We are looking for local (i.e. local to their country) country managers to help us add online and local retailers to ShopSavvy. Our mobile price comparison application is one of the most popular on Android in the US and UK, but we need help everywhere else. It was easy to add retailers in the US since we live here, figuring out which to add in Australia is a lot harder for us. That is where you come in. Watch this short video and if you are still interested fill out our short application.
Several of you have asked that we host another AndroidDevCamp here in Dallas. How about we host a MobileDevCamp (iPhone/Android/Palm) on a Saturday sometime this summer? Maybe July or August?
My thought is that we host a three track event:
Keynote: 10AM
Track 1: iPhone
11:00-11:30AM Session One iPhone
11:30-12:00AM Session Two iPhone
12:00-1:00PM Lunch/Break (Together)
1:00-2:00PM Workshop (Together)
2:00-3:30PM Session Three iPhone
3:30-4:00PM Session Four iPhone
4:00-5:00PM Networking/Drinks (Together)
Track 2: Android
11:00-11:30AM Session One Android
11:30-12:00AM Session Two Android
12:00-1:00PM Lunch/Break (Together)
1:00-2:00PM Workshop (Together)
2:00-3:30PM Session Three Android
3:30-4:00PM Session Four Android
4:00-5:00PM Networking/Drinks (Together)
Track 3: Palm Pre
11:00-11:30AM Session One Pre
11:30-12:00AM Session Two Pre
12:00-1:00PM Lunch/Break (Together)
1:00-2:00PM Workshop (Together)
2:00-3:30PM Session Three Pre
3:30-4:00PM Session Four Pre
4:00-5:00PM Networking/Drinks (Together)
If you are interested in hosting one of the sessions please ping me ASAP. Just explain what you plan to discuss and tell me a little about yourself (a short bio would be nice). Email: amuse@biggu.com
We need your help! We get one or two emails each day from users who can’t find ShopSavvy in the Android Market. There are mentions of this problem in the Android Market support forums, but our contacts at Google can’t replicate the issue (we were able to replicate it once very early on, but not recently). This is worrisome, because most users won’t even realize that ShopSavvy is missing because they aren’t looking for it. How many downloads are we missing? No one knows.
We get lots of emails - positive and negative - and we have learned to take many of them with a grain of salt. But yesterday, our friends at Amazon reported the ‘missing Android app issue’ and they were adamant that ShopSavvy was missing from their Android Market application.
How can you help? Please visit the market right now. Look under All Applications and sort by popularity. Take a picture of that screen (screen grab or just a plain photo) and email it to support@biggu.com - let us know if ShopSavvy was missing. Your help is much appreciated. If we can replicate the problem on a large scale a) we will know there is a real problem and b) our friends at Google might be able to figure out what is going on. In the meantime if you don’t have ShopSavvy and can’t find it in the market just Download ShopSavvy Here.
Update: lots of you have reported the problem since this post. Thanks for your help. Here is an example of ShopSavvy missing from the Android Market:
Are you a ShopSavvy user living in the DC area (including MD or VA)? Would you like to be on NPR? Yuki Noguchi from NPR wants to do a story about comparison shopping using cell phones. She wants to follow you as you shop in the capital area. How about it? Give ShopSavvy some love? Get your 15 minutes of fame? Email Yuki Noguchi with your contact info: ynoguchi@npr.org Thanks!
The Big in Japan team is splitting duties this week. Rylan and me (Alex) are in San Francisco at Google IO living the Android dream. Jason is back in Dallas, but will virtually be in Singapore at the CodeAndroid Meetup (via Skype). Want to connect with us at Google IO? Just email or txt amuse@biggu.com or 214.558.1079.
On a side note Scott and Cathy, our PR team, just had a baby boy named Benjamin (6lbs14oz.) check him out on Flickr. Congrats to Scott and Cathy!!! Welcome Benjamin!
Big in Japan builds cool applications for mobile devices, including Apple’s award winning iPhone and Google’s open source Android platform, think of us as the mobile idea factory. Our most popular application is ShopSavvy.
We need your help! We get one or two emails each day from users who can’t find ShopSavvy in the Android Market. There are mentions of this problem in the Android Market support forums, but our contacts at Google can’t replicate the issue (we were able to replicate it once very early on, but not recently). This is worrisome, because most users won’t even realize that ShopSavvy is missing because they aren’t looking for it. How many downloads are we missing? No one knows.
The Big in Japan team is splitting duties this week. Rylan and me (Alex) are in San Francisco at 