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We’ve posted a sample of using AlertRocket with an Android native client.

Full source code and docs can be downloaded in our integrations center.

We’re excited to announce another integration, this time extending our Android PhoneGap plugin to iOS.

If you’re developing a phonegap app and need notifications, this plugin and sample app will get you up and started both with native notifications and AlertRocket in minutes.

Check it out in our integrations center and let us know how it goes!

We’re really excited today as our largest customer yet has launched!!

Unfortunately we can’t (yet?) share who they are, but we are registering over 3000 new devices every hour and going strong. At our current capacity we could do 10+ rollouts like this simultaneously and soon we’ll be able to do over 100 times that (3 million device registrations / hour).

It’s a great validation of the platform, our scaling, and the model. We look forward to working with all of you, big and small, over the coming months to roll out our push service for all of your websites and apps!

Wanted to provide a link to what’s going on here at AlertRocket for the people that don’t have accounts and didn’t receive this in email.

Check out our March newsletter to get the latest.

We have just released two files to kick off our Sample Integrations Center and we have many more on the way.

First off is a plugin for PhoneGap on Android to allow your phonegap app to easily use our native push service. Check it out and download the C2DM plugin.

Secondly we have a sample iOS AppDelegate that uses many of our push API functions to enable your app for APNS / push. Check it out and download the zip here.

We have released a new version of the iOS web-push client with the gallery removed as we previously posted about.

Check iTunes or the AppStore for the update as it rolls out over the next 12-24 hours.

The Rise Of Startup Village

While not completely positive, I think this was the first year for SxSW Interactive to have Startup Village. From our perspective, it was perfect. Startup Village brought together the startups(duh!), entrepreneurs, and investors into one location with sessions geared toward those three groups. Since AlertRocket is a B2B service, it allowed us to have a very intense and focused networking conference.

For us, the hub of Startup Village was the Startup America lounge. It was the perfect place for all the attendees to mingle without having to interrupt the various sessions with pitches. If you are a startup with a product to market, I can’t imagine a better situation at any conference.

SXSW was great this year. So many innovators – so many interesting people. We attended several of the sessions, and they were very good, too.

There was a huge emphasis on Social – so much so that the difference between a lot of the apps/sites was very subtle in some cases. We had an interesting talk with Aaron Avery, the marketing director at Banjo. He described a shift in monetization that is taking place in the mobile industry to a third path. Most apps use either direct payments (initial or incremental) or advertising to monetize. Banjo, and other apps and services will get their revenue (in whole or in part) from the analysis of data collected from users and their interactions. The emphasis is not individual users and their private information, but on trends, localities, and product vacuums that are gleaned from social interactions. Something to keep an eye on for you app developers.

There was also a lot of interesting overlap between music and interactive. Several apps and services focused on providing value to musicians, potential musicians, and music lovers. We had a chat with Dennis McKay at SpindiMusic.com, where they are trying to unite some of those elements.

And it looks like just about everybody sees the need for mobile messaging – especially our Web-Push Notifications, discussion of which was almost universally greeted with, “Do you have a card?”

API’s are being made available today that let you both list the registrations in your account as well as access the registrations that have been disabled by one of the native service providers.

Read all push registrations for an app.

Read all disabled registrations for an app.

General documentation is also available for all the other existing APIs

We want to thank everyone for their participation in the web and native push beta. There are now 200+ people trying out the beta in various stages of production and we couldn’t be happier.

Stay tuned as we reveal the final notification pricing model, with some serious volume discounts.

And as always, ping us if we can help out with your usage of the beta, our product in general, or other issues.

Thanks again!