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Designing and Developing Web Technologies on the Mobile Web.

Podcast- Luke Wroblewski Zurbsoapbox

Monday June 28, 2010

The folks at Zurb recently recorded a talk by Luke Wroblewski at their offices. If you don't know about LukeW, he's one of the best UX designers around and has been talking a lot about mobile as of late. In the podcast he talks about the importance of designing for mobile devices. It's a really fascinating talk, so check it out!

Posted in Education

PhoneGap now supporting Urban Airship

Wednesday June 9, 2010

Urban Airship is a service that provides developers with the ability to enable push notifications and in-app purchases in their apps without having to write a bunch of server-side code to communicate with Apple. The big news for web developers using PhoneGap is that Urban Airship push notifications are now supported (not in-app purchases yet). Here is a blog post with the details ...

Posted in Frameworks

New Nielsen Research Study on Mobile Apps

Monday June 7, 2010

Nielsen just published the results of a survey taken of 4,200 people who had downloaded a mobile application in the last 30 days. It examines the platforms, categories and individual apps that are most popular for mobile use. Fascinating stuff ... read the report here.

Posted in Reports & Stats

Mobile CDN

Friday June 4, 2010

For mobile websites that need to stream content or have particularly high and/or geographically diverse traffic, Mobile CDN is a good thing to look into.

Posted in Mobile Resources