I spent the day today at the DigiDay:Apps Mobile Application Strategy Conference. Agenda on Digiday’s site. Below are my brief notes from a few of the talks. App Show and Tell Part II: Presenter:Gabe Dorosz, VP & Management Supervisor, Interactive, Cramer-Krasselt Downloading apps currently is difficult because there are too many handsets/platforms, lack of platform [...]
Google has started showing mobile application results in their mobile web search results, potentially marking the beginnings of the intersection of web search and mobile apps. This initial implementation of mobile installable application results in mobile web search result is the first step. Mobile network infrastructure and mobile handset hardware are improving, and web standards [...]
Is Apple’s reluctance to include flash on iPhone or iPad actually a veiled play to change the entire face of code and web standards on the internet, and beyond? Or are they just hoping to sell more apps? I think that Apple’s strategy here goes both ways – and hopefully, both outcomes will change both [...]
Lately there have been a couple new websites and services which allow users to “roll their own” iPhone and mobile applications. Sites like ShoutEm, AppMakr and iSites all take your content feed, and re-present it in a custom designed iPhone, Android, or general mobile app. Most roll-your-own app makers charge a small fee, and import [...]
Testing functionality of wordpress for iPhone, in preparation for blogging while traveling in Sweden next week…
Posting from the WordPress iPhone app. Just another way of blogging while on the go. – Sent via WordPress for iPhone –
WordPress 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch was just released on iTunes. So far, it seems to be working well. I’m composing this post on my 8gb iPod touch. The installed app had no problem interfacing with the XML-rpc of my wordpress 2.6 blog backend. Additionally, it gives me full access to all of my [...]
Why make software for an increasingly dwindling market – the 1st generation (EDGE) iPhone. Instinctiv is a new company that’s making iPhone software that purports to predict what you want to listen to based on a number of factors, and the smartly shuffles your songs accordingly. But it only shuffles your own songs. Only the [...]
The possibilities for the more open, developer-friendly iPhone 2.0 software just keep getting better, especially on the speedier iPhone 3G. TechCrunch reports that Qik just announced that they are coming out with an iPhone application, to allow users to stream live video direct from their iPhone. Pretty cool feature, and that will also mean that [...]
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