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The Evolution of Mobile Apps Since 1994

Arkenea

The tech slang ‘app’ was voted the 2010 ‘Word of the Year’ by the American Dialect Society,as the word best summed up people’s preoccupation in the previous year. When apps went beyond mobile phones With 2 billion downloads in the four years, Angry Birds game is a household name. Let’s build and see!

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones. Only to prospective dates rather than work colleagues.

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Telerik Retiring: Alternatives and Next Steps for Software Usage Analytics Customers

Revulytics

In-App Messaging You May Not Have Expected. ReachOut functionality lets you take advantage of all of the data you have collected about a user to deliver contextually relevant in-application messages to your users. Gartner named Revulytics a 2017 Cool Vendor in Tech Go-to-Market. billion in new license revenue.

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The Rollaboard suitcase and the Paradox of Specificity

The Product Coalition

I said to my wife, ‘You know, that’s what we need for luggage’,” Sadow recalled to the New York Times in 2010. They struggled with the original name, Schweizer Offiziersmesser, and it became known as the Swiss Army Knife. Workers were writing messages on the notes to communicate around the office.

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Why I Abandoned the Rackspace Cloud

Sachin Rekhi

But I regularly would receive e-mails like the following: This message is to inform you that the host server your Cloud Server 'cloud-512-2' is on became unresponsive at 10:15 PM CST today. AWS is currently offering completely free data transfer into EC2 instances for the first half of 2010. Compare that to Rackspace's $0.08/GB.

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Webinar: What to Do Before and After a Mobile App Launch to Improve Customer Experience

Alchemer Mobile

So to give you a little bit of an introduction, and if you’re looking on the webcam, I promise that Robi and I did not coordinate our green and red Christmas attire for today’s webinar, but my name is Ben Johnson. I don’t think Burbn is a household name. So this was when Foursquare used to be cool.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Boomi is a cloud integration company that I worked on and built for 10 years and was acquired by Dell in 2010. There were 68 different systems that they were using, from notepads to wikis to Google Drive folders to a SharePoint site, to you name it. I then stayed with Dell for three years, and left to start Guru in 2013.