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August 20, 2013

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Organic Apps, Smartphone Addiction

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Help Us Convince Developers to Make Less Addictive Apps

We are all addicted to Smartphones.

But it’s not only our fault. Just like with tobacco, coca-cola and other addictive products, the other side – the producers – are also responsible for the addiction.

I have an amazing opportunity to speak at one of the biggest Internet conferences this year – WebSummit, Ireland, 2013. In my talk I will convince app developers and entrepreneurs why they should make less addictive apps for us, the users.

Lior Frenkel WebSummit

Lior Frenkel WebSummit

But in order to speak there, I need your help

Get into this link, watch my video and press “Like”. It should take a minute of your time, but this is for a great purpose. Spreading the word about UNDIGITIZE.ME.

You can also help by clicking on this link to tweet the message: http://clicktotweet.com/28T06

I must remind you, that this is a non-profit project, so we need your good will support whenever possible.

Thanks…

// Lior Frenkel

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May 21, 2013

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Developers Should Help With The Digital Diet

In the last few years I’ve developed apps for the iPhone. As a developer, you want your app to succeed, you want users to download it, use it daily, then make it viral. It’s super easy to connect your app to Facebook these days, and by that you can increase engagement of the users – you. You can also add push notifications, which means you are allowed to nag your user, whenever you want to, not thinking about where he is now, or what he’s doing.

Developers should take responsibility

Developers should take responsibility

I remember me and the other guys in our startup sitting around the table, thinking how to make people use our app more and more. But at the same time, our team was super fair and we didn’t want to spam users, just like we don’t like it when apps are spamming us. This kind of behaviour means being responsible. Not just thinking about number of daily downloads, and how many times a day the user plays with our app; we were thinking about ourselves when we thought of “users”.

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