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Meet with ExtendLogic CEO at Mobile Forum: App Stores and Discovery by Telecomcouncil

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on March 17, 2010

App Stores were the big story for 2009, and growth and interest in that sector is sure to continue through 2010. But there are definite fractures in the generic app store’s foundations. The developers of mobile content are increasingly voicing growing dissatisfaction over likely obscurity, hyper-competition, shrinking margins, and that same bug-bear once again – fragmentation.

Research from one Telecom Council member reveals no fewer than 44 app stores emerged since 20083Q, with at least 7 more coming in 2010Q1. This leaves us with some questions to address:

  • What are the considerations for the app store operators (the carriers, handset vendors, OS makers, portals, etc.) as they try to carve themselves out a piece of this role?
  • Is it about revenue, or is it ownership of the relationship?
  • Can the industry possibly support this many storefronts?
  • What role does application discovery play?
  • Does discovery take place within a store, per the Amazon sales models, or across stores, per the Google search models?
  • Are there social networking solutions that can help sort through the 100,000+ apps out there?

For developers, a brief trend towards homogeneity has been halted, and tough decisions once again loom about the best path to market, getting noticed, and which app stores are most promising. What factors should developers be demanding of their channels? Are there differences between enterprise and consumer, between large and small ISVs? So many questions. At this meeting, you can learn best practices for answering them, communicate with your potential channel partners, spot trends, and make the connections that will get you to your next milestones.

This meeting is free for Telecom Council members, and $200 for non-members.

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When Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
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2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, California 95054
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Android Developer Hackathon Award Ceremony

Posted by DavidCao01 on March 17, 2010

Android Hackathon Ceremony will be hosted by Silicon Valley Android Developers Group, in collaboration with Informal Android Developers Meetup which organized by Gorgi. We are going to invite all the developers who successfully finish an Android Apps at the Android Hackathon(organized by Gorgi) to demo their app, then we will arrange a vote to let all the audience to select the winners and award at end of the meeting.

The Android Hackathon and award are sponsored by the following sponsors

Diamond Sponsor:

Platinum Sponsor:

Gold Sponsor:

Venue Sponsors:

Hacker Dojo

Gift Sponsors

Marakana.com


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Agenda

6PM: Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Opening remark: Android Hackathon main organizer – Georgi Dagnall
6:45PM Android Hackathon developers demo
7:45PM voting rules and begin to vote
7:50PM Break
8:00PM Speakers & and judge comments
8:30PM Voting close. Announcement
8:40PM Announce Android Hackathon winners and rewards
9pm: Lucky Draw

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Android Developer Hackathon Award Candidates

Posted by DavidCao01 on March 17, 2010

  • Here are the details for our Clipboard History app. App name: AndroClip, by Ted Munnich, Matt Kanninen, Edward Leung, Kenneth Ng Description: A tool to keep track of your clipboard history Details: We took the sample NotePad application, and integrated it with the Clipboard Manager system service. The result was a database to store and access your clipboard history. -MK
  • Vinh
    1. ShowUsLive by Vinh Lam and John Dell’Aera. 2. Have you ever been in Location A but want to know what’s going on at Location B? What do you want to see? 3. This is a social app that enables you to ask the world to show you what they see live.
  • Francisco J. Carriedo
    App: “Personal Timing Asistant”, By: Francisco J. Carriedo, App that leverages the Speech Recognition and Text2Speech APIs to work as a Personal Timing Assistant., You can engage in a small conversation with your Androidy Timing Assistant to achieve your timed goals.
    • Important: Candidates, please bring one page of introduction of of you app to stick on the wall around dinner area during the event. So people can see you app beside the demo.
  • Posted Mar 16, 2010 5:57 PM
    App Name: Handwriting Tutor TagLine: Proper Lettering for Kids By: Pramod Rustagi, Roberto Colecchia, Robert Sloan Description: Handwriting Tutor is an engaging game-like app to teach kids how to write the alphabet. Early stage learners have a difficult time writing properly, especially the correct order of letter strokes, and sometimes producing a mirror image of the letters. Handwriting Tutor rewards kids with 3D eye-candy, giving both audio and visual reinforcement.
    • lawrence
  • App Name: Personal Genomics By: Melanie Swan, Michael Kolb, Lawrence Wong. App Description: Side-by-side comparison of consumer genomic services (23andme, deCODEme, & Navigenics) by loci and variants for 20 conditions (diabetes, cancers, heart disease, etc.)
  • App Name: CallerInfo; Creators: Ben Luu, Laura Klemme; Desc: Beside the phone number (and caller’s name if in contact list), this application displays additional data for the incoming call such as city, state, and anything that users want to display. Here are some examples: “CA, Mountain View”, “CA, Mountain View, my home town”, “CA, Mountain View, my home town”, “CA, Silicon Valley”, and etc, Basically users have control of what they want to display or even disable the feature.
  • Word Magic, by Senthil Pandurangan & Anuradha Raja A fun application for kids to identify missing letters for the picture shown. Word Magic is an excellent application for kids to have fun with words and their spellings. A picture is shown and the kids should select the missing letter for the picture. There are three flavors. You can choose missing letter at the beginning or in the middle or in the last or a challenge mode. The app is loaded with lots of fun features http://android.anusen.com
  • gillesde
    Virtual Kaleidoscope by Gilles de Bordeaux, Joel Marty, Stephan Branczyk My app displays a kaleidoscope image using a subset of a picture from your camera or from a file. Shake the phone for new kaleidoscope effects. Move the phone up for more light and a brighter picture, or down for less light and a darker picture. Use built-in color filters to change the ambiance of the image. When you like what you see, save the image. http://www.flickr.com/photo…
  • S Sriram
    Posted Mar 16, 2010 11:53 AM
    Shortcuts (highlighting the “callme” Abbreviated app) by S. Sriram. Shortcuts is an android client that allows one to use any one of hundreds of abbreviated apps that activate various web services. The callme abbreviated app allows one to type in a shortcut i.e. “callme-twittername: “which then a) composes a message with a url and tweets it and b)allows the twitter user to access the senders google voice embed widget and c) have google place the call http://www.qcolon.com/demo/…
  • Jian Zhang
    App name: Xeekunote Creator: Jian Zhang Desc: Feature rich personal info aggregater supporting voice memo, camera, photos, location, map, and an elegant content browser. web: http://xeeku.com
  • TimeMap, by Siamak Ashrafi Mapping your Google Calendar on a Google Map on Android Send alarm if someone is going to be late because of traffic [time/location/distance]. Show them points of interest on the route. [grocery store, hardware store, restaurants ] http://www.YLabz.com
  • Karl Pohl
    the application I would like to demo developed as part of android hackathon 1. Name: FractCalculator Developer: Karl Pohl 2. one line description: to calculate the size of woodworking projects i.e. cabinets using fractional values 3. The user can use any number (fraction or full numbers) to calculate the physical size of a woodworking project i.e. Cabinets etc. and to store the information in a database for future maintenance/reference
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