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Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App

Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App

In this 11-minute interview we ask Kevin Rose, founder of digg and WeFollow five questions about web entrepreneurship. In case you don’t have time to watch the interview, we’ve summarized Kevin’s answers below. Feel free to share your answers to these questions in the comments below. We’d love to hear your perspective. What advice can you give [...]

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Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

There’s a worryingly high web app mortality rate right now. I think the primary cause is the lack of marketing knowledge and how to apply it to web apps. I spoke at FOWA Tour Leeds on this subject so I’m going to summarize the major points below for you. You can also watch the complete video [...]

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Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

Sunday, May 17, 2009

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Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

I think we have a serious problem in our industry. I believe it generally started when Basecamp became quite successful and 37signals started to talk about their theories on the subject. Their basic mantra was “Don’t quit your day job to build a web app. Build it in your free time and use your day job [...]

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Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Let’s face it, developing web applications is, in some ways, getting more and more complex as time goes on. Sure, there are frameworks like Django, Rails or Seam to help you get sites built in record time with minimal resources, but at the same time applications are becoming more complex and more demanding. Being able [...]

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Designing a web app with character

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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In this presentation, Denise Wilton, designer at Moo.com talks about how to build web apps that not only work well, but have their own special character and personality. As well as sharing tips from her design experience, Denise discusses the important role that copy plays in building a credible, likeable web app too. This session is [...]

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Building a web app the Microsoft way

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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As an agency that helps clients in the web start-up market to design and build web apps, Howard Baines is familiar with the popular approach of using open source technologies and tools to get the job done economically. We’ve worked with PHP, Rails, MySQL and others, and have experienced the highs and lows of doing [...]

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How to Price your Web App

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

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Pricing is always somewhat of a black art, and a subject about which there is precious little written with regard to web applications. It’s something I’ve always been fascinated by. The question of how to price our web application, Litmus, was subject to countless hours of discussion. Here I’ll discuss some common factors and hopefully [...]

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Moo.com: Being an International Business

Monday, August 13, 2007

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Richard Moross and Stefan Magdalinski are the creators of moo.com, the web app that uses Flickr to help you print cool stuff. This interview was recorded at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, February 2007. Moo has of course recently launched its fantastic stickers - hinted at here. Richard and Stef also discuss [...]

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Last.fm

Thursday, April 12, 2007

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This interview was recorded at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, February 2007. Watch the video! Last.fm developers Matt Ogle and Anil Bawa Cavia talk to journalist Bobbie Johnson for Vitamin Vitamin: Can you tell us a little bit about some of the problems that Last.fm has faced? What can people learn from them? MO: Early [...]

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Create an Irresistible Free Trial for Your App

Monday, April 2, 2007

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You know the feeling. You’re visiting an interesting website that has a service you think might be useful, but there is no way to try it out properly without parting with your hard-earned cash. And often, even if they do have a trial option, it’s set up so poorly and requires you to give up [...]

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