On Friday I had the pleasure of speaking with Peentoo Patel, Technical Lead at mDialog. We discussed iPhone application development and his company, mDialog. mDialog has created a high quality video sharing site built around the open h.264 format. The upside of mDialog for consumers of video is high rez user submitted content that can be browsed and shared using an iPhone or iPod Touch. The upside for content creators is a platform that allows broad and narrow casting, and simplified publication of video through integrated RSS.
As a interactive media lawyer, it goes without saying that I am bullish on the future of the games industry. Every year video games get more compelling, more detailed, more fun to play. Meanwhile television and movie producers keep pumping out more of the same.
The rumors going around the web are that Activision [...]
Urban Spoon has an iPhone application in the wings that looks to be a great way to add some spontaneity to your dining plans. The application (demo embedded below) uses the iPhone's location awareness and provides you with a slot machine style wheel of fortune for picking restaurants. Shake the iPhone and a recommendation is made. Don't like the pick, shake it again.
You may have noticed my posts have been a little sporadic the last few days. I am writing from the Grand Hyatt in Kauai, which is amazing. So amazing that I have been spending more time at the pool and less time writing posts. I have, however, been spending some of my [...]
[Fan Created Mock Design: Courtesy of Engadget.]
The New York Times is running an article today in its technology blog speculating that Apple is working on its own eBook reader. Steve Jobs has publicly stated that he thinks eBooks aren’t going any where. In his words “most Americans don’t read.” John Markoff [...]
Piper Jaffray: AT&T paying Apple $18 per iPhone, per month | One More Thing - CNET News.com: “Piper Jaffray: AT&T paying Apple $18 per iPhone, per month
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The exact details of AT&T’s revenue-sharing agreement with Apple have not been disclosed, but one analyst thinks that over the two-year life of a user contract, [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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