With the introduction of the new iAd platform, will undoubtedly come new opportunities.  Lets take a quick look at who might benefit:

• Application developers: Apple will be paying up to 10x current mobile ad market rates for displaying an iAd!
• Advertisers: More interactive capabilities than ever before.  With higher prices, will they see a good ROI?
• Apple: Takes a 40% piece of whatever pie comes to pass.  Projected to be up to 50% of mobile ad market!
• iAd developer: Scarce resource, at least in the beginning. High demand.  Opportunity foot in mobile/interactive ads door.

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Why should you have to log in to facebook to see photos intended to be shared with the world? Do we want Facebook/Google/etc to dictate what users can to with their content? I decided to borrow some photos from my facebook account (those from my mobile uploads album) and make them available here via the Facebook API.

Check out my Facebook photo experiment. (2010-present)

Social Gaming gone overboard!  Escape to Cade’s Cove on your iPhone…

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iPhone application for texting in constrained environments. 3-tap texting!

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