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[Review] Gamification By Design: Implementing Game Mechanics In Web And Mobile Apps

YoungUpstarts

Which essentially means that if you’re looking to build a community, or encourage virality of a message through your intended audiences, you’ll need to apply different strategies to attract and retain them.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. We have quite an open platform, that allows any registered developer to take advantage of our APIs, tools, services, etc.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

When you look at the developing world this is the majority of users (due to lack of landline infrastructure) and it portends future opportunities in payments, entertainment, application development and services. This doesn’t seem like the end of VC to me, it feels more like the 2 nd inning. Everybody is now payment ready.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

You can see the different applications I have developed in the Creations page. Why you might need some help Too often I see businesses throwing money on custom Facebook applications development or Facebook pages thinking that just because it is on Facebook, it will go ‘viral’.