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Jon Jordan
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About A Pocket Gamer co-founder, Jon is Contributing Editor at PG.biz which means he acts like a slightly confused uncle who's forgotten where he's left his glasses. As well as letters and cameras, he likes imaginary numbers and legumes.
Articles by Jon Jordan
Volkswagen Touareg Challenge advergame initiates 3,500 test drives
One million downloads generating business for VW
Appular and Brainium highlight the promotional possibilities of HTML5 with web version of Hand of Greed
Rich app discovery in your browser
Consultant John Strand puts iPhone in its global context: as big as Poland
Beautiful phone but questions wider impact for operators
Samsung Apps to roll out to another 80 countries and 100 operators
Riding the Wave
Millennial Media brings parity to its Android and iPhone advertising SDKs
Platform-agnostic position driving growth
With its HTML5 demo in Harbor Master HD, AdMob goes head-to-head with iAd
Also releases iPad SDK
Indiagames rebrands itself as UTV Indiagames
Slots in with majority shareholder
Samsung now expects to ship 15 million bada phones in 2010
Up to 50 million in 2011
Ideaworks Labs' Johnstone on getting developers onto Samsung Apps fast
First mover advantage with Airplay
Samsung ensures bada hits the ground running with Ideaworks partnership
Airplay middleware to support bada and Samsung Apps
Gameprom's Pogosov on the #1 success of its pinball games on iPhone and iPad
And where the company's going next
Pocket Gamer's throwing a WWDC 2010 party
Get with the in crowd
IUGO's moving into mobile social gaming space
Big project on the go
New discovery channel provided by Dreamsky's iGameDock carousel
Get two weeks exposure for free
International launch boosts iPad sales to over 2 million
That's more than 33,333 per day
Backflip's Farrior on generating 1.75 million daily ad impressions from one free game
Strike Knight's been downloaded 1.5m times in 10 days
Igor Pusenjak jumps into Fast Company's Most Creative People event
The Doodler strides forth
Facebook releases official Android SDK
Result of an intern project
Press Start Studios' Rapin on bringing Twin Blades to bada and Windows Phone 7
I'd say iPhone's about to face real competition
2XL Rick Baltman's on the benefits of Real Rewards for motivating players and giving game longevity
Boosted 2XL ATV Offroad Lite to 750,000 downloads
Ubisoft launches first iPad game Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms
Free to play, cross platform MMOG
Glu Mobile rumoured to be shutting its UK studio
Further management of cost structure
Gameloft supports iPad's international launch with 7 titles
Added to existing 15 catalogue
Ustwo shows graphically how FreeAppADay boosted MouthOff sales
How free makes money
Appy's O'Connor: iPad is a weekend market that's less price sensitive and less fluid than iPhone
Hard to manipulate, you have to build word of mouth
Apple's share price drops $1.17 but it's worth more than Microsoft for the first time
Redmond drops even more
Doodle Jump creator Igor Pusenjak is Fast Company's 14th most creative person of 2010
All thanks to a little green sketch
Exient signs co-marketing deal with Pukka Pies for X2 Football 2010
Smells good
One reason Android 2.2 is fast - new Just In Time compiler for Dalvik virtual machine
Turbocharger tweaked under the hood
Com2uS bringing Lemon's $4.5 million iPhone MMORPG Fantasia to the West
Korean developer is levelling up
Microsoft tweaks mobile and games divisions as J Allard and Robbie Bach leave
Mobile boss Andy Lees and Don Mattrick step up
Doodle Jump, Bloons and Plants vs Zombies nominated for game Meffy
Five of the best
Apple closes in on Microsoft's status as the second biggest US company by market capitalisation
More MSFT drop than AAPL rise
App Store sneaky marketing 101: Price manipulation
How to get visibility on the top grossing chart
Bada games now live on Samsung Apps with Com2uS and Gameloft leading the charge
Homerun Battle 3D and Real Football kick things off
Google adds user bug reporting to Android 2.2
Get direct feedback
Candycane's Michael Bevin on how giving away Fling! resulted in 600,000 sales
Plus 4.2 million downloads of the Lite version
FreeAppADay's Bayen on adding social features, launching an app, and why free is a sustainable model
80% of FAAD developers generate more income
Google's $750 million acquisition of AdMob approved
Transaction not likely to harm competition
Bulkypix goes big for iPad with 11 games primed
Includes MMOG Yslandia
MySpace giving away 1 million ad impressions for best Scoreloop integrations
Get social, get happy
T-Mobile USA drops developer program, replaced with aggregator selection
No differential advantage to be gained
MillionDollarAppSite discovery portal gains more games
Appy to see you
Dynamo Games' McNicoll on expansion, going social, and embracing Android and iPad
Champ Manager studio gains a promotion
How ThumbFire took Creamy Ice from zero to one million downloads in 3 days
The power of free (and FAAD) underlined again
Square Enix sees FY11 mobile content sales drop 7% to $89 million
But operating income up 8% to $40 million
NimbleBit's Ian Marsh on breaking the four million download app barrier
Making money from free games with IAP
Two Tribes sells 150,000 copies of Toki Tori on iPhone
Celebrates with giveaway and new features
Scoreloop's Gumpinger on the power of cross platform and why Android is a lovely playing field
People totally underestimate it