GM Pulled Ads After Facebook Begged It To Use Free Media
With Facebook’s IPO looming, General Motors pulled its entire $10 million ad budget from the social network after Facebook executives urged the company to concentrate more on posting free content to its Brand Page, according to Reuters. The account dovetails with BI’s May 16 report, which noted that General Motors wasn’t executing the basics...
Read MoreSilence Spammy Apps And More With Facebook’s New Notification Controls
If there’s something on Facebook that won’t stop pinging you with Notifications, tell it to shut up instantly with Facebook’s new granular, in-line notification controls. Hover over an alert in the Facebook.com homepage’s globe icon drop-down and click the ‘x’ for the option to turn off notifications from that app, group, event, or post you...
Read MorePentagon Wants Web Apps to Stop Piracy, for Some Reason
The U.S.S. Farragut after disabling a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, 2009. The Navy now wants Web apps to cut down on piracy. Photo: U.S. Navy Updated 9:09 a.m., May 15 The Navy’s far-out research wing thinks it’s found a way to cut down on the scourge of maritime piracy: apps. Commence the face-palming. The Navy announced on Monday that it’s awarding...
Read MoreWelcome to Your New Appsbar.com
We have turned on the all new appsbar.com to make the easiest-to-use tool for building and publishing apps – even faster and more intuitive. Now you can spend less time making even better Android, Apple, Blackberry, Facebook and Windows Phone apps! We’ve taken all your ideas and feedback from over the last year and are giving back to you an easier and...
Read MoreFree app builder becomes biz icon
By Jesse Poole Sunday, May 13, 2012 - Want to create an app for a smartphone? Well, there’s an app for that, and it’s free. Appsbar.com, a small Florida-based company, is helping to turn app users into app builders. After a yearlong beta period — during which it went from 100 to 100,000 users building downloadable applications — Appsbar plans to launch...
Read MoreApps Aren’t Dead. Neither is The Web. The Parrot Is, Though…
“I believe the shift toward apps is about user experience.” Benjamin Sandofsky, Tech Lead on Twitter for iPhone, iPad, and MacApps vs. The Mobile Web. It’s often presented by the media as an either/or, winner-takes-all proposition. Usually accompanied by an “X is Dead” headline. Wired Magazine (in)famously declared that...
Read MoreFacebook Launches App Center, Lets You Sell Apps
Mashable: Facebook just got a little bit more like Apple and Google. The company announced on Wednesday that it is building its own app center. It will also enable paid Facebook apps for the first time. Users currently search for apps on Facebook using the same search bar they use to find people, groups and events. In the coming weeks, they’ll be able to...
Read MoreU.S. Mobile Users Love Apps, Especially Facebook
If Facebook’s recent internet past is any bellwether, mobile may represent the next major boost to its ad revenue. For one, U.S. smartphone users are as addicted to Facebook on their phones as they are online. In March, 78 million adults visited Facebook’s app or website on their smartphones, according to ComScore’s first mobile-media rankings....
Read MoreThe future of media on mobile devices is with HTML5.. appsbar apps are HTML5..hmmmm
Technology Review By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical and revolutionary” new machines in San Francisco, traditional publishers had been overtaken by a collective delusion. They believed that mobile computers with large, colorful screens, such as the iPad, iPhone, and...
Read MoreHalf of Consumers Use Smartphones While Working Out [INFOGRAPHIC]
Working out may be a time to unwind and clear your head, but more consumers are turning to smartphones to stay connected while exercising, according to a new study. A new infographic from market research firm Lab42 found that 51% of consumers are using smartphones during their workouts, whether for checking email (33%) or tracking their pace (43%). Listening to...
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