Jeremy Brown, Mobile & Web development

CocoaHeads meetup next Thursday - March 3rd - Australian Cocoaheads
http://groups.google.com/group/cocoaheadsau/msg/ca74ccd5d82b4f6d

Find my iPhone
If you ever lose your phone, you can use this app to find it again. Register an account today!
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8

How 5 Companies Are Using the iPad to Increase Productivity
http://mashable.com/2011/02/24/ipad-productivity/

The tiny JSON rendering engine by TwigKit
http://bit.ly/h95y72

This guy built an app using AppEngine+Django that notifies you when friends break up... Awesome. via @pamelafox
http://bit.ly/fRyEl9

Hopes everyone talks to their loved ones about organ & tissue donation this week. 
http://www.donatelife.gov.au

In the face of Libya and Egypt, Palestinian Ruler Asks Facebook Followers For Change
http://www.allfacebook.com/palestinian-ruler-asks-facebook-followers-for-chan...

Some Facebook Page Creation Tools
http://www.allfacebook.com/10-facebook-page-creation-tools-2011-02

76% of the marketers plan to invest in Facebook & 69% in Twitter
http://pollenmarketing.com.au/2011/02/80-marketers-to-increase-digital-social...

Boom, increase your laptop speakers up to 400%
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/22/boom-a-mac-app-to-pump-up-the-volume-by...

Collaborates all the daily deal sites into one email
http://dealpinch.com

YouTube - Cat Laser Bowling

Facebook Drops FBML in Favor of iFrames – Advantages & Challenges
Another, technical look into this change in Facebook fan pages. Personally I think it just means the brands are going to stalk and copy our personal data more.
http://blog.involver.com/2011/02/facebook-drops-fbml-in-favor-of-iframes-adva... 

How Twitter Compares To Facebook: Infographic
http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-stats/how-twitter-compares-to-facebook-i...

This is just inspiring but can't be real. Can it?
Urban SQL injection

Flashboard Wars: The Age vs The Herald-Sun
http://theagevsheraldsun.tumblr.com/

Replicating childhood photos
This is just excellent and funny
http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/

Know your Memes, Emo Dad
http://ow.ly/3XY12

Comscore 2010 Mobile Year in Review
Facebook usage on mobile grew by more than 120% in U.S. and EU5 in past year 
http://www.comscore.com/content/download/7487/128871/version/2/file/comScore+...

Just for Peng
Is IE9 a modern browser? In summary, no. 
http://j.mp/gdVwbW

Eric Schmidt keynote Android has 150k apps, 350k daily activations
http://androinica.com/2011/02/15/android-has-150k-apps-350k-daily-activations...
And "We tried to get Nokia to go to Android"
http://mashable.com/2011/02/15/eric-schmidt-honeycomb-video-editing/

Groupon Australia launched
Game on! Interesting space to monitor with many strong competitors.
Its called http://stardeals.com.au/

Text messaging still Far More popular than social networks 
http://t.co/VMNm9vO via @techcrunch

OpenSignalMaps Crowd-sources mobile cell tower strength 
80,000 downloads And counting 
http://t.co/sFMPX9F via @techcrunch

Android Leads iOS For Mobile Ad Impression Share
Apple iOS ad requests increased 47% month-over-month
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/millennial-for-the-second-month-android-lead...

Hands on Playstation phone
Doesn't look to have 
http://mashable.com/2011/02/15/hands-on-sony-ericsson-playstation-phone/

USB powerpoints
Best invention ever
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/08/sockitz-gives-your-powerpoints-added-usb-ch...

Band wins best album at the Grammy's
A million people ask "Who Is Arcade Fire??!!?"
http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

Do YOU Have Bondi Chai yet? 
Great simple facebook pages 
http://on.fb.me/fi5F6s

Little Old Lady Calls To Have Google Pac-Man Disabled
http://techland.time.com/2010/06/08/little-old-lady-calls-to-have-google-pac-...

Steve Martin tour rider
He is playing the banjo doing a bluegrass music tour.
http://stevemartin.com/stevemartin/2010/06/steve-martins-tour-rider-leaked.html

Almost as good as Iggy pops rider [classic]
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage/arena-rock/iggy-pop

Geek posts his genome to github. A smartass makes changes and issues a pull request.

http://j.mp/fpH8Rr

iseusa wanted no#1 in Google for "student exchange program"

And probably got it with 4.5 million pages of comment spam! 

"Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic." - Google Search

http://bit.ly/i5wikI

Anger with Apple pushes firms to Android

The hardline approach taken by Apple towards media companies selling apps through its iTunes Store could push crucial content partners into the hands of competitors such as Google's Android.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/anger-with-apple-pushes-firms-to-android-20110210-1aonm.html

Look at this fucking hipster

Another great tumblr site, hillarious.

http://www.latfh.com/

Karl Pilkington at a KFC for deaf employees

6 years on, I still can't tell if this guy is for real or just a character.

