After they hosted us for iPhoneDevCamp 3, I was featured last year for this Yahoo! Developer Spotlight article. We cover the topics of Twitter, iOSDevCamp, DollarApp, and 140 Characters.

My key piece of advice is this:

“The simpler you make your idea, the easier it is… to understand the market and get it out there”.

See the full BBC article here. On mobile? Watch a brief excerpt on YouTube.

Big Words is now shipping with an update, bringing the critically acclaimed communication tool to the iPad’s much larger display and keyboard.

Features three gestures:

• Swipe for more pages
• Rotate
• Double-tap to Edit

In addition, the following features:

• Edit on launch
• Remembers last edit
• Erase-all button
• White-on-black display
• Reset pages

This app is great for grabbing attention, passing messages, and making a statement!

The creative people at the Yahoo! Developer Network filmed this at my home office in San Francisco.

Thanks to Tom for his engaging questions, and Havi for the opportunity.

Twitter Co-creator Dom Sagolla covers all the basics of great short- form writing, including the importance of communicating with simplicity, honesty, and humor.

This is the first writing guide specifically dedicated to communicating with the succinctness and clarity that the Internet age requires.

“A code of honor for the new way of doing business.”
-@24kLogos

• The equivalent of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for today’s social media & marketing messages
• Inspiring quotations from comedy to poetry from some of the best writers
• The authoritative approach to Twitter, written by its creators to include other social networks like pure text messaging

“The book is awesome, but the app is sexy.”
-@atebits

140 Characters is a much-needed guide to the kind of communication that can make or break a reputation online.

“This is game-changing.”
-@schwa

Features:

1. Built-in Web browser, with Bookmark



2. Regular updates to the text
3. Integrated Twitter streams of all 140 “characters” to follow



4. Additional Video and Photo content

The text is also supports Copy/Paste throughout.

Even if you have the Kindle edition, this condensed and updated text will provide the freshest reading experience. Tune in to the @bookapp Twitter account for the latest developments.

Keywords: Twitter, Facebook, social, networking, writing, book, links, lead, value, master, evolve, accelerate.

Now Available in the iTunes App Store.

As co-founder of iPhone Developer’s Camp, I maintain contact with developer communities all over the world. One very passionate group has formed in the Netherlands, and has invited me to sponsor, organize, and speak during two great events. The first is a daylong hackathon:

iPhoneDevCamp Amsterdam
November 25th, 2009
11am-4pm (with lunch break)
Westergasfabriek
Attendance Max: 200 people
Also sponsored by One More Thing and PayPal

The second is a two-day conference:

iCE Amsterdam
November 26-27, 2009
Westergasfabriek
Session entitled “The Dollar App” on the 26th
Session entitled “Market Your App Through Social Media” on the 27th

One feature of these events is that we’ll have my book 140 Characters on site for purchase and I’ll be signing them throughout the week. In addition, we are reaching out to the larger iPhoneDevCamp Netherlands community with a special offer:

All students and iPhoneDevCamp.nl attendees who join us at iPhoneDevCamp Amsterdam on the 25th may attend iCE Amsterdam for 75.00€, incl. VAT (a discount of 470.00€). In addition, all qualifying registrants will receive a free copy of 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form with their purchase. Simply comment here or email the organizers to identify yourself.

I’m very excited to visit Amsterdam for the first time with my wife Meredith, and Hypertext Edition coders Jonathan Wight & Mike Lee, among other excellent presenters. We do hope to broadcast a portion of the proceedings so stay tuned for more information as the date approaches.

It was a thrill to present Big Words at the first ever App Store Showcase at the Apple Store in Downtown San Francisco. I was in august company, where we presented in this order:

1. Mobile Music Messenger
2. Big Words
3. MobiQpons
4. Jurassic 3d Rollercoaster Rush
5. Dropbox
6. Panelfy
7. Surf Report
8. Jaadu VNC
9. Air Guitar
10. Navigon

Every one of these Apps is worth your download!

Thanks to Seth Socolow who organized this, and everyone who joined us—it was a blast and we hope to do it again soon.

I no longer work at Adobe, but have gone full time with DollarApp and my latest project 140 Characters. Adobe has recently relaunched the site, allowing me to embed this well-produced video here.

Thanks to everyone at Adobe for supporting iPhoneDevCamp and my early efforts with iPhone.

Imagine a new type of book: @BookApp.

We are interested in working with any iPhone Developer to offer 140 Characters as an In-App Purchase within their App. Just email dom@dollarapp.com.

I’d like to thank our agent, Erin Malone, for making this arrangement possible.

Thanks to you if we met at WWDC or elsewhere and you offered your encouragement!

‘Baby Shaker’ iPhone Game Sparks Outrage (see 0:36 to 1:08):

Dom: “So this is an application designed for President Obama when he was running for office…”

[voiceover] Independent developer Dom Sagolla helped build the iPhone App for the Obama campaign, and says ‘Baby Shaker’ needed to be pulled.

Dom: “I wasn’t too impressed, and the concept itself is a little bit distasteful actually. I have a toddler, so I wouldn’t use that app.

There’s a certain expectation with the iPhone platform. It’s an expectation of quality, it’s an expectation of a certain experience. We as developers try to trust Apple to help us make the right decisions.”

We’re grateful to AP Video Journalist Haven Daley for his responsible reporting.