This article was originally published for Boston World Partnerships on March 30, 2011. Go here to see it live.
When it Rains, It Pours. Boston’s Mobile Scene has a Deluge of Job Openings!
We all know that Boston is a leading innovation city. And mobile has become one of the hot industries in the Boston/Cambridge metro-area with over 100 companies and several exciting liquidity events making...
WHERE is a leading location-based smart phone application in that connects users with information about their local area including the closest and cheapest gas, traffic updates, movie show times, hottest restaurants, and nearest Starbucks.
In chatting with Jerry King, COO of WHERE, it is clear that the future of marketing will be hyper-local and super-targeted. People have been talking about this for a while...
Ideas for iPhone apps seem to flow as abundantly as wine at an Italian dinner party. Individuals and businesses have many insights, but what does it really take to develop a successful application?
Brad Rosen, Founder and CEO of Drync, is a Boston area serial entrepreneur with many successful products under his belt. Drync, his latest venture, is an iPhone app that simplifies the way consumers research, remember,...
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Social media is literally on the move and creating the next frontier of opportunity. The pervasive presence of social networking sites such as Facebook (250M+ active users, 120M daily users) and LinkedIn (40M users) is being untethered from the computer and going mobile.
Using mobile phones, social mobile media (“SoMo”) allows users to directly show and tell friends what they are doing in real time. This...
The big question everyone wants to know is can developers (and their clients) really make money building applications? Can it be a sustainable business model? There are stories of guys in their basements minting thousands of dollars a day. Is that real? (And can I get a piece of that…?)
The speakers at MobileMonday Boston’s latest event (industry luminaries from RIM, AT&T, uLocate, Device Anywhere, and New...
Heather is a Boston-based, very mobile marketing strategist. After working for 15+ years for global marketing agencies & brands she started consulting with fast-growth start-ups and became enamored with the transformation made possible by mobile innovation. Now she helps companies integrate mobile strategy into their marketing mix. Interests include managing her iPhone addiction, travel and adrenaline-inducing sports.