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The Keyapt blog is up and running
Now Keyapt is up and running it needs its own identity. Follow the growth of Keyapt at blog.keyapt.com. This will be primarily for non-technical issues and should be of interest to those who are interested in app marketing and development. This blog will continue to discuss project management, business models, infrastructure etc.
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Keyapt SMS has been launched
After almost a year of hard work on and off by Chris and I we have launched Keyapt SMS and it is available in the Android Market. I launched it at Appsjunction last night and it was well received. The challenge now is to create a revenue model that will work for users and ourselves.…
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FlurryAgent.setUserID error
Flurry is an excellent tool for understanding how users are using your mobile application. Although they only have a few methods they have still managed to get an error in the documentation. FlurryAgent.setUserID(String) Should read FlurryAgent.setUserId(String) (keywords: Flurry bug, fail, error, documentation, token, compile, class name, method name)
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Amazon Web Services support SMS notifications
This addition to the notification service is good. Your first 100 SMS messages per month are free. The notification service is good for implementing work flows and this SMS functionality if good for alerts. http://aws.amazon.com/sns/
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Nokia Windows phones
My attention has been somewhat distracted from technology by the Euro crisis and questions such as “are the Euro nations an optimal currency area“. I always thought the Euro was a bad idea and I was right; perhaps I should have bet against it but I did not, firstly because I don’t know how (and…
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A good review of Android ice cream sandwich
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-everything-you-need-to-know-954464 So far I don’t see anything that affects the utility of our application Keyapt. I am looking forward to learning more about api changes, particularly as they concern SMS.
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Jobian schadenfreude
It has been said of college reunions: “Every time I meet a more successful school friend something inside me dies”. Having been in IT for 20 years the reviews of Steve Jobs’ achievements make me feel like being at one of those college reunions. So in the spirit of schadenfreude, Steve Jobs arrives in heaven,…
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How to start-up a tech company
I was at Droidcon last week and was asked by some graduates about how to start-up a tech company. Here for what it is worth was my advice: In my humble opinion key success factors include Creating a subscription product so you only have to sell it once and earn forever Identifying your distribution partners…
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R53 Fox is great for managing Amazon Route53
Amazon Route 53 is a great way to manage the DNS entries of your cloud services. A key feature is its ability to map your domain apex such as “keyapt.com” to an elastic load balancer instance. To actually create the mapping you use the Elastic Load Balancer CLI (command line interface). The command elb-associate-route53-hosted-zone and…
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Keyapt – how to get an AJAX application in the Google index.
Our Android application Keyapt SMS is coming along nicely. Chris is tweaking the session management and I am doing the marketing plan. Keyapt SMS has three parts: the Android Application, the Web Client and the Keyapt Server in the middle that connects the PC to the mobile. The Web Client is a rich interface application…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 