Brick CEO'S 2008 recompense valuable at $16.4M

Shantanu Narayen, the of import executive director of Jock software system creator Brick Systems INC., was awarded recompense valuable at $16.4 million in fiscal 2008, although the huge bulk of that was in stock options that currently have little value.
 

The Life of an iPhone App: Nice, Bestial and Short [IPhone Apps]

Our breakdown of the 500 million apps populating the App Depository was correcto: A study by Pinch Media shows lone 20 percentage of group use free apps again aft the first day they transfer it.

After a calendar month, the rate floral envelope off to about little than 5 percentage. Unpaid apps menu a little better, but not a whole lot, as you can see. It's beautiful significant that the average app is so crappy or item you lone use it for a single day, and within a calendar month, you're almost definitely not victimisation it. The presentation says that long-term users square measure "generally 1 percentage" of total downloads. These stats—and a economic condition of others in the presentation—are founded on concluded 30 million downloads half-track by Pinch.

For developers, the big convenience food is that it doesn't pay to just give your app away—unless you're in the top grating of prosperous apps, there's no way you'll make some monetary system with ads in a free app. Here is, however, show that offer a free nonfat turning of a unpaid app can boost sales.

But generally talking, your app is exit to have a short shelf-life: In the App Depository, because of the way it's designed—for "large indefinite quantity turnover—and because of the way group execute to be victimisation their apps. It helps if your app is a game, which fares a little better than otherwise cateogries, and you know, maybe if your app doesn't just make flatus noises. [Pinch Media via TechCrunch]




 

Brick CEO'S 2008 recompense valuable at $16.4M

Shantanu Narayen, the of import executive director of Jock software system creator Brick Systems INC., was awarded recompense valuable at $16.4 million in fiscal 2008, although the huge bulk of that was in stock options that currently have little value.
 

The Life of an iPhone App: Nice, Bestial and Short [IPhone Apps]

Our breakdown of the 500 million apps populating the App Depository was correcto: A study by Pinch Media shows lone 20 percentage of group use free apps again aft the first day they transfer it.

After a calendar month, the rate floral envelope off to about little than 5 percentage. Unpaid apps menu a little better, but not a whole lot, as you can see. It's beautiful significant that the average app is so crappy or item you lone use it for a single day, and within a calendar month, you're almost definitely not victimisation it. The presentation says that long-term users square measure "generally 1 percentage" of total downloads. These stats—and a economic condition of others in the presentation—are founded on concluded 30 million downloads half-track by Pinch.

For developers, the big convenience food is that it doesn't pay to just give your app away—unless you're in the top grating of prosperous apps, there's no way you'll make some monetary system with ads in a free app. Here is, however, show that offer a free nonfat turning of a unpaid app can boost sales.

But generally talking, your app is exit to have a short shelf-life: In the App Depository, because of the way it's designed—for "large indefinite quantity turnover—and because of the way group execute to be victimisation their apps. It helps if your app is a game, which fares a little better than otherwise cateogries, and you know, maybe if your app doesn't just make flatus noises. [Pinch Media via TechCrunch]




 

The Revival of Stand

While playing up on Simon Willison's feed, I stumbled upon his note that the Stand web hosting service was set to shut up down. Strangely decent, twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval, a small indefinite quantity weeks aft his post, I patterned Google News for more than details and remuneration an artifact posted just concluded an minute advance news that Lycos Accumulation remuneration a last-minute vendee and the service will no mortal be movement down.

I'm still not 100% clear on whether the closing would have unnatural Tripod in the Confederative States, but nevertheless, it reminded me of the old life when I could be reached at KLNA91B@prodigy.com. Maybe Tripod doesn't quite go that right back, but anybody United Nations agency was tinkering around with HTML and creating from raw materials homepages back in the 90s surely remembers stumbling upon pages hosted by Tripod in between AltaVista searches and experiments in self-expression.

It would be a shame to see Tripod go, if lone for the hungriness of it no. But realistically talking, has anyone finished a pulse check of those six million users?