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250k apps? Look outside the USA and you'll find at least 10k more

 

Recently our friends at 148apps published a nice stat that the App Store is 250k Apps strong [bravo Apple!]
So we look into our data and we discovered this number is correct if you look at the USA only. 

But if you look international (which we do because of our location) you'll discover there are at least 10 000 more apps that are not in the US but present in the local app stores (don't forget there are 90 app stores!)
The right split by apps is showing up above

And if you want the detail by Country just go to this public spreadsheet

Many apps are country specific and are only available in local countries (Tv guides, culture related apps...) This mainly explains the difference. And this only stresses how big is the App Store ecosystem globally


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AppsFire ♥ Facebook, Facebook ♥ AppsFire

Yesterday we were happy to announce a new step with Facebook which makes Appsfire even more useful to discover great apps.

Until now you could easily, automatically or manually create your list of favorite apps and share that with your friends. But it was not convenient to instantly discover all your friends' apps at once. So we decided to let you import your facebook friends in Appsfire so you can discover their apps conveniently in a brand new Community section

Discover the magic of Appsfire, Discover the apps of your friends

The magic is that you really don't have to do anything. If you use Facebook connect we take care about bringing them to you. We firmly believe that people only care about the apps of people they know or can relate to. This is why we're not building a new social network.And if you don't see any of your friends yet just invite them, or check our VIP users. Discovering at once all the apps of your closest friends is really magical and fascinating. Try it, you'll see

The Facebook pulse, How the world love apps

We also announce the extension of Apptrends for Facebook. AppTrends is a live App ranking, not based on Downloads but on how people feel about apps. We built it for Twitter but already had in mind the extension to Facebook and soon to new networks. Like on Twitter, and even more so on Facebook we render a qualitative pulse about how people feel about apps at a certain moment in time. We crawl Facebook public feed and we structure that feed in a convenient Ranking. You can filter it iPhone/IPad. And you can roll back in time also.

Unlike twitter where we measure just mentions, we track here comments (mentions), share and "like" activity. It gives you a fascinating picture of apps you will not necessarily find in the App Store ranking and many times anticipate an App landing in the App Store top ranking, very early on. And we do that in real time, constantly scanning hundreds of thousands of expressed emotions in Facebook.

The news was covered by Techcrunch, Mobile Entertainment, Knowyourcell, NextWeb (thanks for their coverage)

Next Week we'll announce a new cool product. One that is going to save you a lot of money. 

Enjoy Appsfire!

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The Dark side of the Apps [in picture]

Thanks to 713Avenue for such a cool creative pictures based on Appstream. Those 2 are probably looking for a Darth Vador app

We love when our users love appsfire.

Appstream for iPad

 

Subtitled by the author

"Appstream is a fun and visual way to discover fast new apps.

Animated wall is cool."

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AppsFire invited in - This Week in iPad [podcast by @lons]

We're really honored to have been invited for an interview in the great podcast "This week in iPad" hosted by Lon Harris

Appstream caught their attention and we talked extensively about this app and why it became so quickly successful

Jump in to min'12 but you can really enjoy the show all the way.

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Thanks to Lon and the team for having us

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Fear Not: Apps for Surviving Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th doesn't have to be so ominous when you've got a few good apps handy. First of all, never get caught by surprise again. The Friday 13th and Doomsday Timer apps help you look ahead to the next bad-luck Friday. Friday the 13th will even help you add it to your calendar.

Experiencing some bad luck today? Don't worry, the grass is probably greener on your side of the fence. Take comfort in others' misfortune with FML and EPIC FAIL.

Looking to fend off the demons? Try a few apps that promise good luck. iCharm and LuckyCharms provide digital renditions of your luckiest charms. If you're a skeptic, try Luck Test to see if your luck has improved.

Resigned to sit under today's black cloud? At least you can try to predict what will go wrong with Misfortune Cookie.
That's all for today. We'll bring you a fresh set of apps on (Friday) May 13, 2011. Until then, godspeed!

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Pastefire ♥ AlfredApp

Sometimes it s about the little details. If you are like us a big fan of AlfredApp, we just found the best way to send content from your computer to your iPhone/iPad

Watch the demo below

Here are the instructions to set this up (you only have to do this once)

0. Open AlfredApp Preferences
1. Go to Custom Search
2. Add a new search by pressing the + at the bottom 

3. Include in  "Search URL"  the Following query with your email and password (the same you use in Pastefire.com)

https://pastefire.com/set.php?email=EMAIL&pwd=PASSWORD&clipboard={query}

4. Pick a display message (useful to recognize the query)
5. Choose a Keyword you'll easily remember to trigger pastefire (iphone, pastefire, pf,...)

6. Save the query.

you're done!

From now you can send anytime content or trigger actions from AlfredApp with your keyword

Above for example i am writing an SMS from AlfredApp (keyword sms: "your text sms")

Cool, isn't it?

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10 Free coupons for ProCamera, a great app to shoot HD photos/videos

 

If you like Camera+ (now unavailable in the App Store), you will love ProCamera which in addition does video


The app is not cheap ($2.99) but we have 10 codes for you to get it Free . 1st arrived, 1st served
We tried the app and we love it!

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To use the voucher, get here

please indicate in comments which voucher you used for other readers 

ps: you need to use it within the week and they work in the US store.

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Downloadsquad-ed: Pastefire Jumps

Thanks to Jay Hataway, From DownloadSquad

Pastefire is an iPhone app I can't believe I wasn't using before this week.

Immediate effect on usage and traffic :) 

And someone had the cool idea to build an autoHotKey for windows users 

We feel we should improve this app a little. We'll do that in a short future. For now we re busy in bringing you a super new cool iphone app :)

Reminder: we do have an opensource desktop client for mac/pc  

ps: if you are a developer and want to create an Google Chrome extension contact us. Should be pretty fast and easy to build. and you'll get all the credit :)

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[job] Appsfire is hiring a full-time ninja web developer (in Paris)

Appsfire grows fast, very fast, very very fast. Looking for the next big challenge? Love apps? You are level 10/10 in Web development ninja practice. We love ninjas!

This job is for you! You want it. bad, bad, bad...(especially when you know what we're going to announce in the coming month...)

 

The following skills are 

 

  • Web Development
    • PHP5 (frameworks; e.g. codeigniter)
    • MySQL
    • XML/JSON
    • HTML/CSS
    • Javascript (AJAX, Prototype, JQuery)
  • Bonus points for Graphic Design
  • Extra bonus points for
    • iPhone/Cocoa skills
    • Android/Java skills

 

Required abilities

Autonomous, rigorous, passionate.

And blazing fast! (like a ninja..) - but not too violent.

  • Bonus: you finished this iPhone Game and show up in the top 20 leaderboard [joke...]

 

More details

  • Position Available immediately. You can start yesterday..
  • Located in Paris 75014 (Montparnasse) (direct flights from NY and SFO)
  • Full time position - until you kill someone
  • Compensation: paid better than traditional ninja rates...

Interested? To apply, please send your CV and motivation statement to contact @ appsfire DOT com.

 

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Pastefire, top 2010 apps for Lifehacker

We love, when this happens: Pastefire is included in some of the very best 2010 apps for Lifehacker. 

Although to be honest Pastefire is not in the heart of our product development We created it in a few days for our own needs (and became quickly a hit), but down the road it gave us great ideas for features to be added in appsfire soon.

This being said, it is still one of the apps we internally use most. And most people who try it can t stop using it (even Google is coming with something like this) :)

Thanks to Lifehacker (we already had Gizmodo)

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