May 2013
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The a Team
As a company, we believe that people do business with people and users need to know who they are behind the scene. We build a technology product for you and us but the world is way more than technology - we are people just like you.
To make your relationship with addappt a little more personal, here is a snapshot of the current team.
We have had the opportunity to know many of you at a personal...
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Celebrate the 50,000,000,000th download with...
Last week Apple announced that to celebrate the 50,000,000,000th download on its App Store, it would award a $10,000 app store gift card.
We are excited to announce our ‘Double App’ Countdown promotion - we will double that prize if the 50,000,000,000th downloaded app is addappt, available for free at appstore.com/addappt. addappt has been widely and very positively recognized by...
April 2013
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5 Quotes on Change
We are all about change:
The name of our company
Our core value
Our product adapts to the changes your friends make
So we hope to bring a lot about that here - change. Why one should? How one can, quotes and more.
Here are 5 quotes on change that we remember or find ourselves quoting on a weekly basis:
He not busy being born is busy dying - Bob Dylan
Be the Change you wish to see -...
March 2013
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addappt Open to All plus Group Features
We are thrilled to open up addappt to all and everyone ending our ‘by invitation’ only phase.
We are welcoming all with some very useful functionality that makes addappt far more functional that the stock iOS Contacts app:
Group Management - create new groups, rename them or delete any all from within addappt
Group Messaging - swipe left on any group to email, text or attach...
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Why addappt - How We Named our Company
The name is a very significant brand component of anything or anybody’s identity.
Parents spend countless hours trying to find a name for their children i.e. their product, with various considerations and make lists. Here are a few we used as parents:
We wanted our kids to have easy to pronounce names. Yes - I go by Ricky Bobby at coffee shops.
We wanted it to work internationally so it...
January 2013
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WatchIn case you missed it, addappt was on prime time TV on CNN International on 01.11.13 on Quest for Business with host Richard Quest talking to Samuel Burke. Watch it here:
December 2012
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addappt Nationwide in The Wall Street Journal
On 12.12.12 .. not to mention that we have 1T, 2As, 2Ds and 2Ps in our name!
We launched a week ago and now we cant stop telling people and I don’t think we will ever - it is an absolute honor for this tiny team to be reviewed in the Wall Street Journal in print yesterday by Walt Mossberg.
Here is his review where he quotes “After testing Addappt, I can say it does what it...
addappt Launch Press Coverage
We have had a launch beyond our imagination - its humbling!
Here is a snapshot of some of the press coverage we received:
addappt: The Social Address Book That Keeps You Connected
If my phone’s so smart, why is my address book so dumb?
addappt Debuts An Auto-Updating Mobile Address Book For iPhone
addappt is Bump-reimagined: Keep your address book current by having your friends...
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addappt Now - Orchestrate Change
Be the change you wish to see - Gandhi
We all created our first social network in our address books. It was information we penned down and when it changed, if and when we were informed, we erased and wrote down all over again.
Today, with technology, we continue to do the same – everything has changed and yet nothing has changed for the address book. Jorge and I decided to address that (pun...
October 2012
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The 20 Take-Off Checklist
believe
team
prototype
testing
feedback
prototyping
testing
pest control
availability
early addappters
new version release
feedback
new version release
feedback
stability
website
blog
Twitter
corporate email
QA
Final new version - testing, testing and testing in progress
