Bearded Pony

Bearded Pony on Ellen!

beardedpony — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:27:54 +0000

Make Fuzzy Tracks Party Pics

beardedpony — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:13:10 +0000

MotelAviv killed it at the Bearded Pony/Mixtape Marketing party.

Click to view slideshow.Thanks again to everyone for coming out on Tuesday… we’re hoping to finish the week strong at the Grackle Rock show today.

Mixtape Marketing and Bearded PoBearded Pony Apps Banner

TotalFratMove.com was a co-sponsor

Got our business cards ready to see you at SXSW…

beardedpony — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:29:29 +0000

Bearded Pony at SXSW (part II) – Austin Facial Hair Club

beardedpony — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:24:42 +0000

We have already released the details of “Make Fuzzy Tracks”, a party for drinking and talking and listening to music with our friends at Mixtape Marketing.

On Friday 18 March, Bearded Pony will co-hosting (with our friends at Austin Facial Hair Club) an all-day super-free music showcase at the Grackle on east 6th street. Details and RSVPs can be found at this Facebook Page. Lots of great bands playing including Eddie Spaghetti and Joan of Arc. We will be using this event to preview our newest jointly developed app creation. Without giving too much away, here’s the splash screen:

Later,
P.J. the Pony

Bearded Pony at SXSW 2011 – Make Fuzzy Tracks

beardedpony — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:07:43 +0000

Bearded Pony is proud to announce two showcases of music, beer, and the coolest and most attractive people in the Austin/Dallas metroplex. On Tuesday , we will be co-hosting the “Make Fuzzy Tracks” with our friends at Mixtape Marketing featuring special guests TotalFratMove.com. There will be free drinks of some sort and no cover, so come on out and give us a shout. Should be epic. Here are the details:

You’re welcome,
P.J. the Pony

Ever wonder what a phone full of Bearded Pony apps looks like??

beardedpony — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:41:18 +0000

Well wonder no more! Keep an eye out for this banner at SXSW because when you see it, you’ll know we’re buying some beer for you! Details to come!

New Rules from Apple on “Keywords”

beardedpony — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:24:52 +0000

Add this one to our list of reasons to get rejected by the iPhone app approval team. Here’s the whole sordid story.

In the early days of the app store, everything in your description of the app (5500 character limit) was indexed as part of the search, and you could change that at any time. Obviously, some people (including us) would abuse this fact and include things in the description that don’t really apply to the app, but are commonly searched in the app store. Our best example of this is the genius description that Fisher the Swisher wrote for iLogan (our X-Men inspired claw app that was ripped from the store by Marvel faster than you can say “Adamantium”).

Just think of all the people you could maul…. Here’s a short list:

….Amy Winehouse, Superman, Popeye, Bluto, Kermit the Frog, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush, Harry Potter, Star Trek Trekkies, the whole cast of “The View”, Perez Hilton, Wesley Snipes, Chuck Norris, Madonna, Alex Rodriguez, your wife, my wife, Ashton kutcher, Mel Gibson, … etc etc etc

And that’s why Fish makes the big bucks. The more questionable (and less hilarious) version of this was people saying “Great for people who like XXX,XXX” where they would just list the top 20 apps.

Apple quickly (and rightfully) locked this down, and instead of indexing the descriptions, they started to index only the title of the app and a set of keywords. Furthermore, they limited the keywords to 100 characters, and they are only available for update when you update the app. Apple keeps pretty tight control over those keywords, and you’ll get rejected for putting anything that is either unrelated or copyrighted in the keyword field.

The name of the app became even more important, and so we (and others) figured out that you could put your most important keywords in the title of the app. “Animoticons” became “Animoticons + Emoji | Animations for Animated MMS Messaging”.

Apparently, this loophole is now closed. Here’s a notification that we just received for our 4.0 based texting app formerly called “Quick Text | From Work to Sexy Fun | Automatic MMS”:

Thank you for submitting Quick Text to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Quick Text and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because your app name contains keywords. iTunes Connect now supports Keywords under Manage My Applications to allow developers to establish application search criteria. Please remove all keywords from your app name and enter them in the iTunes Connect Keywords field. Once you have done so, please resubmit your binary for review <http://itunesconnect.apple.com/>.

Best Regards,

App Review Team
iPhone Developer Program

I can’t say that I blame them.

P.J. the Pony

We Did It – Animoticons cracks the top 100!

beardedpony — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:00:53 +0000

Cross it off our iPhone bucket list! Bearded Pony is officially the proud owner of a top 100 app… you know what they say – 21st time’s a charm!

Top 20, here we come!

P.J. the Pony

28 Days Later…

beardedpony — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:50:52 +0000

As much as I love my iPad, the magical machine made me wonder how many other people would feel the same way….well that question has been answered – 1 Million! Apple has sold 1 Million iPads in 28 days – that’s way faster than the first iPhone (which I honestly did not expect). Maybe it’s the non ATT exclusive agreement or maybe its just a more developed market now…who knows but either way it’s kinda awesome.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_ipad

Please don’t kill Matt Parker and Trey Stone…

beardedpony — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:48:47 +0000

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2010/south-park-death-threats