Archive for December, 2009

What is Four Square?

I hear tons about this app, what is it exactly? Here is how they describe themselves:
Gives you & your friends new ways of exploring your city. Earn points & unlock badges for discovering new things.
Cool. They offer the game on iPhone, Android and others. They seem to have tons of players. Interesting name choice, I [...]

“Mountain High Ski Resort Photo Challenge”

We are happy to announce the Mountain High Ski Resort Photo Challenge, powered by rTag’s mobile gaming platform. Starting in early January, riders and skiers will submit their camera-phone images for judgment! The winners will receive free lift tickets and other prizes.
Follow Mountain High Ski Resort on Twitter and Facebook for more information about the [...]

Meet rTag – Timothy Ashton

My name is Tim and I am the CEO and Co-Founder of rTag Global Position Gaming. I began my career in 1993 by creating promotional web sites for local Phoenix, Arizona area bands. When the bass player for one of my client-bands, Oil, mentioned his mom baked and sold cookies, I suggested that I create [...]

rTag, Inc. Provides Unique Mobile Games and Painless Mobile Marketing

rTag’s mobile platform allows businesses to quickly establish a mobile presence in the form of camera-phone and location-based casual gaming. By connecting Facebook, Twitter and the consumer’s mobile device to fun and rewarding mobile games, rTag increases marketing ROI by generating new sponsorship revenue and growing your opted in e-mail and SMS lists.

Evolving the Product and the Company

The last four weeks have provided an incredible amount of information that can be used to mold the next three to six months of rTag’s growth. Most of what we do here at rTag starts with Neil and I, then I go out and ask our advisers to give their opinions. After that, I go [...]

Large Events Require E-Mail Option

In planning an up-coming large rTag event, it became apparent that the only way to get great handset coverage is to offer an e-mail in option to the players. This was somewhat hard to agree on, because the point of using the rTag application is to re-engage the users after the event.
So it becomes a [...]