Category Archives: mobile

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 Joel Comm Show Is Back

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Sarah Beek

“The Joel Comm Show” has returned, and will now be broadcast each Wednesday at 12 PM Eastern on WebmasterRadio.FM. The show will cover a wide range of topics including traffic generation, using social media effectively, site monetization, Web 2.0 issues, … 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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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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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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Skype for iPhone causes legal debate, FCC asked to take action

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Jon Carroll

Since the release of Skype for the iPhone and iTouch last week it has been downloaded over 2 million times. That breaks down to about 2-3 downloads per second since it was released on March 31 despite being limited to use on a Wi-Fi connection and not a cellular connection. Continue reading →

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