Should I build an iPad application?

Look at the analytics.  If you’re users are visiting your existing website via mobile devices you can make a better decision.

If you’re using Google Analytics, go to Visitors > Mobile > Mobile Devices.

Media companies, Magazine, Subscription based websites and advertisers should consider building iPad applications.  I’ve tried to list out the following benefits.

Visitors by Mobile Device in Google Analytics

- Instant distribution of content

- Gain insights about the content published (for example, see how many users read each article)

- registered user option (paying or free access to both the app and/or each edition)

- applications built on XML are easy to keep the updated with continuous streams of content with each new edition read more

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Why did Microsoft buy Skype?

What did Microsoft really buy in this deal?

Code? Nah…

The Skype technology code base is similar to a version 1.0 of a microsoft product and is notoriously known for having been riddled with technical inefficiencies.  The Microsoft Lync product has relatively similar features to Skype.  So if Microsoft really wanted better code, I would guess that they could have out-coded Skype for say a budget of about $1 billion and still have saved 7.5 billion dollars.  So lets take technology and source code off the table.  That’s not it.

Affiliate Relationships? Nope… read more