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ByteClub.tvOctober 23

So, as some of you guys might no. I’m not longer a partner at Unspace Interactive. But, I’m still involved there! Its the company that I helped grow and I’m still on the ‘team’. I’m just in Florida working on other shit right now and a bit of Unspace work. Still the best damn company in the country for this kind of stuff. Anyhow, a few months ago ByteClub.tv came by and did a video about Unspace (no, we didn’t pay for it). Its really good! I look kind of fat sitting, but beyond that, I love it!

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Also, they covered the Ruby conference that I helped put together!

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MobileOrchard InterviewOctober 23

Wow, this is a week of me-on-the web! Dan Grigsby gave me a call and we did an interview focusing on the iPhone development that I’ve been doing recently.

Listen here!

MobileOrchard is a pretty awesome blog, I have to say. Dan gives us a developer view of the new G1 phone! And a ton of other related articles.

Hampton Hates Automated TestingOctober 22

Hampton’s Testing Theorem: “Unit tested code often contains more bugs than its non unit tested counterpart.”

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Hampton Hates Automated Testing from Hampton Catlin on Vimeo.

iTunes Sales Drop?October 3

My iPhone app iWik has been floating around 48-50 on the “Top Paid iPhone App” list for the last month. To keep that spot in popularity I used to have to sell around 1,600 copies a day. It seems that it has dropped in the last week to about 1,000 sales per 24-hours. However, I’m still in the same spot.

Has the economic crisis in the US caused total sales to drop for iTunes? I wouldn’t be surprised. People thinking twice about dropping $1-$5 on something they don’t really need.

I wonder if this is hitting the entire for-pay software market? Its not a total business killer, but its definitely a drop in numbers. 1,000 would not have kept me on that list just a few weeks ago.

PS: This lack of an NDA is cool….

iWik Cracked!September 24

I don’t know if most of you know, but I’m spending most of my time doing iPhone products right now. The major one I have out there is “iWik: Wikipedia for your iPhone.” Its been selling well, but today reached a new milestone. You can download it with a torrent!

http://iphonemon.com/2008/09/24/390-appstore-cracked-via-torrent/

Amazing!

Best part is… its version 1.0… which doesn’t work anymore.

PS: Did anyone see iWik featured on iTunes last week. AND it was in Time Magazine (in the US only) for September!