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Mobify.me enables mobile access

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Mobify gives you the opportunity to make your webpage well readble on mobile devices, It seems like the thing basically decomposes the dom elements works as an proxy and you can select and edit the dom compoents you would like to have in your mobile version for different clients like iPhone, Nokia, Blackberry, and so on. Pretty similar to what the german company Sevenval does.


Mobify service offers a demo to display how your website will look and includes this explanation:

Mobile in Minutes — Use Mobify to create a fully functional, lightweight version of your site which loads up to 100x faster, looks great on mobile and lives on a URL like m.yoursite.com. Designing mobile views is far more efficient than developing standalone mobile websites or iPhone applications.

Follow the Mobile User and everything else will follow

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Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products talks about the importance of mobile services and mobile computing support. Since 2007 mobile access to information has quintupled, PC sales has gone down. So mobile access furthermore is connected to alot of key issues like better user experience, contextualized access and so on. So if industry finds good solutions for supporting the mobile user everyhing else will follow according to Vic.

Stanford Teaching iPhone Development for Free

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This is an interesting resource for iPhone development from an applied class at Standford.

Apple, Stanford Teaching iPhone Development for Free | Gadget Lab from Wired.com: "Apple and Stanford University this week will begin offering free videos and course materials on iPhone application development. Video recordings of Stanford’s 10-week computer science class, taught by two Apple employees, will be freely downloadable through Apple’s iTunes U educational channel. The course’s syllabus and slides will be freely available on iTunes as well."

New Book on Mobile learning by Mohamed Ally from Athabasca University

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It is an open source book so you can
download the E-book for free from the following URL. Feel free to
distribute the link to your colleagues and students. Also, you can place
a link to the book on your websites so that anyone can access the
information for the book.

http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120155

Dr. Mohamed Ally is Director and Professorat the Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University
Canada

GPS Mission: Create your own real world mobile games!

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GPS mission is a new app on the iPhone and a web based application. It says the world is your playground, you have an online mission editor with which you can edit the mission flow, bonus items users can collect, define photo tasks, and edit other details. You have direct access to the map and can connect these things to locations. This is quite similar to what we worked on some years ago in the Remote Access to Field Trip Project (Beside the Videconferenceing things). Nice interface on the iPhone, well used combination of gaming location based services and multi interface stuff.

You can share and distribute your missions with others.
Try it out! Soon you can play some of my mission in Bonn if you come to visit 😉

http://gpsmission.com/

Get geotagged sound snippets from freesoundproject

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The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons
licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is
what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. You can find collections, geotagged sounds and remix the sounds. Great stuff if you want to build geotagging environments.

Acces the search here, I found also very interesting the exploration by tags!