“What will my application be like on the netbook?” This is the question posed by iPhone developers around the world as they begin porting to the Intel® AtomTM SDK. When porting an application from one platform to another, the first item we as developers tend to think about is the programming language. Let us...
Daily Archives: July 30, 2011
A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency
‘”Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”‘ – A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens I know, I...
A Look Back On Our Mobile First CrunchUp And 6th Annual Summer Party At August Capital
We had a blast yesterday at our Mobile First CrunchUp and 6th Annual Summer Party at August Capital. At our CrunchUp, we had some amazing speakers and special guests. Even Chamillionaire managed to make a certain speaker sweat and started a debate on why Android doesn’t have a decent phone. Later in the day,...
Don’t Be Fooled By Vanity Metrics
Startups love to point to big growth numbers, and the press loves to publish them. We are as guilty as anyone else in this regard: one million downloads, 10 million registered users, 200 million tweets per day. These growth metrics can often be signs of traction (which is why we report them), but just...
iPad for Business Round-Up: DocStorm and Conference Pad 2.0
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. The iPad isn’t just a hot new consumer device, it’s also an increasingly popular tool for...
How musicians are making money by returning to their roots
I remember being a kid and hearing about how recording songs from the radio onto a casette tape was killing music. It was happening all over the world, most prominently in the UK where the “Home Taping is Killing Music” campaign was apparently everywhere to be found. I never really bought into the hype,...
Convoluted TOS and "Open" APIs Will Be the Death of Us
Twitter and Facebook have both in the past year gone through the same (very public) battle with members of their developer ecosystem over TOS-related oversteps that resulted in termination of access. I hope many of you join me in arguing that the breaching parties (i.e. the developers holding the API key) should not be...
Google Open-Sources NoSQL Database Called LevelDB
In May Google open-sourced a BigTable-inspired key-value database library called LevelDB under a BSD license. It was created by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat of the BigTable project at Google. It’s available for Unix based systems, Mac OS X, Windows, and Android. Although it first appeared in Google Code months ago, a blog post...
PhoneGap is a Swiss Army knife for mobile app developers
When developers have the ability to craft applications for multiple platforms with little to no barrier, amazing things can happen. 6Wunderkinder is a prime example of this, as it managed to deliver its popular Wunderlist productivity app to additional platforms in short order thanks to a partnership with Appcelerator. But not every developer has...
Check Out These Facebook, Twitter And Google+ Propaganda Posters (GOOG)
These Facebook, Twitter and Google+ propaganda posters are the work of designer Aaron Wood, and they’re pretty awesome. This writer’s favorite is Twitter, which is yours? Image: Aaron Wood Image: Aaron Wood Image: Aaron Wood (Via Laughing Squid) Don’t Miss: 19 Social Networks That Are Bigger Than Google+ → Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/Zqri5l1sn1E/facebook-twitter-google-plus-propaganda-posters-2011-7