Four Reasons App Developers Build for Apple Before Android

Over the last few years Android and Apple have come to dominate the smartphone market.  A recent comScore report found that 85% of mobile devices run on either Android (52.5%) or Apple’s iOS (34.3%).  Blackberry and Windows have seen their market share evaporate over the last few years, and at this point Android and iOS are the only mobile platforms that matter....

Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs

I love a good quote.  When I was in college I kept a list of them in a giant word processing document.  I would drop them pretentiously into my papers, hoping some of the wisdom of others would rub off on my own mediocre writing.

Given that it is no surprise that our Brick Factory website and biographies pages include liberal servings of quotes that we hope help explain our philosophy....

Three Lessons From My First Year as a Business Owner

On October 1, the Brick Factory turned one year old.  We had a great first year.  We are in a good place financially and have done some fantastic work that I’m really proud of. 

On a personal level, the launch of the Brick Factory has been a big change for me. ...

Barack and Beyoncé

Over on the Huffington Post a few weeks ago Patrick Ruffini declared 2012 the Groupon Election.  Patrick’s basic premise is that due to campaigns’ increasingly sophisticated use of analytics, email asks and online promotions have come to resemble those run by companies such as Groupon.   The long winded campaign updates of 2008 have been replaced by ...

Five Great Donation Page Designs

If you ask most non-profits, charities and political campaigns what the number one priority for their online program is, the majority of them will tell you it is to raise money online.  Yet at the same time, most of these same organizations will admit to spending very little time thinking through the layout and design of their online donation pages. ...