While some “mature” consumers may question the appeal of Facebook’s Places application – the program that allows a user to “check in” and let friends or others know where they are at any given time – savvy marketers see the application as a great way to reach a highly desirable demographic. Places largely appeals to [...]
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What’s Up With Location Based Social Networking?
Location based social networking is facilitated by applications like Buzzd, Loopt, BrightKite and Foursquare, which allow mobile smart phone users to “check in” at either map coordinates or location – such as a business, restaurant, or event center. Recently, Facebook and Twitter added location options. Twitter announced in April that they will allow users to [...]
Has Apple Become “The Man?”
Apple has built its reputation on innovation, on breaking the mold, on thinking outside the box. But can they keep their outsider ethos when they are the standard instead of the new technology on the block? If recent and continuing developments with the Apple App Store for iPhone and the iPod TYouch are any indication, [...]
Appcelerator: the Latest Big News From Android
In the past months since Webdatamation released FileDroid, our Android-based file management system, the phones, applications and interest in the Android operating system have exploded.
The latest development in Appcelerator Titanium development software in Beta version takes the next huge step forward in cementing Android as a mobile software platform for the future.
The new Steroid… for Android
Let us all admit the fact that the Android is earning quick reps and rave reviews. The mobile OS from Google is going through an open development phase, thereby making us wait in anticipation for its latest releases and fixes. However, its native file explorer still lacks some basic user friendly features that caught our [...]
iPhone SDK
In March of 2008, Apple released an SDK, or Software Development Kit, that allows independent software developers to design applications for the iPhone, write the programs and test the software to see if they will work properly on the iPhone.
IPhone owners can find all kinds of applications at the Apple App store. If you’re a developer, you can post your application for free or for a fee, depending on what you’ve put into it and what you want to get out of it.
It costs $99 to download the Standard SDK and $299 for the Enterprise version, or you can ask a company like Webdatamation to create an iPhone app for you.
SDK provides an environment for development tools that is similar to other Apple environments. Developers will find the source editor and graphical debugger look familiar and are intuitive to use.