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Facebook has done an amazing job getting Billions of users. But that same success (and the users themselves) have helped create a closed Web. I totally get it. Facebook has made it so easy and convenient to create your digital presence, and one that can be easily monetized, that it’s easy to understand why the … Read more
Saw this today at BI website… Source: Apps More And More Important Than The Mobile Web (Business Intelligence). Original report by Nielsen. The above is self-explanatory… What I find ‘funny’ is that over time I have noticed that Business Intelligence’s opinion on “native vs. web on mobile” swings back-and-forth (based on the top news of … Read more
The title of this blog is not what Zuckerberg actually said, but is what he really meant. From TechCrunch Disrupt — Zuckerberg Shows He’s The Right Man For The Job: “The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.” While building native apps that were bacially just a wrapper for … Read more
See my latest article, Introduction to jQuery Mobile (developerWorks). This article, an update to my original Intro to jQuery Mobile (Feb 2011), introduces the basics in the latest version of jQuery Mobile. Learn about browser support, the UI components, and the API. “Summary: Get an introduction to the jQuery Mobile framework. Learn the basics of … Read more
(This is part of a series of blog posts on Mobility in 2011) The debate of mobile (native) app vs. webapp is not new. This is a decade-old topic that has been debated since the days of WML. Today the debate is pretty much the same debate. The debate’s topics and considerations typically center around … Read more
See my latest article titled DOM-based data storage and retrieval using jQuery. It covers the jQuery data() APIs and HTML5 data-* attributes in your jQuery-powered applications… Summary: The popular, and free (MIT and GPL-licensed), jQuery JavaScript library has a concise and portable set of JavaScript APIs for rapid web development. In this article, learn how … Read more
My first article for 2011, meet the jQuery Mobile framework. This article provides an introduction to the jQuery Mobile framework. Learn the basics of the framework and how to write a functional mobile web application user interface with minimal or no JavaScript code at all. See the article Introduction to jQuery Mobile (IBM developerWorks) which … Read more
See my most recent blog article, An Overview of the Facebook APIs (Telefonica Developer’s Blog), an introduction to the different Facebook Platform APIs and their applicability to mobile. Enjoy… ceo
BONDI 1.1 is now in Candidate Release and it is open to public for feedback. Note that this phase will close on the 2nd of December so you’ll need to get your comments in before then. See OMTP and BONDI at the betavine website. What is BONDI? In short BONDI is a set of specifications, … Read more
I’ve updated my page on Physical and Web Interactions… …where the topic that “Everything around us can be made interactive (and thus is data) and at the center of this is the mobile handset”. See Physical and Web Interactions. ceo