iPhone Economy app now the #1 paid app in the Finance category

July 30, 2009

Terrific news tonight (Thursday, 7/30), our iPhone Economy app is now the #1 paid app in the “Finance” category. This is a remarkable achivement for the app and I’d like to thank all users who’ve tried out the app and helped make this a popular app.

The iPhone Economy app was released on July 4 and it got to the 4th place (in “Finance” ) within a week after release. We have received a number of emails from users and most of them said they loved the app. Many (though not all) feature requests/suggestions from our users will be implemented in our 1.1 release. The 1.1 version is due to be released in the first half of August.

http://CascadeSoft.net/Economy.aspx has more details on the app and the app can be downloaded from the app store.

Incidentally, the iPhone Economy app is the 4th app from Cascade Software Corporation.

It is also the second #1 app from Cascade Software Corporation. Last year, our first app (the iPhone Election app) was – at one time – the #1 paid app in the “News” category.

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iPhone Economy app now featured in Apple’s (iTunes) STAFF FAVORITES section

July 28, 2009

Great news, the iPhone Economy app is now featured in Apple’s  (iTunes) “STAFF FAVORITES” section. I got a call from a friend at 11pm tonight (Monday, 7/27) and was pleasantly surprised to hear that the app is now featured in iTunes.

http://CascadeSoft.net/Economy.aspx has more details on the app and the app can be downloaded from the app store.

It is one of the 8 featured apps on the first page of the “STAFF FAVORITES” section (in an app store that has more 65,000 apps)

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Product UI Design: Why the green up-arrow isn’t always good

July 5, 2009

Shipping a product always involves making tough calls. Some of these interesting decisions relate to questions that may seem minor. One such question Read the rest of this entry »

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iPhone Economy app now in the app store

July 4, 2009

Great news, the iPhone Economy app was released today (July 4) evening.

This app gives you a snapshot of the US economy with the latest values of several key economic indicators published by the Federal Reserve. It also provides interesting graphs with historical values of these indicators over the past few months, years and decades.

Details of the app are available at http://CascadeSoft.net/Economy.aspx and the app can be downloaded from the app store.

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iPhone startups and where the VC investment is going

July 3, 2009

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NDA: What to consider before agreeing on a non-disclosure agreement

June 30, 2009

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Usage Scenarios: How users can surprise product developers and why to ship early

June 17, 2009

From my own product-experience, I’ve noticed that users sometimes use products in scenarios that product-developers hadn’t necessarily considered or thought of as potentially popular usage scenarios. Read the rest of this entry »

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Civic Software, Twitter and the Moldova and Iran elections

June 17, 2009

Very few companies focus exclusively on civic software. Cascade Software Corporation is one of them (though that will change soon). A lot more non-profits and foundations work for social good and the country and world are better off because of their work.

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User Review: Government Spending app

May 1, 2009

While talking about TV coverage of the app, I had mentioned that writing the iPhone “Government Spending” app was a lot of fun.

I also enjoyed reading the first review on iTunes. Here is what the reviewer said about the app.

‘Wow is this an eye-opener! No opinions here, just the facts. Straight information from the government’s own databases on who’s been getting federal contracts, and for what since 2000. You can look it up by department, by state or even by item – which makes for some very interesting browsing.
Try looking up ‘land mines’, for instance, and you’ll see a sharp escalation in 2008. What’s the story behind that ??

And that, in a nutshell, is what you get from this very handy app: the straight story on what the government has been buying with your tax dollars.  This is one reference app that will actually raise more questions than it answers – as well it should. Kudos to the developers for a nice job in putting this information into a format that’s easy (and fun) to explore.’

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TV coverage: iPhone Government Spending app

May 1, 2009

This is turning out to be a good week. We released the iPhone “Government Spending” app and users are enjoying this civic software app.

The app also got good TV coverage. Erik Sandoval (a news anchor for Northwest Cable News) discussed the app with me and he talked about the app on this week’s “Talkin tech” segment.

Check out the tv coverage on  http://www.nwcn.com/video/tech-index.html?nvid=357050 (our regional cable news network) or http://www.king5.com/video/?nvid=357050  (our local NBC affiliate). It is a short video.

The app is available in the app store. Writing the iPhone “Government Spending” app was a lot of fun and I’m glad that users are enjoying it. I’ll add another post with comments from the first review on iTunes.

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