The edWeb - Exploring eBooks for K-12. Build your own private social network for your college or university. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Student Life Network Quick Pitch: Student Life Network is a private student social network. Genius Idea: Builds a private student social network for colleges and universities to build and grow an active online community.
Remember when Facebook was only for college students? That's why TJ Donnelly started Student Life Network, a free private student social network for colleges and universities across North America. Student Life Network offers a private place for students to interact and communicate with other students from their college or university. Sell anything from books to cars on the campus marketplace. TJ Donnelly, president and CEO of Student Life Network, owned two of the largest student travel companies in North America — Breakaway Tours and Impact Educational Tours. Stanford University make app development course available for free. Stanford University has released its mobile app development course online for free, giving developers an opportunity to learn more about Apple's iOS outside the classroom.
A series of lectures, slides and videos, from its iPad and iPhone Application Development (CS193P) course, are available to download from iTunes U. The US institution has posted six lectures lasting an hour each, covering topics including iPhone APIs, object-orientated design, memory management and Objective-C. App developers that are unfamiliar with iOS will need to know the basics in Objective-C language in order to complete the course. Those that take the course will witness the same lectures as students, but will not receive Stanford credits on completion or have access to course tutors. “There’s something about developing for the iOS platform that’s really exciting and fun because it runs on devices that everybody has in their purses or pockets,” Instructor Paul Hegarty said in the Stanford Report.
David Perry: Are games better than life? Will Wright makes toys that make worlds. Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer. Bandwidth_Barn. 2008: The Shift is Coming, Mobile Content Creation. Looking at these various studies, its clear that mobile content delivery will soon be a requirement of doing business and a potentially lucrative one at that.
It being the end of the year and all, I'll venture a forecast that by 2009, most large companies will be struggling with creating an engagement model around mobile content. The top mobile activities right now are IM, music purchasing, tv watching, and content uploading -- clearly, people are doing more than simply consuming media on their mobile devices. What's your brand experience on mobile? Nothing? Eek. Sure, the first, truly engaging content and services provider will open up such a massively fungible advertising platform, but there's still a lot of room for providers to gain a competitive advantage by simply opening up to this medium, without the ads.
Speaking of mobile content delivery, you can now subscribe to my updates using Viigo -- just click on the link on the sidebar under 'Updates Your Way.' Q&A: Tomi Ahonen on why mobile marketers shouldn't obsess over apps. Wearing a fedora, bespoke Hong Kong suit, and shirts with “007” embroidered on the breast pocket, Tomi Ahonen stands out in a crowd.
A former Nokia executive, and almost certainly the most prolific business writer to fixate on monetizing mobile technology, Tomi has been writing about mobile marketing since 2002. He has written the first business book on 3G: m-Profits: Making Money from 3G Services, and more recently The Insiders Guide to Mobile. Tomi explains why mobile marketers shouldn't obsess over apps, but start with the basics... What are the biggest challenges for mobile marketers in the US? American smartphone sales have just passed the point where more than half of all new phone sales are smartphones. The installed population of smartphones is only 31%, meaning that if you do anything that works on every smartphone, every BlackBerry, every iPhone, every Android, every Windows, you are still abandoning 69% of the U.S. population.
Assessing the Impact of iPads on Education One Year Later. Sam Gliksman Mobile digital devices rocketed to popularity around 10 years ago with the release of the iPod. Mobile computing went mainstream with the release of the iPhone in 2007. With the release of the iPad just one year ago, we are now seeing a significant shift in the dynamics of computer purchase and practice – moving away from desktops and laptops to iPads and other mobile devices. Their cost relative to laptops along with the promise of mobile computing has raised tremendous interest in iPad use in education. I don’t believe Apple anticipated the demand for iPads as educational devices. The site is an online network that provides guidance on educational usage, allowing users to ask questions and gain from others’ experiences. The Promise Form factor : Anyone that has used an iPad can attest to its compelling form factor. Consumption or Production? Also, as the application market matures we’re starting to see an evolving depth in the creative opportunities.
Some Considerations. A Look at the Mobile Youth.