Artificial ignorance

Let’s start off by taking a look at some facts.

IGN’s mobile traffic is on the rise. Here’s a chart of monthly unique visitors coming to IGN.com from mobile devices.

Monthly unique visitor traffic coming from mobile devices has doubled compared to where we were in January 2010.

What tends to be more interesting data is what percentage of our site’s total traffic is coming from mobile devices. Continue reading

As you may know, we recently announced the April Refresh of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools. We’ve made some changes to some our APIs, including the way our Push Notifications work.

A few things you need to be aware of with the new tools and code for Push Notifications in WP7:

1. In your WP7 application’s WMAppManifest.xml file, ensure you have listed out the capabilities that your application will be utilizing. In this case, for your application to support Push Notifications, at the least you’d need to add the following to your WMAppManifest.xml:

<Capabilities>
    <Capability Name="ID_CAP_NETWORKING" />
    <Capability Name="ID_CAP_PUSH_NOTIFICATION" />
</Capabilities> Continue reading