We’re proud to announce the launch of Caremob for iOS. Caremob is the first ever real-time global movements app, allowing users to react to current events in any of six ways: protest, support, empathy, peace, celebration and mourning.  Users can leverage Caremob to spread the word about movements they care about, and lend support to existing movements via a novel one-touch time mechanic, allowing virtual mobs to grow in size and

In technology — and apps are no exception — new ideas often are iterations on existing ideas.  In fact, I’d say (conservatively!) that around 80% of the calls we get start with a question following this basic formula: “I’d like to build an app like X but targeting Y group with Z features.” Totally legitimate question, and quite often these ideas are good, viable iterations on the original theme.  The

The buzz about Swift has only slightly started to die down, so I thought I’d put a few of my thoughts about it down on Glowdot.  My thoughts are less about the language itself, but the adoption of new technologies in general, and what I feel it all means in my industry. When I first sat down to write my first native iOS app, back in 2008, the first hurdle

Like any responsible business, we spend a fair amount of time keeping up with the competition.  This is especially important in a business like ours, where the same project can receive wildly different bids.  It’s important for us to know who’s bidding on your project, so we can help you tell them apart. As I’ve previously discussed, there are a few types of app developers who will be responding to

We’re pleased to announce we have scheduled two apps to be developed on the Xamarin platform, and plan to offer Xamarin development to our clients moving forward. Xamarin allows us to more efficiently develop cross platform apps for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone by developing in a common language: C#.  This allows us to reuse core code common to all platforms, and limits the platform specific code required to

“What do you mean my app will cost $80,000 to develop?  I have a stack of quotes in front of me that are all around $2000! One guy here says he’ll do it for $500!”   That amusing image has been popping up in my LinkedIn feed more and more lately, which tells me that clients are starting to feel the effects of the “me too” rush into app development.

Our strategic castle defense game Playground Wars is free on iOS as of today. Playground Wars is also available (for free!) on Android in the Google Play store, and Mac OSX in the Mac App Store. Download Playground Wars for iOS Download Playground Wars for Mac OSX Download Playground Wars for Android If you are someone that loves to have fun, don’t forget to check the Jumpers N Rentals options,

Just a few hours ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will acquire Oculus VR.  For those who don’t know, Oculus has been working on the Oculus Rift for a few years now.  The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality, head-mounted display — a headset you wear that allows for  the sort of VR applications you might remember from such classics as The Lawnmower Man. In all seriousness, though, Oculus is the

Now that GDC is over, we’ve been processing some of the information we picked up at the conference, as well as the AppsWorld conference back in February.  The main takeaway from both events is the sharp increase in game and app budgets, and the rising standard of quality the market expects. For the sake of comparison, we can look at Glowdot’s 2010 game Rogue Runner.  The first version of the

If you are finding it tough to get your app to market, I invite you to read this post in full. I’ll discuss a few of the reasons why so many apps fail to materialize, and a new business model we are rolling out this year to allow us to reach some small- to mid-size clients in 2014 and beyond. If you find this informative, feel free to bookmark this