We’re pleased to announce that Shawn Burke has joined our team as VP of Engineering. Shawn spent 14 years at Microsoft working primarily in the developer space (.NET FX, VS, Silverlight, WP7 App Platform, Azure SDK) in capacities ranging from frontline developer to software architect to Engineering leadership. He is known for pushing the boundaries of how Microsoft related to the developer audience.  He was behind the release of the [...]

Everyone wants their application to be location aware, but this means more than just latitude and longitude. You need context. What’s at that location, is it a park or a coffee shop? What else is nearby? What did this user think about it the last time they went there? All of this means keeping a database of locations spanning the entire globe along with all of the information about them. [...]

Hi, my name is Ryan, and I am developer here at Buddy.  Some time ago we completed our Facebook Commerce integration, which allows you to use Buddy’s Commerce web service with Facebook’s Pay Dialog.  Using Facebook’s Pay Dialog allows your users to make Facebook purchases from within your Buddy-enabled Facebook app. Since security is of the utmost importance for your users’ financial transactions, Buddy feels it’s important that all app [...]

As a new ‘Backend as a service’ startup, one of the first decisions we made last year was how to host all of the bits and bytes which we were going to generate. Buddy is fundamentally a software company that we’ve exposed as a “service” and that service needs servers to run on.   In thinking about Buddy, we try to think about the business model first, and technology second. [...]

    Hey everyone – happy Cyber Monday! To celebrate, Buddy is announcing some amazing new functionality today – introducing, “Commerce as a Service”. For the first time, developers will be able to track, update and manage in-app purchases sold through Facebook and iOS, using a BaaS platform. Developers of Facebook web applications typically have had to manage store inventory inside their apps. With Buddy’s new Facebook “Commerce as a [...]

*(a.k.a. Task-based Asynchronous Pattern) Hi, my name is Brad, and I’m a new developer here at Buddy.  We at Buddy are pumped to be supporting Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.  To that end, we’ve added support in our SDK for the new simplified task-based asynchronous pattern that was delivered in the .NET Framework 4.5 and the Windows Runtime.  This new pattern makes it much easier to build asynchronous code, [...]

Today, we’ve announced our broad backend as a service (BaaS) support for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8 operating system. Leveraging features found only in Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Buddy’s SDK enables developers to efficiently build signature Windows Phone 8 applications without writing any server side code. We have experienced tremendous growth with over 10,000 developers and publishers building applications and leveraging the rich data and analytics that the Platform [...]

Today, Nokia announced their new Premium Developer Program (https://developer.nokia.com/premium). By including Buddy Platform service, developers can now build cloud connected Windows Phone apps without having to build, manage or maintain their own cloud services on the backend. Now, developers can spend their time & resources building amazing Windows Phone experiences, without having to write any server-side code. Richard Kerris, VP & Global Head of Developer Relations, Nokia, said; “Were delighted [...]

    This morning in New York City, Microsoft executives launched Windows 8 – the newest OS platform from the Seattle software giant. The release of Windows 8 today represents a HUGE opportunity for developers around the world. Estimates are that Microsoft will sell 100 million copies of Windows 8 in the next 3-4 months, and up to 400 million copies in 2013. With a relative handful of apps in [...]

Buddy.com is growing fast, and we need amazing people! Interested in working at a killer startup with incredible people, building technology for the world’s biggest companies? How about a snack supply to rival Willy Wonka? And what if we threw in meals, fantastic benefits and a workspace the envy of your cubicle-confined friends? If you’re awesome, and we mean really incredible – come talk to us about joining the hottest [...]