Operation Magnets Storm!

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Tuesday, June 12th 2012

About a month ago, we sent more than 500 GoodBarber magnets with thank you postcards signed by the entire team to 12 different countries, on 4 continents, in the Atlantic (Caribbean) and Pacific (Polynesia). The target: our user community.

Here’s a summary of the operation stages with no less than a month and a half for preparation: card design and production, sign each card by every team member (it’s not an easy task), purchase stamps for 3 different destinations (France, Europe, rest of the world), manual preparation of envelopes, and shipping.

Candidates, Elected Representatives: Your Essential Mobile Applications

Written by on Monday, May 21st 2012

With the various 2012 elections, GoodBarber has strengthened its status as the mobile solution for public figures. Several politicians are now using our service to ensure their presence in the App Store, Google Play, or Windows Marketplace.

Candidates, Elected Representatives: Your Essential Mobile Applications

To ensure their mobile presence, Jean-Pierre Chèvenement (Senator, former Minister) and Paul Giacobbi (MP, Chairman of the Executive Council of Corsica) have been using our service for a long time. They also use WMaker, Goodbarber’s sister service for the web.

Twitter On Your App

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Friday, March 30th 2012

Enhance your application with your tweets, and allow your readers to reply or retweet you directly from your application.

Our goal is to enable you to combine all of your content sources in one single application, and to offer an exciting and unique experience for your readers. Integrating Twitter with GoodBarber was planned on our roadmap. For several days, your back office Sources page has included a space for Twitter.

It’s extremely simple: you have to click twice.

Your live thread is displayed on the application, and the “Reply” and “Retweet” options are available.

Broadcast Your Dailymotion Channel On Mobile Devices

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Thursday, March 29th 2012

As promised, GoodBarber is enhanced with new content sources. In terms of video, your Dailymotion channels and playlists can now be connected to your application.

Broadcast Your Dailymotion Channel On Mobile Devices

It functions the same as YouTube in the GoodBarber back office. Enter the name of your Dailymotion channel on the Sources page. GoodBarber will recognize it and ask you either to import all videos, or import one or more of your playlists.

If you select the playlists, you can connect as many as you like by pairing each playlist with a navigation tab located on your tab bar.

Your application can keep your videos on a single tab with your other content sources and even become a real “video app.”

Retina Power

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Wednesday, March 28th 2012

Since the end of last week, the iPad apps that you configure with GoodBarber are up to Retina Display standard.

We had announced it last Thursday in our blog. Since Friday, your GoodBarber apps have an optimized display for every version of the iPad, even the new iPad with Retina display.

Your GoodBarber Apps And The New iPad

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Thursday, March 22nd 2012

Conscious to closely follow market developments and benefit you to the greatest degree, an iOS update is coming soon so that your apps are up-to-date with the new iPad.

We’ve been on the starting blocks since March 7th, and even before. If you follow us on Twitter, you’ve probably seen photos of the new model that we received last Friday. We were eager to test GoodBarber apps on the new iPad, but not without some anxiety. Display problems can always be a possibility, especially in the case of a version with a doubled screen resolution.

Pleasant surprise, GoodBarber apps remain stable on the new iPad, but we will make quick adjustments to our system so that you are able to take full advantage of the Retina Display. We will allow GoodBarber users to load images that are twice as big.

And you will all benefit from a free update for your iOS app, so that you can bring your apps to new iPad’s level.

We will talk to you about it again soon.

Android Market Integrated With Google Play

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Wednesday, March 7th 2012

Google has announced the launch of Google Play, a platform that unifies apps, books, music and movies. A few hours before the announcement of Apple’s iPad 3 Keynote, Google launches its iTunes killer.

Android Market Integrated With Google Play

Google Play is an “integrated destination” for mobile applications, books, music and movies, accessible from all Android devices or the Internet. The Android Market, familiar to Android device users, disappears, giving way to Play Store - one of the four components of the Google Play platform. Google Music becomes Play Music, Google Books becomes Play Books, and Google Movies becomes Play Movies.

MWC 2012 – Day Three, Focus On Devices

Written by Dominique Siacci on Wednesday, February 29th 2012

As promised, this morning I spent some time touring the booths in search of innovations. I also had the opportunity to play with the new devices and test the quality of the products. Note: it’s impossible to test all the devices at the show, so I made a selection.

Android Devices

The vast majority of phones and tablets presented at the Mobile World Congress are Android devices. As usual with this system, there are high and low quality devices.

MWC 2012 – Day Two, Focus On Monetization

Written by Dominique Siacci on Tuesday, February 28th 2012

On the second day at MWC I had a little more time to converse with some exhibitors. It’s not possible to meet them all, or to describe them all (the exhibition catalog is 300 pages long!), so my visits were focused on application monetization services. I briefly describe three of the most interesting below.

MWC 2012 – Day Two, Focus On Monetization

MWC 2012 – Day One, First Impressions

Written by Dominique Siacci on Monday, February 27th 2012

If we were car manufacturers or a car dealership, our annual event would be the auto show. But at GoodBarber, we make mobile apps, and the big annual event happens in Barcelona. Barcelona is the Mobile World Capital (until 2017), so it's the city that hosts the annual Mobile World Congress, a huge event for mobile professionals.

When we take a look, nearly all sectors are represented: from the antenna manufacturer or foundries, from the application developer, to the operators or device manufacturers.

GoodBarber at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona

Written by GoodBarber on Monday, February 27th 2012

Meet Dominique, our CEO, at the Mobile World Congress until Wednesday.

GoodBarber at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona

GoodBarber participates in key events of the mobile and IT industry. After the 2011 “Mobile World Congress” a year ago in Barcelona, “Le Mobile 2.0” in Paris in March 2011, “LeWeb'11 ” last December in Paris, we are present at the “Mobile World Congress ” this year again.

Finding an accommodation in Barcelona for this major event is not a easy. Dominique Siacci, our young and intrepid CEO, does not cease by so few. You will find him in the aisles of the MWC until Wednesday. Don’t hesitate to tweet @dsiacci or @good_barber, to track Dume Siacci on Foursquare. As for groupies, just write me, I would give you his personal phone number...

Trends in Mobile Traffic by 2016 According to Cisco

Written by Ghjancarlu Simeoni on Thursday, February 23rd 2012

An article published on www.igeneration.fr on February 14th, echos a study published by Cisco on the same day: Cisco expects an explosive growth of mobile Internet traffic via moblie devices. In 2016, 10 billion mobile devices are expected to be connected to the net for 7.3 billion people.

Trends in Mobile Traffic by 2016 According to Cisco

In a study on trends in mobile data traffic, Cisco identified 10 main trends. Cisco anticipates a monthly traffic volume of 10.8 exabytes in 2016. There have been 0.6 billion exabytes in 2011, and should be 1.3 billion in 2012. Traffic will be multiplied by 18 between 2011 and 2016; and by 2 between 2011 and 2012. The growth rate of traffic data was higher than expected in 2011. At the end of 2012, the number of mobile devices connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people in the world. In 2016, the ratio between the number of connected mobile devices and world population will be 1.4. Of the 10 trends described by Cisco, three of them particularly characterize the mobile market in our view.