Showing posts with label application. Show all posts
Showing posts with label application. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Native or Web site? Bizness application adds HTML5 platform for small and medium-sized businesses create their own applications — to both

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Bizness Apps launch, which gives small businesses the means to quickly and easily create a mobile application that launched in October 2010, and is growing like gangbusters, reaching more than 1000 applications that 10 languages and more than 20 countries in less than 9 months. She also recently teamed with WuFoo to give small and medium-sized businesses the ability to create and seamlessly add contact forms, online surveys and invitations for their applications. Startup also has interesting founding story that provides useful lessons for your business. Check out our April coverage here.

Bizness Apps value proposition is simple: run wants to make mobile applications available, customizable and easy-to-small business owner. Thus starting offers DIY iPhone, iPad and Android application platform that enables SMB to create, edit, and manage mobile applications without any programming experience required. You start with a template, customize them to meet your business and then Bizness Apps makes them native apps and distributes them on iTunes and the Android market.

Run is not without competitors in this space as iSites, SwebApps and mobile Roadie are targeting similar endpoint. But real Apps Bizness advantage that this product is easy to use, well designed, yet remains accessible. Price for use iOS or Android platform-$ 39, while those who want to create Android applications and iOS are paying $ 59. This accessibility is very appealing for small business, wants to take advantage of the mobile business without having to fork over thousands of dollars to do so.

Native apps are great and all, you could say, but what about this should HTML5 revolution? Where is my Web applications? Accelerated, the fact that heated debate whether the app developers should go to HTML5 or native apps (as evidenced by mg on the post titled back in February), the Bizness Apps founder and Executive Director Andrew Gazdecki said that he thinks that the best approach is to place a bet on mobile as a whole — not one or the other.

That is why the launch today announces the launch of HTML5 version of the platform for their DIY mobile applications for small businesses. With this new Web feature service, users now have the ability to create almost identical mobile experience for every mobile platform, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and so on — they can go native HTML5, or both. For an additional $ 10 per month.

Within the framework of the launch platform for HTML5 Bizness Apps built QR code enabled mobile marketing template to provide a simple and affordable way to market their mobile applications for clients small and medium-sized businesses. Image template, as shown above, is automatically generated (with the possibility of printing) with one click from within the platform for HTML5.

The idea here, said Gazdecki, is to help direct business customers for the relevant applications based on what type of mobile device they are using. For example, if a user has an Android phone, they scan the Android themed QR code assigned to business Android app.

Another important piece of the puzzle in the establishment of a development tool agnostic application platform for small and medium business is the existence in the mother and HTML5 and accessibility and the new possibilities of mobile marketing, Bizness Apps became an interesting platform and is well-positioned to weather the native vs. web apps debate.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Flurry: mobile dating application capture more flirting time than Internet sites

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Mobile applications analytics firm flurry released today a report which examines the use of mobile dating applications against online dating sites. Flurry data used Compete, comScore and Alexa to measure the consumption of Internet dating sites and use their own analytics data (now tracks more than 90 000 mobile applications) mobile tracking. With regard to the dating, flurry tracks a wide range of dating applications with more than 2 million total users.

A flurry of reports that mobile dating apps team more time compared to online dating sites. An average of 8.4 minutes spent in mobile dating application is 8.3 minutes online. A year ago, people spent twice as much time online dating is now in mobile applications. Mobile dating app use increased from 3.7 minutes in June 2010 to 8.4 minutes in June 2011. This is another proof that supports a barrage in a recent report on mobile applications use the dominant Web browser.

In terms of participation a flurry said that the number of consumers, mobile dating applications helps to increase the time in the day in mobile dating applications. Last year the average user has opened a dating app 2 times a day, a little less than 2 minutes each time. Now consumers open dating app more than 5 times a day, but for shorter periods of time, approximately 1.5 minutes each.

In terms of unique users visiting sites v. s mobile applications flurry believes that more people use dating apps on smartphones running than visiting the online dating sites on the Internet, proportionally. A flurry of measure is by looking at the number of unique users dating services compared to the total amount for the platform. For Internet a flurry of comparing unique visitors online dating sites and the total number of people using the Internet, which amounted to 12% in June 2010 and 13% in June 2011. For mobile applications a flurry of comparing unique users of mobile dating applications and any applications that resulted15 per cent in June 2010, and 17% in June 2011.

And the report shows that the number of people using dating applications is growing faster than the number, using all of the applications. In General, 125% for the year, while the number of unique users with mobile dating applications increased by 150% over the same period has increased the number of unique users of all applications.

For the background of a flurry of apps and find top dating sites Match.com, eHarmony, PlentyOfFish, Zoosk, Jazzed up online dating, Skout and Grindr.

Taking into account these data it seems that there is a huge market opportunity in mobile dating and include local and location-based functionality. And this trend that startups, such as LikeALittle has caught on.


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