Interesting news for mobile developers or those of you interested in porting your apps to the mobile space. Rhodes in an application development framework that simplifies developing apps for multiple platforms – an issue that has plaugued mobile developers with headaches forever! According to the developer team, “Rhodes is an open source smartphone framework that allows developers to write once using HTML to simultaneously create native applications for all smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android.” Mobile App Development Efforts are slashed by 80 Percent. Imagine this… Rhodes allows developers to write a smartphone application once using simple HTML and it automatically builds native applications for all smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and now Android. See more details HERE
Archives for March 24, 2009
Could Twitter be to blame for the economic downturn??
Hmmm.. take this one with a grain of salt… With people running out of excuses for the down-turn in the economy, why not blame Twitter! This headline from a recent report may get the attention of the social media types… “Harvard Economist Blames Twitter for Down Economy”. In this piece the report states that Twitter use may have caused the current economic downturn… “We see the rapid rise of Twitter usage in 2008 correlating very strongly with a tremendous decrease in American productivity” An interesting take on the popular social networking phenom, particularly when you note the graphics below… See details in this article
Graphing Twitter usage vs the Dow – a notable inverse relationship
Ironically, Twitter was over capcity at the time of writing!
Nokia is calling on all innovators
A reminder to mobile application developers… Nokia is once again Calling All Innovators and you could win some nice prizes! Contest details…Developers can submit applications for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest in these categories:
- Internet Innovation
- Flash
- Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities
Prizes! The top three submissions in each category will receive cash and prizes. See details at http://www.callingallinnovators.com/