Venture Chronicles

We have experienced a lot of success with our NetNewsWire application on the iPhone, and like all good things in business it lent itself to a series of “what if” discussions internally, the result of which was what I am writing about today. With NewsGator’s native iPhone Apps your brand and content are just a [...]

UPDATE: My Monday morning math was off a digit, with 1.2 billion handsets sold on an annual basis, Apple’s 10 million share is .83% I was reminded about how important perspective is when last Friday I met up with Jackie Danicki, Chris Yeh, and Christine Lu, who had a great quote when she said “I [...]

This is a really smart move by the Obama campaign. Not only does it continue to push the tech savvy narrative that this campaign has earned (although that SMS gimmick for the VP announcement was a little lame), but it also looks like a pretty well thought out set of features to engage supporters. Politics [...]

I watched the Android coverage over the last couple of days and quite honestly, I don’t get it. Mossberg comes out with a column that basically says, to paraphrase, “the Android is a real competitor to the iPhone, here’s all the things that are better on the iPhone.” “Google’s new G1 phone announced today is [...]

Today we released some statistics for adoption and usage of our NetNewsWire for iPhone application. To recap, this is the downloadable and installable version of NNW for the iPhone, not the web-based version we launched last year when the original iPhone was released. # There are over 200,000 users of NetNewsWire for iPhone # Over [...]

Thomas Hawk nicely summarizes why I won’t upgrade to the 3G… I’ve had my “original iPhone” for about a year (bought it post price cut) and generally like it but the new iPhone simply doesn’t do it for me and I can’t see shelling out the $$ to get something that is a minor version [...]

NetNewsWire is now available on the iPhone. I don’t normally write about every product that we release but this one is really really cool because it takes full advantage of the touch interface to vastly enhance the user experience of a mobile feed reader. Apple made a couple of really strange design choices, like the [...]

Further evidence that we have become a society of the offended… the iPhone was designed to not use a stylus therefore Apple must hate women. Seriously, at one point did long fingernails become an ADA issue and is Ms. Currie unaware that there are other mobile phones she can buy that function better for her [...]

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009. [From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones in [...]