I spent the day at the affiliate marketing summit in Las Vegas. This industry was once known as the center of spam. It still draws people pitching nutritional supplements and payday loans, but there are some clear signs of maturity, and is firmly established as part of the marketing stack.
I find that I have been having the same conversation about mobile gaming repeatedly, with a number of different people. Usually, that’s a signal that I should publish something. Ben […]
I wanted to comment briefly on the news that Yahoo! has acquired Flurry. This a turning point, or a milestone. A marker of some sort. The End of the Beginning […]
Before the show, I posted that the nature of MWC has changed a lot over the years. This used to be a show solely focused on selling heavy iron networking […]
There has been a ton of coverage on the Facebook/WhatsApp deal. I have read only a small portion of it, but I would classify much of the reaction as stunned silence. […]
King Digital filed to go public this morning. For people who enjoy this sort of thing (raise my hand) this F-1 has been eagerly anticipated for a while. King Digital (ticker […]
A few months back I wrote about Facebook’s acquisition of Parse. Parse provided a “Mobile Back-End as a Service” (MBaS), which is an ungainly acronym for what is essentially a cloud-based […]
A few weeks back I took a look at the mobile advertising landscape and the future of some of the smaller players in the market. In that piece, I mentioned that […]
I have been thinking about how mobile apps make money. In my post on Friday, I linked to a post from web greybeard Tim Bray who lamented that no one […]
This post has been burning inside us for a long time. We should have written it a year ago, but other things intervened. In a previous post, we touched on […]
