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Performance Issues Being Addressed

arn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:26:54 +0000

We’re aware that the site has been rather sluggish recently. We’re working to address these issues so it should return to must faster performance levels soon.

Version Updates and Average Ratings

arn — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:59:04 +0000

You might notice that some apps are showing updates today that have long been updated. Due to a previous bug, some updates were never picked up. We’ve revamped our code, so this shouldn’t happen again in the future. Average ratings are also coming back, and many are already back. In the next 24 hours or so, we expect them all to be back.

We have more changes coming as well.

App Updates On Hold Temporarily

arn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:45:19 +0000

Apple’s iTunes Stores seems to have had some problems overnight, so we’ve paused our updates for the time being. Don’t worry. We’ll be back up as soon as the iTunes Store is back to normal.

Site Update! New User Membership Features

chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:06 +0000

We’ve just updated AppShopper.com and added user accounts for personal App tracking!

Immediately obvious should be the two new tabs: “My Apps” and “Wish List.” Users must register and log in, to add Apps to these personal lists.

With Apps in your personal “My Apps” and “Wish List” lists, you can take advantage of:

email notifications to keep abreast of price and version updates to the Apps you own
subscription to your personal “My Apps” and “Wish List” RSS feeds
list organization by App rating and sorting

Note: the personal RSS feeds are not secured by login.

We expect that managing these lists of Apps is intuitive enough, but for a little explanation: Apps are added to your personal “My Apps” or “Wish List” tabs by clicking the individual app’s “own it” or “want it” checkboxes, respectively. These checkboxes appear in underneath the price box for each App on both the front “What’s New” page as well as the search results page. You may also take Apps from your Wish List to your My Apps list via the “bought it” checkbox. Apps may be removed from the lists by mousing over the App icon, and clicking the “X” that appears.

After logging into your site account, we recommend searching for the Apps you own/want to build your lists. From then on, sign up for email notifications, and keep an eye on “What’s New” and search around for existing apps to grow your “Wish List.”

Of course, let us know what you think!

chris@appshopper.com

Top 100 iPhone App Lists Now Available

arn — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:48:44 +0000

I’ve turned on a new page: Top 100 lists for both paid and free apps.

What’s neat is it tracks the rankings on a daily basis and gives relative changes for each app as well as peak rating and # of days on the chart. I only have historical data for the past 19 days (as of this writing) so even the oldest apps will only have a maximum of 19 days on the chart. App name links to the AppShopper page while the price links to the iTunes store directly.

Besides just finding out what the most popular apps are, an interesting way to look at it on a daily basis is at the apps that are moving the fastest up and down the charts. This is easily seen by scanning the “Change” column.

Today, for example, Strategic Assault is the biggest (Paid) gainer by appearing at #67 on it’s first day in the Top 100. Meanwhile, Hooked: Pocket Fishing has fallen the most (Paid) with an 11 place drop to #79.

Enjoy.

Multiple Screenshots Now Available

arn — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:25:45 +0000

Still working on some other features, but I managed to release a small one tonight. App pages now have multiple screenshots from the App. This primarily is true for new updates, so if you search, apps that haven’t been updated for a while may not have all screenshots shown.

But all the new ones have them, and over time, the rest will catch up.

For an example, see TileMatch and click on the left and right arrows.

Temporary Pause on Updates

arn — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:41:18 +0000

We’re doing some upgrades and maintenance on the site tonight (Sat, October 25th), so you may not see updates for a long period of time (hours). Don’t worry, they are being recorded, but will show up all at once later in the evening (if all goes well).

We have a number of features that have been requested, and hopefully those will be coming soon.

Update: Things are sort of working now, but we will still be on slower than usual updates during Sunday. It should be worth it in the end. We’ll be back up to usual (and more) on Monday.

Welcome to AppShopper.com

arn — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:30:36 +0000

Welcome to AppShopper.com. This is a project that we’ve been working on for the a number of weeks. The site exists to track all activity in the iTunes App Store and to provide you an easy way to find new Apps and discounts.

We cut out a lot of the features from the first release in order to get it delivered. The core functionality is in place, but we have plans for many new features. With the loss of the “All iPhone Apps” functionality in the iTunes store, the site had already become very useful, and we thought we’d share it.

This blog will serve as a place we can post observations, site news and highlight interesting apps and price changes.

We appreciate the feedback. There are still a few site rendering issues in Internet Explorer, but hopefully those will be addressed shortly. Thanks for visiting, and spread the word.