides our gadget) to attend the event, the following might be a good start! (taken from this page)
1. Gain a competitive advantage.
You need to develop the best mobile apps for your company or your clients. Learn about the best development practices through 25 in-depth tracks and keynotes.
2. Spend two days with other mobile rockstars.
500 Titanium developers … 50 Appcelerator engineers … all in one place.
3. Learn about the mobile cloud.
You hear a lot of talk about the cloud these days. Sort it all out — and learn how you can use it to lead the way in mobile.
4. Schmooze with the experts.
Meet Jeff Haynie, co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator, Nolan Wright, co-founder and CTO, as well as the rest of the guys who wrote the Titanium code.
5. Get real-world solutions to your real-world problems.
Sessions and keynotes from leading-edge companies who are using mobile to change their businesses and transform how they engage with their customers.
6. Make more money.
Using Titanium best practices will help you build better apps faster.
7. Develop with less cost.
Learn how to develop for multiple devices using a single platform … and your JavaScript skills.
8. Increase your marketability.
Developers who keep their skills up-to-date will be the most sought-after employees.
9. Impress your boss and clients.
Go back to the office with a mobile app strategy that will help your company and clients not just survive, but thrive, in this economic climate.
10. Use this as an excuse ...
... to visit one of the greatest cities in the world.
We’re thrilled to announce that Mopapp has entered a partnership with InMobi, the world’s largest independent ad network. InMobi reaches 314 million consumers in 165 country and it’s now serving 43 Billion impressions a month!
Getting more value to our users is our top goal. InMobi is as well another service that may fit you well, and that's why we're proud to announce this partnership with them! Go to InMobi web site to learn more and follow their next steps on twitter (@inmobi)
To be able to get this offer, just follow the link you’ll find in your dashboard banner (see below) and register with InMobi.
Some cool things happened since our last post on the blog, around two month ago. (Looks like it's way easier to post short updates on Twitter rather than writing posts on a blog...at least unless you have a guy with the passion to and time to write ;)
This post lists the most important news:These are just the main "news"...but we've been working (and have deployed) on many more little details and tweaks, that we hope are improving Mopapp a bit day by day.
If you want to follow what happens more closely and in a more timely manner, please follow our Twitter stream @mopappteam ;)
It's with great, great pleasure that we can at last pubicly announce that Mopapp has been selected as one of the 15 start-up finalists for this year's Microsoft BizSpark European Summit! (here the official announcement of the finalists)
We're eager to be in Brussels on June 14th for this event, as it looks like it has everything to be an awesome opportunity to hear the experiences of cool people from cool companies, and to share our own ideas and plans ;) If you happen to be in Belgium in that period, come to meet us in person!
Follows an excerpts from the event's official site.
What
Now into its 7th year, this event has become established as a firm fixture in the ICT entrepreneurial calendar, debating the issues at the heart of what is driving the opportunities for tech entrepreneurs in Europe. As well as roundtables on key topics such as cloud computing, keynotes from government and business leaders.
Taking centre stage at the Microsoft BizSpark European Summit is a European-wide Start-up Showcase. This Showcase brings together 15 of the best tech start-ups from across Europe. These companies will pitch live on stage to a panel of expert judges who will provide immediate expert insight, feedback and guidance. Judges include leading angels, Sherry Coutu and Richard Titus, serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor, Rodrigo Sepulveda Schlultz, and VCs Sami Ahvenniemi, Partner, Conor Venture Partners, Julie Meyer, Founder, Ariadne Capital, Olivier Sichel, Partner, Sofinnova, Ivan Farneti, Principal, Doughty Hanson, Bernard Dallé, Partner, Index Ventures, with Julien Codorniou, Head of Platform Partnerships in France and Benelux, Facebook.
Who
This event will bring together over 200 many of the region’s leading entrepreneur’s, venture capital firms, angel investors, incubators, government representatives and top media including the BBC, CNN and Wall Street Journal Europe….in other words, some of the top players shaping the ICT market for entrepreneurs in Europe today.
Our speakers include:
- Chairman Europe, Microsoft - Jan Muehlfeit
- Corporate Vice President Emerging Business Development, Microsoft - Dan'l Lewin
- Deputy General Director, Daniel Calleja Crespo, DG Enterprise and Industry and European Commission SME Envoy
- Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, Nokia - Heikki Norta
- Director or INSEAD's eLab - Dr Bruno Lanvin
The event will be moderated by Juan Señor. Juan is a Partner at Innovation Media Consulting Group, a former presenter for Wall Street Journal TV and CNBC and is Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.
What
A packed agenda will include:
Start-up Pitches - 12 of the region’s most innovative and promising start-ups will have a chance to pitch to a panel of prestigious judges.
Roundtables keynotes – covering both business and technology, from the economic challenges that entrepreneurs face through to how they can leverage cloud technology to accelerate their businesses.
Funding and grants – as well as some of the region’s leading investors, there will also be advice on how start-ups can more easily access and secure public funding.
Latest news from BizSpark – including all the latest developments and how we are working with both start-ups and our BizSpark Network Partners throughout Europe.
One of the most common questions we've been getting from our users is something like this: "ok, Mopapp is cool and its charts look awesome...but I want more! I'm a suber uber export of Excel (or Numbers, or what it is...), so can I just export the data your import from the various stores, including your currency transformations and profit calculations???"
Starting from now, the answer is YES. You just need to use the brand new List API call - do a single GET HTTP call, and you'll get your data in JSON or XML format. You can refer to this article to read the documentation.
The title says it all :) Mopapp is now able to import downloads/sales from Amazon Android Appstore (both automatially and through manual upload of its csv files), and some users are already tracking their apps there!
To tell the truth we still need to add the automatic import of reviews published on the Amazon Appstore, but that should be pretty easy and will be available soon.
In the meantime, we just added the automatic import of reviews in the WP7 Marketplace, so that store is now fully integrated into Mopapp (downloads/sales + reviews). Enjoy!
It looks like Amazon Appstore is the cool new Android store these days, with its innovative Test Drive simulator for trying out the apps from the browser before purchasing and/or downloading them, and with its innovative revenue scheme and its special offers (discounts, the daily-free-app etc.). (you can read more about the store's feature on this TechCrunch post)
The store is already getting traction, with thousands of apps already published, and many blogs and mobile-releated magazines talking about it.
That's why we at Mopapp want to integrate Amazon AppStore's sales/downloads data into our reports, like we do with all other major stores (iTunes, Android Market, WP7 Marketplace, App World, GetJar, Handango, ...)
We're already investigating it, and are waiting that one of our Android app (Postino) gets approved so that we can study all the details about their data format for the import/integration. However, if you already have apps (free and/or paid) published there, and would like to help us by beta testing our integration, please get in touch now at support@mopapp.com!
If you have WP7 apps published through Microsoft's AppHub on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, you can now track your sales/downloads with Mopapp's unique dashboard and reports. Since AppHub's reports are quite poor right now, Mopapp will be very useful even if you develop and publish only for the WP7 platform.
If instead you have apps on multiple platforms (iPhone, Android etc.) then it will be precious because with a single, clear user interface you'll be able to monitor how your apps are doing on the various platforms and stores (without manually switching and logging to the single stores' control panels, export the data if possible, transform it to a common format, and analyze it in some manual way...).
Try Mopapp now, it's free!
