Tag Archives: Platform
Snapguide Rolls Out iPad App Ahead of Brand Platform
How-to app Snapguide debuted an iPad version today as it inches closer to rolling out opportunities for brands. The strategy of having marketers first use the service as regular users echoes the early approaches of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. The latter social scrapbooking app, in fact, may be Snapguide’s foremost competition. The reverse may also be true. Pinterest has users pin images into topical pinboards that can be shared, but anecdotes abound about first-time users having a hard time figuring out what to pin and why. Eventually examples like planning a wedding or decorating a house permeated Pinterest, giving users a better idea of what to do. Snapguide lacks …
Dell Has A New Platform As A Service That Actually Makes Sense
Dell has a new platform as a service (PaaS) and it actually makes sense. The service is called Project Fast PaaS, part of the new Dell Cloud Labs, which also includes Project Sputnik, the Linux laptop for developers and Crowbar, the open-source cloud deployment framework. Crowbar was originally created to support its “OpenStack- and Hadoop-powered offerings.” FastPaaS and the new Dell Cloud Labs reflects a paradox that I felt all week at Dell World. While Fast PaaS represents the innovation happening at Dell, as with any big enterprise company, it is dependent on making big deals with high margins that serve the basic demands of large enterprises. On Tuesday, I moderated a …
5 Ways To Manage App Development On The Android Platform Without Going Nuts
Alex Williams The fractured state of the Android platform can make it difficult to manage app development. Testing can be a bear but cloud-based services are providing new ways for developers to quickly see how their apps look on any type of device. In its presentation at PIE Demo Day in Portland on Friday, AppThwack’s Trent Peterson said the remedy comes in automating the testing. Through its cloud-based platform, developers can get answers in minutes to how their apps behave on all the various devices and version of the Android OS that people use. AppThwack runs a lab that tests every device that runs Android. They use that lab as the foundation for its …
Nadirim now available on Aeria Games Platform
Press Release Aeria Opens Portal Through Web Browsers to Free-to-Play Arabian Wonderland SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Aug. 02, 2012 – Get ready to discover the vast riches of the desert without even needing a magic lamp. Aeria Games, a leading global publisher of free-to-play online games, today announced the launch of Nadirim, a popular browser-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) on the Aeria Network. Putting a unique spin on the MMO genre, Nadirim immerses players in an exotic fantasy world heavily inspired by the fables and myths of the Arabian Nights. Taking the role of a Warrior, Sage, or Rogue, players will adventure alongside menacing beasts, mystical Djinn, and cunning thieves right out of …