Category: iPhone
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BBC iPhone apps? I think there’s a better way
Last month the BBC announced that it would launch a limited number of mobile app, starting with News and Sport and then possibly an iPlayer app. Unsurprisingly the NPA promptly complained that the BBC would “damage the nascent market“, and now the BBC Trust as said that it wants to review the plan and that…
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Interesting stuff from around the web 2008-11-24
The Shape of Alpha – using mass data to reveal the perceived shape of geography [Code: Flickr Developer Blog] “Plotted all the geotagged photos associated with a particular ‘Where On Earth ID’ (a database of places and bounding boxes, which describes the spatial hierarchy between places) to generate a mostly accurate contour of that place.…
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The mobile computing cloud needs OAuth
As Paul Miller notes Cloud Computing is everywhere – we are pushing more and more data and services into the cloud. Particularly when accessed from mobile devices this creates an incredibly powerful and useful user experience. I love it. The way that I can access all sorts of services from my iPhone means that an…