There are 10 kinds of robots. Robots that understand binary code & robots that do not understand jokes about binary code.

RIP Guitar Hero 
Most popular game a few years ago is now gone, Activision has closed it down.
http://mashable.com/2011/02/09/guitar-hero-dead/

Twitter is apparently worth $11 billion? 
Seems high I mean I love Twitter but Yahoo bought Geocities for over $3 billion. Look what happened to that. With bandwidth so cheap is 140 characters all we want? Tumblr make more sense to me

Track Sydney buses live with GPS
I found this last night after my second 431 bus was cancelled. I hope this data merges into TripView app.
http://www.flinklabs.com/projects/buses/

Nokia drops first MeeGo phone before launch
http://j.mp/i56K9Q

INQ Gives First Demonstration Of Facebook Phone
http://www.allfacebook.com/inq-gives-first-demonstration-of-facebook-phone-20...

Sydney Events

SydPHP February 2011
24 Feb 2011 - 19:00 to 21:00
Sydney Mechanics School of Arts
280 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia
http://sydphp.org/events/?event_id=9

Game Developers Syd Beer & Pixels 
17 February · 19:00 - 22:00 
Thai Garden - Downstairs @ The Bank Hotel 
324 King Street Newtown, Australia

Surftourist launched today
http://www.surftourist.com/

Australian social media stats 
http://matthewgain.com/2011/02/australian-social-media-stats-video-by-box-hil...

How they are charging their mobiles during the Egypt protests
http://zootool.com/watch/xvaab/

Changes to Facebook Pages about to Roll Out Today 
Basically they want you to build iframed 510 wide content, host it on your server and use Graph to interact with their site.
http://post.ly/1bRrI

A trainwreck you can't stop watching. 
This is a bad Flashmob which I'm guessing was designed to be viral internet sensation or a tv ad?
http://bit.ly/gOKFMs

Some really like WebOS....
New HP TouchPad does look impressive. I don't think they will sell many.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/pads/touchpad/index.html

Someone's getting grounded! 
8-Year-Old Girl Racks Up $1,400 Bill Playing "Smurfs Village" iPad Game (via @consumerist)
http://bit.ly/dK16k0

BBC News - Nokia at crisis point, warns new boss Stephen Elop
Nokia CEO says their platform is on fire, the bad kind of on fire. We find out this week what their plan is from the new CEO.
http://cot.ag/fz0H5T

Another take on HTML5 Vs Native apps
Personally, I don't think this guy knows whats fully possible with HTML5 his argument being  "well I haven't seen it yet". But if Facebook are pushing as their mobile platform it will be interesting to see what Facebook and the big guys come up with.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/html5-versus-native-apps/

Meeennndooooossssaaaaaa!! "Simpsons" McBain movie
Ridiculously awesome, The McBain movie, put together from clips from all his appearance's.
http://bit.ly/gKBqXJ (via @ericphu)

Reminder: Sydney JavaScript is 16 Feb
Micheil Smith: Deploying Node.js & Staying Sane
Mikkel Bergmann: BLAM ... Beautify, Lint And Minify your JavaScript
Jarrad Hope: A crash course in WebGL-fu
http://tixi.com.au/sydjs

Alien dalvik brings Android apps to non Android Phones
Now iPhones can get Angry Birds for free
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/02/08/myriads-alien-dalvik-brings-android-ap...

Nokia is set to make a big announcement this week
Could they be going Android? Or buy WebOS?
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/247470,opinion-mobile-industry-sweats-on-nokia-choice.aspx 

British Airwaves iPhone app
Looks pretty sophisticated including ticketing with QR Codes 
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/iphone-app/public/en_gb
 

Charlie Sheen is a bit of a douche
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-06/charlie-sheen-confe...

Best use of Autotune
TPain and Obama
 

Developer stuff

William Wilkinson & My Stupid iPhone Gun App
No app is stupid enough, 17 year old made $16k one month 
http://bit.ly/fB2LYh

Google I/O Tickets sold out In 59 Minutes 
http://tcrn.ch/gP86rI

How QR Codes Can Grow Your Business 
I liked this article just to see the applications of QR codes
http://bit.ly/fICsjp

Creative People

Seven Sparrows - Design and Letterpress
My friend is a designer with a 500kilo letterpress in her garage, she makes things.
http://sevensparrows.com.au

Simplest iPhone Case
I could make this with office stationery.
http://bit.ly/hTGixG

Isotope - jQuery plugin for magical layouts 
http://bit.ly/hCJyn0

The Seven Types of iPhone Users
Thanks to Me for this link
http://gizmodo.com/5752793/the-seven-types-of-iphone-owners

The 11 Funniest Signs on Telephone Poles
via @funnyordie I laughed a lot.
http://ow.ly/3RV4r

@PaulVerhoeven Nerd's #WebsiteOfTheWeek
http://www.awkwardboners.com/ NSFW, technically.

