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I am headed to APPNation III

I will be in San Francisco next week for APPNation III. This third APPNation Conference will be held November 30 through December 1, 2011 at The Concourse Exhibition Center which is part of the San Francisco Design Center, located at 635 8th Street, San Francisco, CA. I attended APPNation last April and found it to be quite valuable since we are just beginning to get involved in the mobile application market.

AppNation Conference is a B2B trade show, specializing in the mobile application market. When I attended last April, the thing that impressed me the most was the non-stop action. A quick look at the agenda for this upcoming event shows that we are in for more of the same. From the time the show starts at 9:00 AM until it ends, around 6:00 PM, there are keynotes, seminars, workshops and panels. These cover a wide range of topics including the monetization of mobile applications, the effect of HTML5 in the application marketplace, social networks, gaming and more. The challenge at the last APPNation Conference was trying to decide which workshop or seminar to attend. It is apparent that this will be the challenge for APPNation III as well. Read more…

It is National Doughnut Day

A couple of months ago I was going through Facebook and noticed the photo of what I would call a designer doughnut. Since I was only readily familiar with one establishment that sold “designer doughnuts,” I asked if my friend had ever visited Psycho Donuts. It was not an unreasonable question since they are located in Northern California as is he. It was not long before someone else joined the discussion and informed me that if I wanted a great doughnut, I had to visit Stan’s Donuts in Santa Clara. Eventually, my friend returned to the discussion and told me that the doughnut in question was a Dynamo Maple Sugar and Bacon doughnut. Since I had plans to visit San Francisco for a trade show, I decided that I would have to conduct an unbiased review of the three doughnut shops in question. These shops were Dynamo Donuts in San Francisco, Stan’s Donuts in Santa Clara and Psycho Donuts in San Jose, CA. Since today is National Doughnut Day, I figured it was time to put this review up.

My initial intent was to go to the doughnut shops and let the employees choose two donuts that they thought were best. My girlfriend, Tanya, said she did not want the shop to pick her doughnut. Since I knew there was no way I could eat more than three donuts in a day, I decided that I would let the doughnut shop pick one and Tanya could pick one. We would then split the donuts and I would make review the doughnut shop based on these choices. It seemed like a pretty unbiased way to do this review. As we were leaving San Francisco I picked a route that would take us from San Francisco, to Santa Clara and end in San Jose. Read more…

GotBaddog to attend APPNation Conference

Next week, April 27 and 28, 2011, APPNation Conference SF will be held at the Moscone Center South in San Francisco, CA. This two day mobile marketing event looks to be jam packed with seminars, demonstrations and workshops. My main problem with attending this event is trying to decide which seminars I want to attend over the others. There are 21 seminars on the 27th and another 16 on the 28th. That does not even include the keynote, sessions and workshops that take place before lunch.

A look at the scheduled speakers includes people from Google Mobile, Appstore for Android, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eBay and many more. Topics include mobile application marketing strategies, app advertising, monetization strategies and much more. I think it is safe to say that if you are using mobile applications to drive brand awareness, or developing them for selling at your own mobile market, this is an event worth attending. Luckily, we just launched our first mobile application today, a wallpaper rotator, so the timing of this event could not be much better.

Right now, they have discounted rates for both the expo and full conference pass, so if you are planning on going, I would suggest ordering your tickets now. For more information about this upcoming mobile marketing event, please visit APPNationConference.com. I hope to see you there.