March 2010
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New iPhone application: SvD Reseguider!
Yesterday, our third iPhone application hit the App Store. It’s another application we’ve developed for Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s largest daily newspapers.
Presenting, SvD Reseguider!
The application at the moment contains 18 of SvD’s popular travel guides in a handy mobile format. Some of the features:
18 of SvD’s travel guides easy accessible from...
December 2009
2 posts
Way to go Playtones!
Yesterday, something great happened. The Playtones, won the final on Dansbandskampen on Swedish TV. They can now brag with the title “The best dance band in Sweden”.
So, what’s that got to do with Appcorn, you might ask… Well, amongst the five artists in The Playtones, we find our very own Mattias “Masse” Schertell. Masse has been our teacher and tutor during...
Merry Christmas!
Yup, it’s already that time of the year again. Time flies by in Karlshamn, and we at Appcorn are now officially on a small christmas break. Looking back on 2009, we can clearly state that running your own company is both hard and challenging but in the same time exciting and very rewarding. It feels like there’s nothing that the four of us (and our intern David!) would rather do at...
November 2009
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24 hour business camp
Even though we officially did not attend to last weeks 24 hour business camp, we had quite a precense. First off, one of our upcoming projects was revealed as part of a presentation. It’s an idea we’re working on together with Mobilab, the mobile development team run by the swedish media companies TV4 and Expressen. We don’t have alot of information to reveal for you at the...
October 2009
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Yay! Open source!
Today we’re taking some baby steps towards one of the goals of our company. We’re releasing some of the source code we use to make our applications open source for the world to use, free of charge, licensed under the MIT license.
The two iPhone-classes we’re releasing are not very complex nor extremely fancy, but they mark the start of something much larger. We’ve learned...
September 2009
2 posts
Another application for the iPhone: SvD Quiz!
Today we received news that our second iPhone application just went online on the iPhone App Store! We’re happy to present to you, SvD Quiz!
The application is an iPhone version of SvD.se’s web quizes that we’ve been working on together. Some features:
Choose from the 100 quizes delivered with the application, new quizes can be downloaded from the application as they are...
Marketing plans and camping
The days passes fast here at the Appcorn office. We’ve been working hard on our latest iPhone release, marketing plans for our company and we have visited Sweden Social Web Camp.
Appcorn at SSWC 09 (Photo: frebro)
Sweden Social Web Camp was an exciting weekend on the island Tjärö, just a couple of minutes from our office in Karlshamn. We met lots of new people, got new ideas, and even a...
August 2009
3 posts
Appcorn in the media
It’s only wednesday, but boy, isn’t this week just something! This monday both BLT and Sydöstran, two regional newspapers, interviewed us regarding our company and the Blocket iPhone application. To our surprise, we made the front page (or, to be more precise, the swedish phenomenon löpsedeln) on both newspapers! You can read the articles here and here.
Martin with the two newspapers
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Blocket For iPhone and It's Only the Beginning...
Yesterday, our first creation went live on Apple’s App Store. It’s the project we’ve been working on together with Blocket.se for a while now. The Blocket application is a fully featured iPhone client for the very popular Swedish classified advertising site www.blocket.se. It includes features such as:
A solid search function with possibilities to specify the search parameters...
Appcorn goes camping!
The swedish blog and podcast site What’s Next is bringing sweden one of this years most interesting events. We’re talking of course about Sweden Social Web Camp 2009. All of us at Appcorn were lucky and got hold of four of the last tickets to the event.
We’re also going to code an iPhone application for the event that we will hand out via Ad-Hoc distribution at the event. More...