Best App Ever Podcast

The Best App Ever podcast episode. Features interviews with: Jeff Scott, creator of the Best App Ever Awards and founder of 148Apps; and people-behind-the-nominees segments with Garret Murray, creator of the aptly named Ego app; and Yuanzhen Li and Michael Parker creators of the TrueHDR photography app.

For easy scanning of the interview, here’s what was covered and when:

Part 1 – Jeff Scott, Founder/148 Apps

1:00 Contest origin story
1:30 “Honor the best, not the best selling”
2:00 Approximately 3,000 apps nominated
2:15 27,000 votes to nominate
2:30 110,000 votes for nominees
3:00 “Thousands” of click/day from the contest to the App Store
3:30 Jeff’s favorite apps: Tweetie 2, Instapaper Pro
4:30 300-400 new games/day
5:00 Apps for kids, the GiggleApps site

Part 2 – Garrett Murray, The “Ego” App

8:00 Ego, the App
10:30 XML parsing
12:30 Looks like UITableView, is actually all custom views
16:00 Developing like you’re making a web app
18:00 “Extremely niche application”
19:00 TUAW, Daring Fireball exposure
22:00 “Built in press engine” — whenever he adds another service to the app it’s covered by that service
23:00 Total users: 10,000

Part 3 – Yuanzhen Li and Michael parker, TrueHDR

23:00 High Dynamic Range photography from the iPhone
24:30 No developer-accesible way to set exposure; their clever solution: 3GS auto-focus really sets exposure to a region
25:45 Aligning two images
30:00 Made it into the Top-100 paid apps

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