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SlashData Team
Jul 10, 20173 min read
Welcome to SlashData: the next 10 years.
We‘ve come a long way since VisionMobile was founded in 2005. I founded the company just after I had left Orange (the telco) as a means...
SlashData Team
May 8, 20176 min read
How Orange doubled the size of its developer community in 18 months.
Orange is one of the world’s leading operators with 265 million customers in 29 countries, offering fixed and mobile connectivity...
SlashData Team
Jan 30, 20176 min read
Developer Program Metrics: How Intuit Measures Developer Success
How do you grow a successful developer community around a financial product? Intuit’s Quickbooks is a well-known small business...
SlashData Team
Jan 13, 20176 min read
Developer Program Metrics: How Intel Measures Developer Satisfaction.
Many modern competitive battles have been won by attracting developers – whether it’s Apple in the case of mobile platforms, Amazon in...
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SlashData Team
Dec 14, 20161 min read
[Infographic] How to design a growth strategy for your app.
When devs create apps, it feels like that is the project. But once an app is built and released on an app store, it becomes obvious:...
SlashData Team
Oct 25, 20163 min read
Return on Developer Investment
My most fun job ever was as a C++ developer. Ok, I don’t have much grey hair yet, but I fondly remember the late 90s and the challenges...
SlashData Team
Sep 26, 20166 min read
Cloud PaaS tools: this is how developers use them.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools are an important part of the modern developer’s arsenal. They provide a complete environment for...
SlashData Team
Sep 12, 20161 min read
Mapping The Developer Universe: Cloud PaaS & IaaS platforms and tools
The Map of the Developer Universe charts developer usage of and satisfaction with leading platforms and tools. This is not just an...
SlashData Team
Sep 6, 20163 min read
Chatbots: From hype to “figuring it out”
Chatbots and conversational UI are among the most hyped technologies of 2016. Chatbots are computer programs that can maintain automated...
SlashData Team
Aug 16, 20161 min read
Getting users to pay for things remains the biggest challenge for the app developer
More than half of mobile developers are living in “app poverty”: making less than $500 a month from their apps. We’ve produced an...
SlashData Team
Aug 12, 20163 min read
Whatever happened to Operator Billing?
In 2003 Europe’s mobile operators launched Simpay, promising to let us buy flowers and concert tickets across Europe, with the price...
SlashData Team
Aug 5, 20164 min read
Android First is the New Normal
The mobile platform landscape was fairly stable for more than two years. Having both won the platform wars, Android and iOS seemed quite...
SlashData Team
Aug 4, 20163 min read
Why are mobile developers so obsessed with advertising?
Advertising is used as a revenue stream by 38% of mobile app developers, far higher than any other source, but the majority of developers...
SlashData Team
Jul 1, 20163 min read
What gets desktop developers out of bed in the morning?
Despite all the hype around the death of the PC and the enormous amount of media attention focused on mobile, cloud and IoT, the humble...
SlashData Team
Jun 23, 20162 min read
A proven model for targeting IoT developers
Not all developers are the same, and their needs vary wildly, so any attempt to effectively address them all with a single messaging and...
SlashData Team
Jun 21, 20163 min read
1000 skills: Amazon Alexa as a metaphor for the IoT developer community
But today, I want to talk not so much about Alexa’s merits as such, but use it as a metaphor for the IoT developer community. IoT...
SlashData Team
Jun 16, 20164 min read
Google’s Instant Apps is the power grab that ActiveX couldn’t make
At this year’s Google I/O conference the search giant announced Instant Apps – Android applications dynamically downloaded, installed,...
SlashData Team
Jun 2, 20166 min read
Developer Personas as a Revenue Growth Tool
Nike, Adidas and Under Armour have digitally opened up their fitness and athletics products. McCormick Foods and Campbells Soup have...
SlashData Team
May 24, 20161 min read
If there were 100 Developers in the world
[UPDATE: The survey is now closed -Enjoy the infographic] Have you ever asked yourselves what would the world be like if there were only...
SlashData Team
May 19, 20165 min read
Beyond the ‘chatbot’ – The messaging quadrant
These days everyone and their uncle is talking about chatbots as the next thing after apps. But ‘Chatbot’ is a rather poor name for...
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