I’m catching up on blog posts slowly. This one’s the Mobile Monday London Demo Night from 13th September… Together with Ewan and Sergio (manfully representing FuturePlatforms), I was presenting my Over The Air hack from the weekend (see previous post) and I was consequently suffering from a lack of sleep. Here’s a quick run down of the other presentations:
psonar
- upload music to psonar
- get at music on any HTML5 connected device by streaming or downloading
roulette cricket
http://www.roulettecricket.com/
- great idea
- impressive implementation by FuturePlatforms, as usual…
- £2.50/month to play for prizes, or a revenue share from bets
HipSnip
- mobile notepad for the things you want
- enhanced with smart searches & geolocation:
- wine.com, cnet, imdb, yelp
- mobile design a little too small for hands… need to follow Apple HIG on Android too :-)
- user research: found that people take photos, or save a draft SMS but then forget
- wanted to have a way to remind people
The logo is an aleph. Is that for infinity or for hebrew? The letter carved into the head of the golem…?
Toshl
- personal expense record
- quite secure
- have apps for android, iphone & maemo
- sync to web
- on web, can analyze, export
- currently 45,000 users, 1/3 active
- iPhone downloads in 3 weeks almost surpassed Android’s 6 months
- are in negotiation with banks for auto-download
- currently have a freemium model, looking for investment from banks for rebranding
- some great observations:
- RIM apps generally look ugly
- front end and usability on mobile apps takes 50% of development time
- cross platform development is nose bleeding expensive!
Collinson Group
- Columbus Insurance is one of their brands
- a mobile trip planner
- but with a surprisingly comprehensive offline database of airports, flight plans, hotels and car hire
- had a desktop version for quite a few years, just brought across to Apple platform
Appmarks
Adrian Cuthbert
- bookmarks in that point to specific places within apps
- want to add Android version too
- if app not available, offers to download it from store
- would like apps to supply relevant info
Milestone Planner
Benjamin Ellis
- need a plan, but things change very fast
- wanted a plan on a page that everyone could update
- webapp written with HTML5 and javascript
- server keeps a full history of all changes
- can view as list in webapp, RSS, export to twitter
- facilitating a discussion around the plan
- automatically generate weekly reports in PDF
- most planners are based on TODOs, this is based on outcomes and people instead, larger scale
Qootia
- big screens that people can interact with by making voice phone calls
- good demo, with great timing from the presenter
Liquid Air Lab
- 480 apps developed on most popular smartphone platforms
- 7.8 million users
- 33,000 downloads per day
- Android users are little more techie
- BlackBerry users especially in the US
- Nokia user… is catching up fast… !?!?
- Ovi store has overtaken iPhone share
- (since they have a special category for Radio apps…)
- iPhone is going down in share compared to the others
- started on Symbian and moved on to iPhone, etc
- now have 7 platforms…
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