Over 25% of Downloaders have Upgraded

Well, so far version 1.3 is having a pretty fantastic uptake on the upgrade list.  We have over 25% of the people who have purchased the app have taken advantage of this update.  

Twitter integration for Wasted Time

So, now that we got the persistance across sessions and meeting restart functions approved and on the app store, it's time to really focus on Twitter integration.  We are glad we hadn't gotten to far before this time, since Twitter has officially shut down all apps that are using simple integrations.  So now we have to focus on getting a much better understanding of how the OAuth features work for twitter.  In the mean time we want your feedback on how Twitter integration should work.  There are a few choices that come to mind:

1) Tweet when ever a meeting has reached quorum and when it is ended, as long as you have selected that you wish to tweet.  While this would be the simplest, it may not be prudent to tweet that you just wasted a ton of money by being in a meeting with your boss.

2) Only tweet when a meeting has completed.  

3) Only tweet when quorum is reached.

4) Ask at each major point, do you want to tweet about this event, i.e.  If you press quorum achieved, ask if you wish to tweet, or if your meetin ended, instead of asking "Was it worth it", ask do you want to tweet, and if you answer yes, then ask was it worth it.  This would allow the tweet to say "We just spent $1billion and it was worth it :)"

What do you think?  Any suggestions?

Latest Updates

We think we are only a couple of days away from submitting the next version to Apple for the App Store.  Data storage and retrieval between running session is within sight.  Trying to decide if we should wait for twitter integration or submit this version first.

Data Persistence Across Platforms

We are currently looking at Android for a version of WastedTime...Today when you purchase the iPhone app, you get a fully functioning iPad app two, not some cheap pixel doubling app.  Given this, you may find yourself, like I do, having to chose between the iPhone and the iPad version for all your meetings during a week.  This is because the current version of WastedTime stores it's persistent data in the iOS's NSUserDefaults.  Meaning that it is not shared across devices.  

Do you think that it would make more sense to have a data store in the cloud which would automatically sync up when you start the app?  We do want to add a mashup of wasted time around the globe, but did not want to store any specific data.  If we have data persistence across devices, you could show total global wasted time within the app itself.  What do you think of this idea?

Improved Calendar - Don't ya think?

So got a bit of feedback, and it seems that people agree with me, that the calendar was pretty bad... even lame may come to mind... So here's an improvement (?)

And just to complete the image.. here is it small (as it would show in the app...

 -- And just for fun.. the clock in app size --

 --- I think the clock shrinks down well....