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new open source toolkit developed by Rhomobile that makes it possible to run Ruby applications on the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, and the BlackBerry.
Author: Jason Grigsby
links for 2008-12-16
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Rubicon Consulting has surveyed iPhone users, and found that half of iPhone users are shifting away from using a laptop computer. 28% said they "strongly agree" with that statement.
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"browser-based content is now accessed by more people using a mobile phone than using a PC on the planet. There are 1.02 billion people who access the internet on a mobile phone versus 950 million personal computers connected to the internet."
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YQL is a SQL-style language to get information from all kind of web services…What about screenscraping? You can get data from any valid HTML document using XPATH with select * from html.
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You have to watch the video for this one. The ad really is innovative.
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Simple text file similar to robots.txt used to point search engines (and hopefully browsers) to the correct versions of sites (e.g., mobile vs. pc)
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Back when I used to do a lot of design, I would have devoured these. So pretty.
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Not really an iPhone App, but I'm happy to have some place to point people who ask what happened to the Obama app.
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Great MMS personalized advertising campaign that turned ~$60k into $45 million in revenue
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Inside each letter are open circles where no ink is used. When used in a 9 – 11 point size, the font doesn't stand out as different, but if used in larger point sizes, the circles become obvious. For the occasional printed page though, the font works as well as any other and the company claims that it uses 20 percent less ink.
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Innovative advertising campaign that uses 3d barcodes and the phone camera to overlay art, graffiti, and 3d images of cars on physical spaces.
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A detailed look at the marketing and revenue of an iPhone application. Speaks to the App Store's marketing mix.
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Gold rush stories
Let’s Just Use Our Phones to Surf the Internet
Concerns Surface About iPhone App Market
In case you missed it, there’s been some great discussion lately about the iPhone App Store and the drive towards 99 cent applications. In particular, whether or not this pressure for lower prices will allow developers to make enough money off of more complex applications.
I’m happy to see this discussion starting. More than a few of the conversations I’ve had recently have been with people who seem to have unrealistic expectations about the iPhone App Store. I’ve talked to many people who must have an iPhone app without a real business case or logic for it.
That’s not to say that people can’t be successful with the App Store nor that there aren’t really interesting and exciting things happening in the market. It just feels a little out of balance.
I’m going to write more about this in much more detail later and am planning on making this part of my presentation topics for the coming year. However, I wanted to make sure people were following this conversation. So here are some of the better articles on the topic:
links for 2008-12-15
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Videos and information on input masks.
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Making text fields easier for people to input structured information (e.g., phone numbers)
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Makes rounded corners
links for 2008-12-10
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How to simulate slower mobile connections
links for 2008-12-08
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Five days of an Android developer learning how to develop for the iPhone and blogging about the differences.
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I avoid reading emails whose font size is too small. This article tells you how to set a minimum font size as well as a way to force emails to be plain text if you wish.
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Very cool free tool that makes it simple to manipulate and edit a spreadsheet of data. Watch the video to see the power.
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Really cool community project creating a standard, modern xhtml and css based form layout. Looks great and the code is clean.
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Really important information on how to tell Google which version of your site is the mobile one.
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More ads served to iPhones than any other mobile device in AdMob's network.
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"Page views came in at almost 5 billion, growing 326% since October 2007. Data transfers, which can be used to infer both potential consumer cost savings and potential carrier revenues generated, hit 73.7 million MB (compressed). This is a 490% growth rate since October 2007."
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" Browsers are the new application framework, he says, and as a result ARM is researching how to optimize their cores for specific Web browsers not just the various operating systems."
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Map with data on where the 700 bicycle crashes from 2003 to 2006 have happened