I can honestly say I have never been this drunk in my life 
Classic YouTube video 

iOS dev tip from @sadatrahman
If your app has any server side integration, wrap your server calls with background task completion enablement.

Next Sydney GTUG - Tue 22 Feb 2011 - Android, Maps, Fusion Tables
Welcome to 2011 ! We are off and running with a February meeting.
WHEN : Tue 22 Feb 2011 at 6pm (for 6:30pm start)
WHERE : Google Sydney, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Street, Pyrmont, Sydney
SPEAKERS (So far…): 1. MAPS API for JavaScript (with Fusion Tables)
Speaker : Chris Broadfoot (Google) 2. Android Tips & Tricks for Developers.
Speaker : John Scott
RSVP : Please fill in the form so we can cater for seats and snacks.http://goo.gl/tOTyJ

http://www.sydney-gtug.org/
http://twitter.com/sydgtug
http://groups.google.com/group/sydney-gtug/

Google I/O registrations have started
If you are looking to head to the US in May already, I'd suggest you check their official developer event. Cool HTML5 website also.
http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/ 

Some iOS developers are having their games ripped off and resold
http://www.gamefront.com/app-store-ripoffs-still-available-despite-complaints/ 

$99 note taking tablet
I like just how simple this is 
http://noteslate.com/

Amazing stats on mobile, 200 trillion SMS messages each day in the US alone.
http://jponmedia.posterous.com/mobile-phone-usage-stats-200-trillion-daily-s

Chris Brogan's master list of compelling Facebook fan pages
http://is.gd/0Qyy9w 
 

One great Facebook page I liked 
Using images storytelling/timeline to explain Gary Vaynerchuk (WineTV)
http://www.facebook.com/gary?v=app_10531514314#!/gary?v=app_10531514314
 

Funny chart on whether you should comment on a Facebook status update.
http://j.mp/hCLy9S

The best part of the Superbowl is the ads...
 

30 superbowl ads you can watch online already
http://mashable.com/2011/02/05/super-bowl-ads-on-youtube/

The force, Volkswagen commercial
 

Doritos Pug

The 2011 Yellow Pages are here! now we have a door stop to let in the breeze in this heat.

Events

Mobile Monday Sydney is on 7th Feb @ City Hotel
Lasso www.lasoo.com.au/ are presenting & more details to come!
Lasoo are publishing catalogues for their brands on the iPad
http://tinyurl.com/4tn4og4

Review of Tibbr social enterprise platform 
Keynote at Sydney launch on February 8 
http://bit.ly/ihIbnv

Developer stuff

Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) unveiled today
http://mashable.com/2011/02/02/google-unveils-android-honeycomb-live/

Bump 2.4 Shares Your App Recommendations With Fellow iPhone Users 
http://bit.ly/ewV4lp 

Mobile adoption rates
Three major players are pretty close to even share. I have a feeling this is US only data.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mobile_os_adoption_a_tale_of_two_graphs.php

iOS development highlights: January 2011
Great blog post on the highlights working in iOS recently.
http://oleb.net/blog/2011/01/ios-development-highlights-january-2011/

There are many business benefits to building HTML5 mobile apps, but few, if any, user experience benefits.
Statement recently from @cvilly Craig Villamorhttp://twitter.com/#!/cvilly/status/32569049208590336

@lukew has expanded on this, its kind of interesting but a little dry.
Are there ANY user experience benefits to mobile Web apps VS native mobile apps?
http://bit.ly/fs2VI

My rule: Never delete ANYTHING!  
Flickr Accidentally Deletes the Wrong Account, Vaporizing 4,000 Photos
Why in 2011 where 500Gb costs $40 would you delete anything?
http://t.co/zyRC0Xh

Other stuff

Travelling to the US soon?
Lonely Planet has made 13 of its US & Canada iPhone City Guides free for a limited time. 
http://bit.ly/gdz2OX 

Tumblr- Little Big Details
Great design blog detailing making great UI
http://littlebigdetails.com/ 

Thought you might get a kick out of this latte art printer
http://t.co/KXMCwNi

Mega Shark Vs. Crocosaurus Trailer
Stars Jaleel White (Steve Urkel). This is real and its awesome.