Category: Bookmarks

Alternative, smaller version of sIFR

Stories of problems that they encountered releasing their iphone app.

Choosy lets you open links in the browser you want. Just set up a few simple options and Choosy will do the right thing, whether that's opening a browser or letting you pick from some or all of the browsers on your system.

system handles billing and payment collection for software built on Amazon storage and processing systems, if the developers wish to use it.

Sometimes you have to restate the obvious.

Interesting discussion of how he decided what to pay to take over the source code of an existing iPhone application

Consumers now make up 45 percent of the subscriber base, and 60 percent of new subscribers during the quarter were consumers. Additionally, 75 percent of phones went to new customers in the U.S., and an even higher percentage in Europe.

But in 2009, IDC predicts that we’ll see a downturn in mobile phone volumes by 1.9 percent. More interesting for mobile marketers is that IDC expects an 8.9 percent growth of the smartphone market in 2009.

Yahoo's browser enhancements

new open source toolkit developed by Rhomobile that makes it possible to run Ruby applications on the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, and the BlackBerry.

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.

"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."

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.

You have to watch the video for this one. The ad really is innovative.

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)

Back when I used to do a lot of design, I would have devoured these. So pretty.

Not really an iPhone App, but I'm happy to have some place to point people who ask what happened to the Obama app.

Great MMS personalized advertising campaign that turned ~$60k into $45 million in revenue

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.

Innovative advertising campaign that uses 3d barcodes and the phone camera to overlay art, graffiti, and 3d images of cars on physical spaces.

A detailed look at the marketing and revenue of an iPhone application. Speaks to the App Store's marketing mix.

Gold rush stories

Videos and information on input masks.

Making text fields easier for people to input structured information (e.g., phone numbers)

Makes rounded corners

How to simulate slower mobile connections

Five days of an Android developer learning how to develop for the iPhone and blogging about the differences.

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.

Very cool free tool that makes it simple to manipulate and edit a spreadsheet of data. Watch the video to see the power.

Really cool community project creating a standard, modern xhtml and css based form layout. Looks great and the code is clean.

Really important information on how to tell Google which version of your site is the mobile one.

More ads served to iPhones than any other mobile device in AdMob's network.

"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."

" 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."

Map with data on where the 700 bicycle crashes from 2003 to 2006 have happened