We’ve been busy porting the PointAbout Thin-Client Springboard to our 2nd device, the BlackBerry. We’re almost done with it, and we already have several clients lined up who want to have us make them location-aware on the BlackBerry. We’ll definitely have it out within 2 weeks but it might be even sooner. If you have a BlackBerry and would like to be a beta tester, we’d love to hear from you at Feedback@PointAbout.com
Archive for October 21, 2008
PointAbout Is Now LIVE On The Apple App Store!
It’s a big day here at PointAbout, as we were just approved through Apple’s Application Store (click here to go to the application – this will open iTunes on your computer). Now anybody can download PointAbout to their iPhones.
We’ve had over 600 iPhone users download the application in the first 12 hours with no marketing efforts! (yet 
) Here are some other stats that are knocking our socks off:
- Over 11,000 page views in the PointAbout “thin-client” native app in first 12 hours
- An average 12.82 page views per visit
- A bounce rate of just 5.79%
- Average time on the PointAbout thin client of over four minutes
- The top applications are “cheapest gas near you” and “weather in my area”
Here are some of the reviews we’ve been getting:
“The first benefit I see is that this FREE application could replace a half dozen lesser apps I have on the iPhone which would give us more room and less clutter on our Springboards.
App store link http://appshopper.com/link/pointabout-let-your-favorite-websites-find-you
More info http://appshopper.com/navigation/pointabout-let-your-favorite-websites-find-you
Study the app store images and read the reviews to see if you agree with me that this application could simplify your life and iPhone. Couldn’t you get rid of apps like Where! and similar ones like gas buddy, Starbucks etc? Did you notice you can expand this application for new services and web sites?”
And here are some reviews from the iTunes store:
Go ahead and download PointAbout yourself and tell us what you think!
Daniel Odio speaks at Deloitte Tech Venture Center
Listen to a complete audio transcript of the event here. Note – the voice recorder was set to pause during silence so some parts were cut out (so sorry!).
Today Daniel Odio was on Deloitte’s Tech Venture Center panel on mobile marketing, along with Jon Jackson of Mobile Posse, Michael Avon of Columbia Capital, and Kevin Bertram of Distributive Networks. The panel was kindly hosted by Carl Grant of Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP in lieu of Jason Siegel of Qorvis whose wife went into labor the night before!
Thanks to Ellen Mundell of Deloitte for setting this great panel up.
