AppChatter Podcast Ep. 3 Released, Now in iTunes!

AppChatter has released our third episode of the podcast! In this episode Erik, Lou and Jeff discuss the removal of the sex apps from the iTunes App Store, Slingplayer goes 3G and Jeff (a former Apple employee) joins the podcast. The podcast is also now available from iTunes for easy download from your i-gadget.

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Episode 3
Episode 2
Episode 1

AppChatter Podcast Episode 2 (Released 2/15)

This week on the AppChatter Podcast - Episode 2: Google gives us Buzz, Shape Services gives us 80% off of IM+, and PopCap Games is about to give us Plants vs. Zombies! Also, Erik reviews Riddim Ribbon (featuring the Black Eyed Peas) and Rhythm Racer, and Lou reviews Gorilla Mobile and the NBC Olympics app.

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Episode 3
Episode 2
Episode 1

AppChatter Podcast is Here!

It’s been a while in the making but it’s now here, the AppChatter.com official podcast! Our inaugural episode discusses current events in the iTunes app store, such as in app purchases and offers up some excellent suggestions for halloween apps.

AppChatter.com Podcast Episode 1

For suggestions or inquiries, email us at podcast@appchatter.com

Help Wanted. Write for AppChatter.com!

How would you like access to some of the latest iPhone apps? Would you like to author reviews and related news articles that are featured on a well-known and trusted iPhone app review site? AppChatter.com is looking for talented app reviewers and editors that like to write about apps, iPhone and iPod Touch news and anything else related to the space, to join our team.

Interested persons would need to write a story or review a few times a week. Those interested in writing reviews must have access to the U.S. iTunes Store in order to redeem app codes or otherwise purchase apps on their own. Those interested in writing news articles would need to follow best blogging practices in news writing.

What’s in it for you? Free apps, of course! as many as 3 per week - or more! Also, did I mention that you will be authoring reviews and news for a well-known and trusted iPhone app site? How’s that for bragging rights?! Yeah, I thought so. So go ahead and email me: rob [at] appchatter.com and tell me a little bit about yourself.

Requirements:

• Interested persons must have an iPhone[3G or 3GS] or iPod Touch [2nd or 3rd Gen].
• You must have good technical writing skills and read and write excellent English.
• Must be easily contacted by email and respond to emails in a timely manner.
• Must have access to the U.S. iTunes App Store in order to redeem app codes.
• Must be willing to pre-purchase apps to be reviewed, pending approval only (reimbursements available).
• Must be able to deliver reviews or news articles on or before committed dates.
• Must guarantee and warrant the originality and uniqueness of the articles submitted to AppChatter.com.

If you have any questions, please email me: rob [at] appchatter.com

AppChatter.com is now publishing to the Amazon Kindle

Looking for trusted iPhone app reviews but can’t put down that Kindle? You’re in luck… Amazon recently openned up blog publishing on the Kindle to pretty much anyone with a blog.  Since we’re always looking for ways to increase our readership we figured we’d give if a try, why not right?  The big question now is whether anyone will actually sign up and read us via their Kindle.  Since we publish primarily iPhone app reviews it will be interesting to see if we can get any Kindle readers following us.

If you have a Kindle, go ahead and sign us up!  Remember that blog subscriptions are free for the first 14 days during the trial period.

AppChatter.com on Kindle is $1.99 per month (we’re worth it!) via Amazon.com and Kindle.

Like app reviews? How about writing them?

How would you like access to some of the latest iPhone apps? Would you like to author reviews that are featured on a well-known and trusted iPhone app review site?  AppChatter.com is looking for talented app reviewers to join us in writing top-quality app reviews.

Interested persons must be willing to commit to no less than three reviews per week and must write reviews in an editorial style. Reviewers must have access to the U.S. iTunes Store in order to redeem app codes or otherwise purchase apps on their own.  While we would love to be able to pay you for these reviews, the truth of the matter is that this site makes absolutely no money.  However, reviewers will be reimbursed for the apps reviewed or will receive app codes to download apps for free from iTunes.

What’s in it for you? Free apps, of course! as many as 3 per week - or more!  Also, did I mention that you will be authoring reviews for a well-known and trusted iPhone app site.  How’s that for bragging rights?! Yeah, I thought so.  So go ahead and email me: rob [at] appchatter.com and tell me a little bit about yourself.  Oh - and please send a sample review along with your ‘application.’ Thanks!

