Tag: keyapt
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Keyapt SMS: Type on your PC, send from your phone
Chris and I have just released the second version of Keyapt SMS for Android phones. It lets you see your contacts and send and receive SMS in your web browser. The SMS are actually sent from your phone. This version is much faster and very slick. You don’t even have to touch your phone. We…
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Amazon Web Services provides a facility to sell unused capacity
One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity to other users. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the…
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Leaner Ries’ Pieces and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Last night I went to TechHub to see Eric Ries coach 4 start-ups in lean start-up thinking. Eric (32) is a brilliant and inspirational speaker. He had his own successful start-up and then spent a lot of time thinking about why it was successful and following a scientific process of hypothesis – experiment – measurement…
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Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
Last night I attend the London Business Starters meetup Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors. There were two presentations. Michael Waschnig talked about the start-up life cycle. He used the model presented in the Startup Genome Report (register and download): Discovery Validation Efficiency Scale Profit maximization Renewal With particular emphasis on the…
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EC2 reserved instances for baseload
Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
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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 