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SharePrice iPhone app - one of the stickiest to date?

Flurry.com recently published an interesting article about mobile app loyalty and frequency of usage. It can be read in full here; but in summary highlighted the challenge faced by any mobile app developer - that of cutting through the ‘noise’ of over 75,000 apps that are now available in the iTunes app store alone. [...]

Weekend outage 13th - 14th June 2009

Some users will have noticed all of our services were unavailable from Saturday late afternoon through to Sunday.
We apologise for this unplanned outage, due to a power failure in one of our cabinets at our primary data centre. Whilst the majority of our hardware has fault tolerant power supplied from two separate circuits, our [...]

Playing a small part in something BIG

So, the call came in late last Friday afternoon. 
A major site launch of a confidential nature needed some support in terms of being able to deliver advertising for a major sponsor who had booked banners and pre-roll advertising but had no capability to serve such.  The production company involved in the creation of the site (and TV programming) knew our [...]

StockTwips launches

Warning: This post contains lots of words beginning with Tw….
I’m not a great user of Twitter; but it seems millions are. I guess as a means to send and receive messages between large groups of people it’s pretty efficient.
The service has moved on somewhat from the days of tweeting your friends to say you’ve [...]

Audience Development

Notes from a recent presentation (the link to the presentation is at the foot of the post):
Audience development - pivotal to success
Audience Development is split between retaining satisfied customers and growing the customer base.
customer acquisition
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manage SEO of all pages taking into consideration current best practice
by order of importance
on page:

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Keyword frequency and density
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Google Finance Android App - ’streaming’ ?

Since I launched (still?) the only stock market application to truly stream tick by tick data on to the iPhone and Android I feel that I’m fairly qualified to comment on the continued mis-use of the term ’streaming’ which is used widely by my competitors and most recently by Google Finance who launched their Android [...]

Beyond the Crisis: Debating the role of innovation

Response to the questions posed for debate at tonight’s (2 March 2008) Innovation Forum event ‘Beyond the Crisis: Debating the role of innovation‘ at the Hub Kings Cross (34b York Way, London N1 9AB) - ‘there may never have been a better time, or a greater need, for profound innovation’ and that ‘during and after [...]

Announcing ‘SharepriceAir’ - desktop ticker application

We’ve just released an Adobe Air desktop ticker in to public beta , allowing users to keep an eye on their investments in ticker format on their screen.  Prices are currently delayed.  Use the ’settings’ option (the ‘cog’ icon on the right) to add / remove instruments and position the ticker to your own preference.  Supports [...]

Shareprice Android app goes live

Utilising Lightstreamer’s Java SE adapter and the Android SDK, our v1 Shareprice app was released to the Android Market today.  Search on the T-Mobile G1 (more handsets to follow no doubt) via the Finance section for ‘Shareprice’.
Like our iPhone app, it’s free to download and streams real-time LSE data for registered users of shareprice.co.uk on [...]

shareprice.co.uk - an update

What started out as a small R&D project is rapidly growing in to something quite exciting.  The project has already proven a new equity data feed sufficiently well for us to be rolling it out on to iii.co.uk during December.  This will fix a number of data accuracy issues we’ve been having over the last [...]

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