November 2010 Blog Posts

Finding Windows Phone 7 apps

I mentioned AppFuze in my last post called "Filling in the gaps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace” and how they were filling in the gap for an online listing of WP7 apps. Well Bing have gone and blown that out of the water with their Visual Search, it is freakin awesome. The 3 apps I worked on Ministry of Sound, one for a broad sheet newspaper, and Shoot Shag Marry are 18th, 11th and 23rd in their respective categories.   Prefer Google as you search engine? Just look how rubbish the web based Android  App Search is. Yes Android is...

Filling in the gaps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace

Well Windows Phone 7 launch has gone well with the number of apps growing at an excellent rate. However as a user of a WP7 and an app developer there are a few bits currently missing from the Marketplace Usage Statistics Download and purchase reports are not due to be available until Jan 2011. We are all going to be anxiously waiting those reports to find out how successful our apps have been. If you cannot wait that long Mark Monster explains how you can use Google Analytics to capture usage information or checkout the Silverlight Analytics Framework on WP7 at Kodierer...