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Virgin Group app that displays all of the firsts with a friend using the new functions of FB's Timeline API. Part of a "social marathon" this Wednesday giving away prizes to fans. 

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Kotaku has obtained an image of what it claims is the first "Made For iPhone" controller. Purportedly made by Logitech, the controller looks similar to the guidance images Apple released when it detailed the new iOS 7 controller API. It features what appears to be a circular D-pad, four action buttons, and a pause key. The guidance images also called for either two or four shoulder buttons to be included, but it's difficult to see from Kotaku's blurry image if the controller has any shoulder buttons at all, let alone how many.

"But advertisers have loads of their own offline data from existing customers that they have not been able to use to target search ads. Conversions API allows those advertisers to upload phone numbers and in-store purchase data and use that information to target search ads through DoubleClick, Google's search ad system. Google's announcement was thin on details. It says advertisers can now "upload new conversions to account for in-store transactions, call-tracking, or other offline activities, or edit existing conversions to account for discounts, returns, credit, or fraud.""

Users "plant" a song, a book, a movie, a venue, a famous person, you name it, along with an associated message for others to enjoy. CircleMe has also pre-populated the database with close to 1 million items to "like", and another 11 million to access via API connections with other networks. They just want you to put all these things on a map.

"News and magazine apps are a segment where the momentum is likely to shift towards the Web within the next two to three years," noted senior analyst Aapo Markkanen. "Since news and media content already account for a large share of smartphone usage and are likely to play an even bigger role in later adopters' usage, changes in this segment alone will make subscribers on average download fewer native apps." The next wave of smartphone owners in mature markets like the U.S., Western Europe and Asia will download fewer apps than the first one-third of mobile consumers who bought smartphones, according to the report on mobile app storefronts. At the same time, ABI expects that in the games and utilities categories, the mobile Web will probably never catch up with native apps, due to the difficulty in matching the user experience. ABI's outlook on the future of apps appears at odds with a separate report released Tuesday by Strategy Analytics, which maintains that the emergence of HTML5 won't put much of a dent in the app economy. Instead, it predicts the Web programming language will lead to the spread of hybrid apps that combine HTML5 with native APIs (application programming interface) to harness the best of native and open standards.

Much Music, along with Degrassi production firm Epitome Pictures, worked with Badgeville to develop the MuchCloser features. Swierszcz stressed the appeal of Badgeville's approach, which he said focuses on rewards psychology. "If you don't do this properly, cultivate your users, and bring people back after they've left for three weeks...it's useless," he said. And, because Badgeville works like a plugin, MuchCloser users stay on the site. "All rewards happen on our platform so we can monetize them and keep them in our world. We want people coming to our site engaging with Degrassi, not someone else's." The API approach also enables Much Music to incorporate data it has on user interactions on other platforms like Twitter, to get a more holistic view.

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