Right now I’m feeling especially good about technology innovation. After experiencing the AT&T’s tyranny and crappy service, I’m ditching my contract and setting up an array of services and devices to do what I need, with no contracts and at half the price. I signed up for a Boingo wireless for my iPhone, getting lifetime [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mobile'
Native vs Web mobile apps
September 10th, 2009 No Comments
Lately I’ve been questioning the advantages of native mobile app development over web apps. I’m impressed with the possibilities for web apps, especially now that Javascript includes an API for geolocation (code sample). iPhone 3.0 supports the feature out of the box, and Android phones can access it via Google Gears. The major advantages I [...]
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BeeMe: “Best Product Concept” at Microsoft Design Expo ’09
July 16th, 2009 No Comments
BeeMe was awarded Best Product Concept at Microsoft Design Expo ’09, with excellent feedback and interest from the judges, participants, and audience. Thanks to everyone at Microsoft Research for making it happen, to Nancy Hechinger and the Design Expo class, an the other schools: Dundee IMD from Scotland, CMU, Art Center, CAFA from Beijing, UI [...]
GivKwik
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
I’m currently working with a group at ITP on an application to get micropayments for charity. We’ve called it givkwik, it leverages “impulse philanthropy“. I’m doing the frontend dev and some backend/database work. We’re using AJAX, php/mySQL, and jQuery, with a healthy dose of semantc markup and styles. Web 2.0 ftw! update 7.5.09: GivKwik on [...]
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