Doh!

Or is it a “Doh!”? This email has actually come from a chain of events starting at a simple idea, putting it to Paypal, getting it selected, heading to Whitiker House (Paypal UK HQ), being part of Paypal’s entrepreneurs discussion group and all the way to actually receiving some honest sqilla’ for it!

Not bad, eh eh eh and here’s a piccie from the day with the other entrepreneur winners, I’m the goon posing on the side…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54389050@N05/5038261043/

In-fact our  competition entry said, “give us £100 and we’ll buy an Apple Dev licence”. A pretty sensible thought with all the requests for iPhone, Blackberry, Palm and iPad apps our studio is getting.

Low and behold, we won it and now, Thought Den is already working on our first app for the iTunes store!

And here’s the official mail out, (head to Ideas 101)

Official email

So now TD is officially producing apps for the mobile market using our extremely honed skills in games and rich website development. Contact dan@thoughtden.co.uk if you think you business, game or idea will be better placed directly in the hands of your consumers as an app…

…and please don’t send me a good looking spammy email. I will click it.

Anyone wanna’ know what’s been lighting our fires recently? I know we’ve been posting on Happy Packages, Bournemouth and a sunny day on the beach, but there’s been a few interesting moments been happening outside our bubble too.

Money in your Mobile

First up is some news I’m following very closely regarding payment of services from your Mobile Phone. It seems that Mobile Banking team, Monitise, are working with the Carphone Warehouse to develop a secure money application on your phone which you can use to check balances, view transactions and transfer money.

Judging by the amount of phones my house-mate’s lost (more…)