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Today via the MeeGO website http://meego.com the team released the MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform & Netbook User Experience project . From MeeGo… This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development [...]
Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS), these words are forever stuck in my mind, although I seem to forget about them periodically, and I know that many app developers forget these words. After monitoring, analyzing, interpreting, and blogging about mobile app development for the past decade these words still ring true and are perhaps the best [...]
Location – This is a no brainer, but perhaps the most compelling feature that an application can provide me along with the experience is location provisioning. Given that pretty much everything has a location component (physical location, a particular place that is sensitive or important to a certain moment, etc…) grabbing and using a location [...]
An interesting announcement from Down-under… A few days ago Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce announced an open invitation to any “able and willing body” to create mashups with nominated datasets from various Federal and State jurisdictions in Australia. Australian Government has just announced a contest for the best mushup that incorporates a range of spatial and [...]
Another interesting web event for application developers as the NN4D team will be hosting the following… “Intro to the 2010 NAVTEQ LBS Challenge” on Tuesday, October 6 2009, 11am CST. From NAVTEQ… “Come explore the many potential benefits of participating in the 2010 Global LBS Challenge. The current prize pool is $8.2 million USD and [...]
A reminder… Citysearch and IAC are on the hunt for a killer, local mobile/web application for their site at Sidewalk.com. The team recently announced the launch of their “right here, right now” contest to find a brilliant idea for a local mobile/web app that focuses on making life easier. The creator of the [...]
From the GreenThing (a Green WOM Initiative) the team is inviting “Green” developers to come and play with their news developer tools – an API and clever ways to create mashups. Many tech professionals are very HOT into Green apps so mess around, create a clever application that provides an environmentally sound solution [...]
Thanks to my Twitter Follower @JimBarry from ESRI who tells us via the Blog that the webpage and resources for those interested in presenting at the 2009 ESRI Dev Summit is now available. there’s only about 15-20 presenter spots this year so you better have something really cool and you better act fast! Good luck [...]
Via way of Andrew Turner (High Earth Orbit) details of Apps for Democracy. Mashup some data from DC and you could win! This is an interesting contest for Talented technologists and creatives battling it out to see who can create the most useful applications from DC’s Data Catalog — a resource that has tons of [...]
A tip… ICSM has released a new publication titled ‘ICSM Guidelines for Digital Elevation Data’. The aim is to provide guidelines and recommendations for acquiring elevation data depicting the earth’s surface based. It represent a first cut in the preparation of best practice for Australia and have been prepared as an outcome of a review [...]
Interested in creating widgets on the WHERE platform (uLocate) for the new iPhone 3G? Check out this video clip from the uLocate channel providing details just how simple it is.
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Hey ArcGIS blogger fans, Heads-up. Last month the ESRI geodatabase development team revealed a blog “Inside the Geodatabase”. Visitors will findnews and tips about ESRI geodatabases directly from development team. The blog is moderated by Product Engineers Brent Pierce and Jonathan Murphy. See http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/geodatabase/default.aspx
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