Will Google rebrand Android as Mobile Chrome? With Android apps reaching 20,000, Scott wonders if Google will pull together its fractured OS play. Regardless, apps will be everywhere in 2010.
Ben Britten Smith’s first chapter in iPhone Advanced Projects is worth the price of the book alone. The code for a particle generator is clean, elegant and well documented.
Andy Rubin should be given complete control over the gPhone, giving ChromeOS a chance to be a real competitor to OS/X.
Pushtone 1.0 was approved last night by Apple. This App lets you send hilarious alert sounds to iPhones and iPod touches. For a simple app, it packs a lot (push notifications, free sms, images, audio, tables, registration, etc).
Site “ants” are the real-time implicit community created by those that visit a web site. What if you could interact with this community, easily, for free?
Apps made the cover of Business week! Apple has made computing fun again, and the market is exploding. Companies on the leading edge are entertaining and adding bite-sized value to millions around the world. And they’re getting paid handsomely for it, a buck or two at a time.
Recovery.gov went live today with new Apps from North Highland Partners! Now we can visualize how $800B of the recovery dollars are being spent.