Author Archives: Joel Ownby

About Joel Ownby

Joel Ownby started his first successful web business in 1996 taking advantage of the growing online auction trend and is an expert in development and internet marketing. In 2000 Joel founded CyberTronix and created many cutting edge internet and desktop applications that are still in use today. Joel Ownby became InfoMedia's first full-time employee in 2005 and has participatedin the company’s multimillion dollar informational product and software application launches. Joel is a respected industry leader in the areas of SEO, PPC, application development, mobile marketing, and affiliate marketing.

Fleetmaster, Blast4, and Chess Get Taunts & Avatars

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Joel Ownby

One of my favorite features in multiplayer games has always been the canned taunts you can send to the other players. The Age of Empires (Ensemble & Microsoft) franchise was one of the first games I can remember that made … Continue reading →

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Free Multiplayer Game Center Games Thrive on iTunes

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Joel Ownby

Just over two weeks after the release of Fleetmaster & Blast4 (our free multiplayer games that we released using Apple’s Game Center framework) the games have done an incredible 350,000 downloads. Strangely enough the vast majority of those downloads have … Continue reading →

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The New InfoMedia Site

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Joel Ownby

The new InfoMedia site came out of development yesterday and is up and running. We are very happy with the simple, clean look and are working on a few minor bugs pointed out by users. InfoMedia has long needed a … Continue reading →

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InfoMedia at Adtech San Francisco

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Joel Ownby

InfoMedia will be attending Adtech in San Francisco again this year. Adtech is always a great a show and we look forward to reconnecting with everyone. This Year’s Keynote Speakers: Jaime Cohen Szulc CMO, Levi Strauss & Co. Chris Anderson … Continue reading →

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The Death of AdMob

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Joel Ownby

    Apple just announced the addition of a native advertising platform for the new iPhone, iPod, and iPad OS 4.0. The people running AdMob over at google  must be trembling in their boots this very second. AdMob has secured … Continue reading →

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The Elevate Blueprint Launch

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Joel Ownby

The Elevate Blueprint is Joel Comm’s new flagship product created and designed to show all of our customers and clients exactly how we built and operate a multi-million dollar online business. Elevate is the most comprehensive business building blueprint covering … Continue reading →

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AdMob Ad Exchange Revisited

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Joel Ownby

The latest development in our ongoing AdMob experiment has left us scratching our heads once again. As I mentioned in a previous article, we have toyed with the ad exchange before with pretty limited results. This time around the numbers look … Continue reading →

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iFart Mobile Coming To Android

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Joel Ownby

[UPDATE -iFart now in Android Marketplace] Whether or not you know of iFart, we have had a ton of fun developing the little novelty app and have began porting iFart to Android. We realize that there are imitators on the … Continue reading →

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TwitPwr.com: More Than a Short URL Service

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Joel Ownby

Twitpwr.com was dreamt up when Joel Comm and Dan Nickerson were trying to find a creative way to promote Joel’s book Twitter Power. The basic concept was for a Twitter short url service with stats, but some really cool additions … Continue reading →

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The AdMob Ugly

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Joel Ownby

We started using AdMob to deliver advertising inside our iPhone applications shortly after the launch of the app store. The mobile advertising network deserves praise for being one of the front runners in the race to deliver effective mobile advertising … Continue reading →

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