"Our Climate" iPhone app is rising fast, plus new link widget

I am delighted to report that “Our Climate” made it to the Number 1 paid weather App position in the Canadian iTunes store (out of 570 paid weather apps)!  It took only 40 hours to get there. See screen shot below:

See my review here: New “Our Climate” iPhone app released

“Our Climate” is number 2 in both Norway and the UK, and number 3 sales rank in the US for ITunes Weather Apps. It has broken into the top 10 list for iPhone Weather Apps in 7 countries already. To help sustain that growth, I have created a sidebar widget for those that wish to help promote it. See below.

Apple has also put “Our Climate” in the number 1 position in their “New and Noteworthy” featured panel (in the weather app category ) in a number of iTunes jurisdictions, including the US, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands and Canada.

In the countries where the App is gaining user reviews, it is generally (read: invariably) gaining 3.5 to 5 stars average ratings. This is reflective of very good customer satisfaction metrics. In addition the software is proving highly stable with no reported crash logs.

The list below is a sampling of how we are doing in various countries so far.

Brackets denote current sales rank in ITunes “top paid weather apps”

Featured in New and Noteworthy (generally number one spot – top left):

• Australia (5)
• Canada (1)
• Netherlands (12)
• New Zealand (9)
• UK (2)
• US (3)

Not featured in New and NoteWorthy, but good sales rank

• Norway (2)
• Sweden (6)

New link widget:

To help this app get wide exposure, I’ve created a link widget for anyone to place in the sidebar of their website. Feel free to copy/paste either of these. Free use granted to everyone.

Pixel size 180×340

HTML CODE: (be sure to cut n’ paste into text editor, then past into your website from there to prevent character formatting issues)

<a href=”http://itunes.apple.com/app/our-climate/id371849150?mt=8″ target=”_blank”><img title=”OurClimate for iPhone – click for details” src=”http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ourclimate_iphone_screen_drop2.jpg” alt=”” width=”180″ height=”340″ /></a>

With App Store logo (180×400):

HTML CODE: (be sure to cut n’ paste into text editor, then past into your website from there to prevent character formatting issues)

<a href=”http://itunes.apple.com/app/our-climate/id371849150?mt=8″ target=”_blank”><img title=”OurClimate for iPhone – click for details” src=”http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ourclimate_iphone_screen_drop3.jpg” alt=”” width=”180″ height=”340″ /></a>

Or if you just want to provide a link:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/our-climate/id371849150?mt=8

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UPDATE: For those people that are unable to cut/paste into your blog, please read this.

I’ve tested this HTML. It works.

You have to paste into web pages and blogs as HTML, using the HTML editor of the website. To do that you must first copy the HTML above and paste it into a text editor like Notepad, and then copy and paste into your blog/website HTML editor.

Just pasting the text above into the regular content editor won’t work. You have to switch to HTML editing where you can see all the tags and text.

Failing that, select one of the images, and copy/paste into your content editor.

It really is easy, millions have done it. Just give it a try. – Anthony

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