First you must understand your target audience. If you’re developing applications forkids you must make the application easy to use and easy to understand. For example,consider eliminating text labels, popup menus, etc.When I started developing “My Little Artist” the hardest task for me was to create thebrush icons. The easiest way was to make...
Daily Archives: July 20, 2011
FDA to Review Medical Smartphone Apps
The explosion in the number of health-related apps has opened many interesting possibilities for rethinking both mobile and personal medicine. But when the Food and Drug Administration starts a blog post by invoking the Apple slogan “there’s an app for that,” you know the results may well be “there’s a regulation for that.” Indeed,...
Google+ May Have 10 Million Users, But They’re Not Visiting Very Often (GOOG)
Image: Wikimedia See Also: How Much Will The Android Explosion In Asia Really Help Google? Hooray! Google+ Is Now 2.4% Of Facebook! Google+ Is Already The Top Free App For iPhone Google claimed last week that Google+ already had 10 million profiles, and earlier today an analyst estimated the number could be as high...
Now We Know What Google Is Doing With All Those "GetOnline" Domains (GOOG)
Image: Google See Also: Google+ Circles You Can Actually Use How Much Will The Android Explosion In Asia Really Help Google? Google Is Shutting Down More Experimental Projects A couple weeks ago, some eagle-eyed watchers noticed that Google had registered more than 100 domain names ending in “getonline.com”. Now, we know what they’re...
Pachube Acquired: Why Did it Sell So Early?
My favorite startup in the fast emerging Internet of Things market, London based Pachube, has been acquired by Woburn, Massachusetts based LogMeIn. The deal is worth “approximately $15 million in cash,” some of it dependent on performance. LogMeIn provides provides cloud-based remote access solutions, such as the remote PC control app Ignition that we...
Google’s Getting Harry Potter, But The Kindle Will Too
This morning Google made an announcement of magical significance: the Harry Potter eBooks, which are being released for the first time this October, will be available via its Google Books platform. That sounds like it should be a given, but in the case of Potter it isn’t — author J.K. Rowling is selling the books...
Bleacher Report CEO: Why Slideshows Are A Good Thing For Readers — SAICast
See Also: The 25 Sports Records That Are Impossible To Break WATCH: Bicycle-Kick Volleyball Is The Craziest Game You’ve Ever Seen Jose Reyes Comes Off The DL And Drives The Mets To A Win Against The Cardinals SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON iTUNES HERE Sports site Bleacher Report is on the verge of breaking...
Top 10 coolest features of OS X Lion
Now that OS X Lion is out there and people are beginning to install it and use it, more of its 250+ new features are getting examined and enjoyed. I had some time to thoroughly talk about many of those features in my review of Lion, but there were a few standouts among those...
Is Google becoming more mature — but less interesting?
Ever since co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO from Eric Schmidt in January, Google has been getting a lot more, well… businesslike. It has been closing down or winding up a variety of projects and experiments, including Google Health and Google PowerMeter, and now it has announced that it is closing the door...
Africa Mobile Ads Grow 40% in Three Months
Independent mobile advertising network, InMobi, reported a 37.9% growth in mobile advertising in Africa over the three months from February to May. On InMobi’s blog, Surag Patel said, “This growth was largely driven by the continued growing trend towards smartphone adoption in these markets.” Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/cgW74WzdaII/africa_mobile_ads_grow_40_in_three_months.php