Requirements:

• Interested persons must have an iPhone or iPod Touch [2nd Gen].
• You must have good technical writing skills and read and write excellent English.
• Must be easily contacted by email and respond to emails in a timely manner.
• Must have access to the U.S. iTunes App Store in order to redeem app codes.
• Must be willing to pre-purchase apps to be reviewed, pending approval only (reimbursements available).
• Must be able to deliver reviews on or before committed dates.
• Must guarantee and warrant the originality and uniqueness of the reviews submitted to AppChatter.com.
• Must be willing to reassign copyright ownership of any reviews to AppChatter.com.

iPhoneCommunity rebrands as AppChatter.com

As if there are not enough app-something-dot-com websites out there already, we had to go and add another to the mix. Well, when your focus is app reviews and news and Apple doesn’t like you using “iPhone” in the URL and every-other-dot-com is already taken, we decided to join the rest of the club and go AppChatter. Think of it like a site that chats a lot about apps, which is what we do.. discuss apps that is. So, starting on Monday, March 16th iPhoneCommunity.org will rebrand as AppChatter.com (hey, it’s a dot-com this time!).

As you can tell, the new logo is already in place - so the change will be small. Anyone already linking to iPhoneCommunity.org is asked to update their links to the new domain: appchatter.com. However, those that still link to iphonecommunity.org will get redirected to the new domain. Relinking to the new domain is more for our benefit (link juice, anyone?) that it is for yours, and in this tight competition that app reviews is we need all the link love we can get!

Since there’s only a couple of us that work on the site directly, please let me know if you find any issues.

Free iPhone App Giveaway via Twitter!

Our second ever Free iPhone App Giveaway is going.  To win an app code is easy… just sign up to our Twitter tweets and watch for when they are posted.  It’s that easy.  We like to keep it simple around here and this is about as simple as it can get… We’ll start tweeting app codes any day now and we have quite a few to burn through.  App code tweets could come during any time of the day or night or on any day (just to keep it interesting!).  Good luck! and if you haven’t already, follow us on Twitter!

Older Contest (discontinued):

Our first ever Free iPhone App Giveaway is now underway!  So, here’s the deal:  Several excellent iPhone app developers have partnered with AppChatter.com to sponsor these contests.  Apps include: Kitty Kannon, Infinite SMS, Blox, CompareMe and more (reviews are still pending).

To enter into the random drawing you must do one (or more) of 4 things:

1. Leave a comment on any review… review only comments count.
2. Start a thread or comment on an existing thread in the forums (yeah, they needs some help!).
3. Subscribe to our twitter tweets.
4. Subscribe to our email list.

Comments must also be relevent to the thread (highly subjective, we know), so a comment like “wow” doesn’t qualify and similarly, new thread topics should be discussable topics relevant to our website theme (so, please don’t ask about the weather on the apps forum!!).  You can comment on reviews / threads in the forum as much as you want and each comment/post will count as an entry for that days drawing, however twitter and email signups will count once each but will be eligible to win each day we run the contest (your best value ;).

That’s pretty much it.  We have about 15-20 app codes to giveaway in our first round which we will do at a rate of two app codes per day. Winners will be notified via email (so yeah, your real email address would be important when commenting or registering), or a direct message via twitter (if you chose to signup to twitter).

Come back often to keep entering into the contests and increase your chances of winning one of these very cool apps.

Contest Rules:

1. App codes are for the US App Store only, so for US Residents Only.
2. If you don’t like the app code you win you can consider making a friend by giving it away to someone else. (We’d like to discourage app code exchanges)
3. Abuse and Spam will not be tolerated in any way shape or form.  So, you may comment ONCE per review.  However you may post multiple times per forum thread, so long as it does not appear that you are spamming it.
4. Determining if you are spamming the forums or reviews is at our sole discretion, so be nice.
5. Winners will be notified by email, so a valid email is required unless the winner is via twitter, in which case the winner will be notified by @user on twitter.
6. If you get an app code to an app you already have or to one you don’t want, make a friend and give it to someone else!
7. Signing up for twitter means getting our tweets, which is whenever we post something to the site (about twice per day).
8. Signing up for email means getting our updates via email.  This is done via feedburner and goes out once per day.  You may also see the occasional site update or newsletter, but so far we’ve never done any of these so don’t count on them any time soon.
9. Contest is over when we run out of app codes.
10. Void where prohibited.  Although, not sure where this would apply but you see this on every contest rules, so we thought it would be fitting here too.
11. Do not email us asking for an app code… you will not get one.  You must follow the above rules and enter the same as everyone else.

iPhoneCommunity Gets a New Look!

We’ve been busy around here at iPhone Community lately.  As you can see our awesome new design is now up and running. Hopefully this new makeover will help to solidify our position in the app review and promotion space as we strive and work to be an authority website for quality reviews to help app consumers in their buying decisions and  for app developers in their need for exposure.

This is our commitment to continue providing high-quality app reviews that our readers have come to expect from us.  We work hard in this space and dedicate a lot of time to ensure our reviews are of the highest quality and so we felt that our site design had to also reflect this dedication.  We hope you as a reader, and a developer, continue to come back to visit us many more times.

Tell us what you think about the redesign, please post feedback in the comments…

Rob