A HTML5 mobile app that I was working needed to get the city and province (ie state for you non-Canadians) that the user was in. Using the HTML5 geolocation method made it easy to get the latitude and longitude. But the missing piece was how to translate that into city, county (if applicable) and province/state. [...]
When I tried to add Admob to my mobile site a few days ago, I discovered that Google/Admob’s ruby gem only works with Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2. Considering that Rails3 is was released earlier this year, it was surprising that the gem had not been updated. Anyways, as its open-source, I was able to [...]
There has been some buzz yesterday about 24 of the worlds mobile phone carriers announcing that they will create their own app store (Wholesale Applications Community). We’ve known for a while that they are upset about being cut out of the revenue from app stores. My daughter as an example spends $20/month on iTunes. I [...]
We’re right in the middle of the mobile API wars. Each major handset vendor has their own set of APIs and are trying to woo developers to create apps for their devices. Ever since the iPhone’s AppStore run away success, users are more and more looking to apps for all the cool extra functionality they [...]
Fitbit (www.fitbit.com) started shipping their new fitness and sleep monitoring device today. This device is cool for a number of reasons. First, on a functional level, you simply clip it anywhere on your clothing and it keeps track of how many calories your burned, how far you’ve traveled (walk or run) and even if you [...]
