Smartphone applications are predicted to overtake the desktop software market. So who will win the multi-billion-pound [dollar] application economy, and what are the new rules?
Tags: Android, App Store, Appcelerator, Apple, Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Brushes, CSS, documentation, ebay, Google, GPS, HIG, HTML, HTML5, human interface guidelines, iphone, IPhone OS, iPod, iTunes, JavaScript, Mobile, Mobile Development, Mobile operating system, Multi-touch, Nokia, Ovi Store, Palm, paypal, PhoneGap, Qik, RedLaser, Rim, RjDj, Smartphones, StreetCar, Symbian, The Guardian, User interface, web-based application, WebOS, Windows Mobile
A web community is a web site (or group of web sites) that is a virtual community. Web communities in recent times commonly take the form of a social network service, such as Facebook, Upcoming and Last.fm, an Internet forum, a group of blogs such as WordPress.com and Blogger, or another kind of social software web application.
Tags: Accessibility, assistive technologies, bbc, Community, connectivity, Content, context, continuity, CRM, facebook, Flash, FriendFeed, Google, HTML, Information Architecture, Internet forum, iphone, king, Last.fm, LinkedIn, mass communications, meme, N95, Nokia, Nokia N95, party social media services, re-worked web interface, Remember The Milk, respective web browsers, RSS, search engine, search engine optimisation, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, social software, The Guardian, The Web, Twitter, unique selling point, User Agent, User Science, usp, virtual community, Web 2.0, web accessibility, Web communities, web community, web robots, web-based community, web-capabilities, YouTube
Crossed between quasar and a game of tag, QR-kill is the new phenomenon spreading around the mobile community. Utilising high-end mobile phones like the Nokia N95 and Applie iPhone and 2-dimensional barcodes called QR-codes, this game is best played in public places like shopping centres or department stores for added amusement.
Tags: 2d, 3d, Apple, barcode, extra devices, games, Gaming, iphone, Mobile, mobile phones, mobile tagging, Nokia, Nokia N95, QR-kill, QRcode, SMS
Last weekend I attended Barcamp Brighton 3. For the uninitiated like me, a BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
Tags: 1d, 2d, Aral Balkan, Barcamp, barcodes, Brighton, camera, datamatrix, iphone, Jeremy Keith, Jerome Ribot, macro, Mark Wudden, maxicode, Miscellaneous, Mobile, mobile tagging, open source technologies, phone, presentation, QRcode, Rob Douglas, social protocols, Tantek Celik, web applications, web-gliterati
Since getting the new iPhone 3G I’ve been downloading ‘useful’ applications like there was no tomorrow. I now have the very useful Vicinity app, various social networking apps and the best of all, a Light Sabre.
Tags: 3G, Apple, Apple App Store, Asides, iphone, pence, social networking apps, wordpress
Since the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) was released at the end of February, we now have a stable platform on which to build desktop applications with our existing web skills. A number of people have already started and the Adobe AIR Marketplace is filling with AIR applications by the day.
So what is the big deal?
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe Integrated Runtime, Adobe Labs, AIR, AJAX, Analytics, api, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, bbc, Benjamin Dobler, ColdFusion, collaboration tool, designer, Desktop, desktop applications, ebay, Flash, Flex, Google, HTML, HTML & XHTML, Internet Applications, internet-ready, iphone, Kuler, less developer-centric tools, Mac, Marco Kaiser, Microsoft Vista, Nicolas Lierman, operating systems, Picnik image editor, RichFLV, Runtime ( AIR ), SearchCoders, social-interaction tool, Tweetr, Twitter, web applications, Web Browser, web screenshot tool, web skills, Web technologies, web-based suite, web-hosted application, WebKut, XML