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February 8, 2010

How do you say PasteFire in Norwegian?

Well..PasteFire i guess. this is the only word i could understand from this demo (which you can understand anyway)

Thanks to iTelefonen.no

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February 8, 2010

New PasteFire: launch iPhone Google map from your computer

Sometimes, you just want to send an adress to your iPhone Google map 

This is the simplest way to do it in 1 click. Write "map: address". Press Send. Open PasteFire (or the push notification). That's all

ps: works also fine with any Google map links. Just copy it with PasteFire
ps2: we insist, no jailbreak is necessary (since we got the question)

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February 7, 2010

AppMix: the best 10 iPhone apps for the Super Bowl by @alleyinsider

The title says it all. Below the selection created by The Business insider (here if you re reading from RSS)

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February 7, 2010

AppMix: Discover the best apps to discover music

Apple just released a selection of 10 apps for discovering music. But 2 important one are missing: TuneWiki and Deezer. We've added them in the selection below (here if you're reading from RSS). Of course this selection is also part of our Mixes on AppsFire new site

 

 

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February 3, 2010

★ AppsFire is heating up with a first round of funding!

Today we are thrilled to announce that we just closed our first round of financing with some of the best and most successful web entrepreneurs in Europe. 

Namely we are proud to receive support from Marc Simoncini (meetic CEO), Xavier Niel (Iliad/Free CEO), Jacques-Antoine Granjon (Vente-Privee CEO), Jean-David Blanc (founded Allocine.com sold to Vivendi - the Europe IMDB and recently invested in Square). A-level investors.


AppsFire is a French company with split operations between France and Israel but our reach is worldwide. Our investors built very successful businesses from France with international reach. This should be inspiring to us.

When we first started AppsFire, we had no idea that this simple idea would become a full-time operation with proper funding. Everything we did so far was done with very little time and resources. Starting today, things are going to change and this is rather a good news for us but mainly for you our readers and users.

Since we launched AppsFire, we generated more than 10 million app recommendations and download intents. Those recommendations converted into hundreds of thousands of clicks and the pace is accelerating lately at a very significant speed. We also launched an app built in 10 days that reach the App store top rankings for which a new version is coming very soon.

We are aware that AppsFire was a great experiment so far, meaning it was far from perfect. We are now equipped with the means to bring you the most innovative platform for mobile apps discovery; we are hiring today to that effect! 

What it means specifically is that nearly everything that you are seeing today is going to change. A new iPhone app will come soon, new discovery mechanisms, breakthrough features and tools, extending Appsfire to new OSes and not just the iPhone/iPad. Oh and did you notice our refreshed website?  (thanks to Nicolas Dengler for the graphical design)

We firmly believe that mobile apps is one of  the next new big things (do we need to convince you?) and that they (whether desktop or web based) will be the format of choice for consuming the internet and content on the go. We also believe that the app discovery issue, a critical one, has not yet been cracked. As users, we remain frustrated despite the large range of attempted solutions out there, and despite Apple's efforts that are clearly going in the right direction. We are frustrated even with our own solution!  

So in short, the challenge is exciting. In the meantime we want to thank you all, our users, for your support and love. We would not have been where were are today without you.

Keep watching this space for upcoming updates. And keep spreading the love for us! Thanks. Ouriel & Yann.


update: TechCrunch has a post on the funding

 

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February 3, 2010

[updated: we're back!] PasteFire bug and fix coming with new version

update 06/02/2010: and we're back. Download Pastefire on getAp.ps/Pastefire Now enjoy the power of push notifications on Pastefire!
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We pushed a week ago a new version of Pastefire iPhone app with a new push notification system. This is the good news
The bad news is that we discovered a bug although the app was just approved by Apple. This bug causes an error message to appear on your screen when opening Pastefire on your iPhone

Although the copy/paste is working fine we decided to remove this new version from the App Store until the working version is back again. It is important to us to ensure the best experience to our users and we won't let a little bug pollute the experience

We ve just pushed this new version (1.1.1) to Apple for approval including also a few more surprises. Hopefully it should be back very soon.
We don't understand how Apple could let this bug go through since we thought they would test the app to screen those messages. But the mistake is ours. We are fixing it.

Apologies for that. 

Note: if you did not update Pastefire the version 1.0.1 is working still fine. So you can enjoy it!

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February 2, 2010

FireCast: interview with SketchNation, App Star Awards Winner

Sketchnation by Ouriel Ohayon  
(download)

We wanted to publish this interview before but since StetchNation (twitter @Sketchnation / blog here)   is not yet published in the App Store we decided to wait a little


Sketch Nation drew a lot of attention at our app competition, App star Awards last december, because it allows to create a sophisticated game very simply: but just drawing it. We we intrigued by the concept and reached out to Nitzan Wilnai (pic below), down in Silicon Valley to discuss his project. FYI the video demo above has been seen already close to 30,000 times. Not bad for an app unreleased!

Find out more in this 08 min interview

PS: Discover the other winner interview, herefilefile 

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February 1, 2010

If you needed a proof that the APP-roval process is faster- there it is

The image below is the status bar of the global review process made by Apple when you log into iTunes connect (the developer zone for apps). Just as an element of comparison 

  • Before december it was 89/90% in the last 14 days 
  • Just before the christmas break it was at 99% in the last 14 days
  • and now what you are seeing below 99% in the past 7 days. 

This is a great news and a major improvement

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February 1, 2010

Fascinating visual projections of the iPhone apps market data

Truly fascinating: both the data and its visual representation by Trefis. via theNextWeb [if you read via RSS, we recommend you jump to the our blog] 

 

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February 1, 2010

iPhone app discovery: how it is approached today, online. Full map and observations

We like to map the complex iPhone ecosystem (we did it for analytics and app creation), because it is important for us to understand where we move. One of the key issues of the iPhone world is app discovery: finding the right apps for you.

 

It is an issue for both developers and users. 

iTunes is doing a decent job at organizing the app catalog but, let's face it, the browsing experience, the absence of internal marketing channel to the App Store and the explosion of the number of apps (will reach 300/500k by year end) is making the discovery and relevancy of the process painful. 

This is then, no surprise that lots of services and companies are trying to solve that issue. We wanted to map those players and although Appsfire has not really started implementing what we are planning (this is called a teaser - more on that later), we also find ourselves in that map. 

There it is (click to zoom). Note we put aside the App store/Google and the blogosphere/TwitterSphere that plays an important part too. We focused here only on services that specifically aim at solving the discovery of mobile apps for the iPhone

What we can learn from this map is that the attention of iPhone users is split between many sorts of discovery opportunities from the most traditional (app catalogs like AppStore HQ) to the most complex (Flurry is an example), from personal initiatives (like appstore-appstot.com) to funded startups (a bunch in our map). And none has really taken the lead to mainstream although some have reached a decent size already (like AppstoreHQ)

App discovery is far from being solved. All those players, Apple included and soon many more players like Google/Android, Mobile operators, probably some publishers, will try to bring their own solution. This is a very hard problem to solve correctly. We tried ourselves with a few discovery mechanisms from which we learned a lot and gave us the vision for our next steps.

One more thing to mention is that the discovery of Apps for many users does not take place online. It takes place offline, while discussing and comparing apps with friends. Apps are the new playlists and the new mobile glue. People like to talk about them in real life. If you have an iPhone you know what we mean. And this part cannot be underestimated
This is definitely a hot space and one that requires monitoring.

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