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.
Apple’s iPhone App Store rolls out today, which means we will finally get a look at the breadth and quality of applications that have been developed.
The launch applications for the App Store are less ambitious than I had hoped. There are around 500 applications available, many of which are eBooks of classic literature. Hopefully [...]
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 [...]
With the iPhone SDK released, people have started thinking expansively about ways that mobile software can change the way we interact with the world. www.ReadWriteWeb.com posted an article today describing 12 future software application concepts for your iPhone. The most interesting among them is "Reality Tagging" using the iPhone. Photos taken on the iPhone could be automatically geotagged using the iPhone's location tracking functionality and tagged with comments. Future visitors to that location could then pull up photos and comments related specifically to that location. Cool stuff.
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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