Category: Deep Thoughts

Just a quick repost of the reminder for this weekend’s MobileCampNYC3 at Microsoft… I’ll be presenting my recent work on Android and TwitterVoteReport.

MobileCampNYC3 is just 4 days away (Saturday November, 15th)!

Sessions Preview
We’re really excited and looking forward to some the sessions that people already are interested in hosting. But don’t worry, session sign up is still the morning of the event and we should be able to accommodate everyone interested in speaking. A small sampling of proposed topics include:

* Future of Wireless by Ian Spalter, Creative Director of Mobile/Emerging Platforms at R/GA
* Location-based mobile social networking + proximity-based marketing by Murat Aktihanoglu
* Web-based mobile games and social interaction within mobile by Nick Smolney & Karen Schrier.
* Barcodes in Mobile.
* Getting started on iPhone by Nick Clarey.
* Android development – discussion of development process for VoteReport & source included.
* Best practices derived from building MobileDead, a multiplayer location based game.

Location, Start Time,…
Just so you’re sure, we’ve include all the location/time info below:

Location
Microsoft Offices
1290 Ave of the Americas (6th ave), Floor #6
New York, NY 10104
Google Maps

Start Time
Doors open at 9:15am. Breakfast will be served. Sessions officially start at 10:30am

Special Thanks to our Sponsors:
* Microsoft – A small software company in Seattle that is hosting MobileCampNYC3 at its NYC offices.
* RGA – An interactive advertising agency which specializes in servicing a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies, world-class brands and franchises.
* SkyHook Wireless – Provider of wireless solutions for finding your location.

I’ve always been a huge fan of movie storyboards, with their ability to see into the future in some respect… to visualize this entire range of motion and events in a single, quickly sketched frame. I’d like to incorporate their aesthetic into my software design work more, perhaps as a part of user stories or some other aspect of the development process.

This image is from a collection on Flickr of a number of early storyboards from the first Star Wars film.

all in all, looks like a good day of voting…

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I speak with my 19(?) year old nephew Ryan on topics including parental facebooking, daylight savings, marathons, eggnog and his unfortunate choice of presidentai candidates (but don’t hold that against him)

Simple and clean… very Google. I love that you can see the installs and active users of your app, though I wonder what “active” means? Are they actively tracking how often someone runs an application…. I hope not! Otherwise, very impressed with this console so far. Works great.