Facebook announced its new SDK for Android developers today. One of our developers was at Google I/O last week where Facebook was showing a developer preview.
Up until now the ways to integrate Facebook into Android applications were hacks that weren’t officially supported by Facebook. But in a nod to the fast-growing popularity of [...]
The New York Times has an article about Ushahidi, a platform for aggregating data and plotting it on a map. Ushahidi was created by a Kenyan lawyer after the violence that followed the 2007 Kenya election.
The site collected user-generated cellphone reports of riots, stranded refugees, rapes and deaths and plotted them on [...]
It looks like Android users are overwhelmingly guys (73%!):
Got an Android phone? You’re probably a man
Are most early adopters men or is it something inherent to the platform?
Here are some more mobile stats: AdMob Mobile Stats January 2010
comScore’s December 2009 report on Mobile Market share shows Android is at 5.2% (up 2.7 from September). Apple continues to grow, while RIM, Microsoft, and Palm all dropped. While still last among the five, Android is showing strong growth and is on track to overtake Palm very soon.
ArsTechnica’s summary: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/02/google-makes-biggest-gain-in-smartphone-market-share.ars
Full comScore report: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/2/comScore_Reports_December_2009_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
Here is an MSN money article which recommends NOT buying any smart phone other than the Blackberry or iPhone.
Smart-phone also-rans
In the past few years, several smart phones have hit the market with features similar to the iPhone and BlackBerry, but they haven’t generated the same buzz.
As a result, fewer developers are likely to create [...]
ChangeWave’s December survey shows Android is used by 4% of smart-phone users (up 3% from September).
Android is the choice for 21% of people planning to buy a smart-phone in the next 90 days (up 15% from September). Compare this to iPhone’s figure of 28%, down 4 points. Satisfaction of Android users is at 72%, almost [...]
Always found it interesting to observe differences with mobile phone usage in Asia and SF. This article provides observations in different parts of the world.
Mobile-phone culture: The Apparatgeist calls
I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]
AdMob’s October 2009 mobile metrics report is out, and it’s clear that the Droid may be a serious contender to the iPhone. Just two weeks after its launch, the Droid accounts for 24% of Android requests.
It should be noted that AdMob measures requests to its advertising delivery system from applications and mobile websites. These numbers [...]
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