Category: Blog
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Gowalla 4 – What’s the Story?
Back on November 18, 2010, Gowalla made a HUGE announcement about partnering with Disney. Up until this time, I had not really taken the social location check-in phenomena very seriously. I figured this was a great time to jump in and learn what it was all about, and if it was something I might find…
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Touring Plans Updates Android Lines App
Touring Plans has released an update for the Android version of their Lines app. They’ve added navigation buttons in this version, to allow quick access to different sections of the app! If you are and Android user and don’t have the app, go check it out in the Android Market!
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Mom’s on the Go, are Going Mobile
Disney Interactive Media Group have released some new research, which shows that Mom’s are increasing their usage of mobile and tablet devices! I don’t know if this should necessarily surprise anyone. it is getting harder and harder to even buy a phone that isn’t a “smartphone”. Once you have a smartphone, you easily get used…
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Instagram and Foursquare get iPhone App Updates
As InstaParks.com has shown us, quite a few Disney Park travelers use Instagram to document their magical experiences and adventures. Instagram has released version 2.0 of their popular iPhone app ([itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252?mt=8&uo=4″ title=”Burbn_Inc-Instagram”]). This update makes major changes to the way you take photos! Instagram has improved the speed of the app, added more filters,…
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Android Lines Update Reverted
TouringPlans.com is reporting that people may have seen problems with the update to the Android version of their Lines app. If you downloaded the version with the quick tab navigation, we highly recommend that you delete this app and download the version of the application currently in the marketplace. I would imagine there are a…
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Disney’s Anne Sweeney thinks Steve Jobs is a Pirate? Aaarrr!
Reuters has an interesting article about Anne Sweeney’s interaction with Steve Jobs, when they wanted to demo iTunes and a video iPod before they were launched! Apparently Steve Jobs showed up with an episode of ‘Lost’, on the iPod, and showed it to Anne. She was particularly concerned about how high quality the digital copy…
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Club Penguin Comes to the iPhone and iPad
Today there has been a lot of buzz about Disney releasing a Club Penguin app called Puffle Launch! The current word is that the iPhone/iPad app is very similar to the Puffle Launch on their website. Considering the many acquisitions that Disney has made in the mobile and social media areas, it should be easy…
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Trying to finance a project? Make an iPhone app!?
A lot of people have turned to iPhone apps to make some amazing amounts of money by getting in to new markets like when you trade fx at vtmarket.com. Certainly there are crazy examples, such as Angry Birds. The barrier to entry is quite low, and lots of people have been some measure of successful.…
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Disney Instagram Aggregation
Many Disney fans and travelers have begun using the Instagram app to share photos on Twitter, from their iPhone. So many of us follow our favorite Disney Twitter accounts, to get a glimpse of other people’s adventures. As Instagram illustrates, people love to see pictures of the magic others are experiencing. What if you could…
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Mobile Magic now FREE and Finally Coming to the iPhone!
This week, Disney Parks announced that they would now allow people to download Mobile Magic for free. Disney had originally announced the release of Mobile Magic in November of 2009, at a price of $9.99 and only available to Verizon Wireless customers. Mobile Magic is the only official source of attraction wait times for the…