Apple ‘Education’ Event Today in NY at 10am

Finally those of us on the east coast don’t have to wait until 1pm for an event to start.

Apple will likely be unveiling an effort to work with textbook publishers to create interactive eTextbooks (iTextbooks?).

You can follow the event live at TheLoop.

The initiative is rumored to be inspired by the immersive “Our Choice” app.  You can see the video below:

Tags: Al Gore, App, Apple, Event, Our Choice

Mobile: App or Website? Which one works?

Mobile web usage is growing.  I’d say 20-30% of my overall web surfing is mobile.

Quantcast’s January 5th 2010 (yes, it’s even a year behind) says that global and North American mobile usage is skyrocketing.  Between December ’08 and December ’09 mobile web share was up 110%.  At that growth we can expect that last year went from 1.26% on 1/1/2010, to somewhere around 2.5% in 1/2011 (this is just an estimate, I think it’s conservative).

My mobile web traffic (on this site) went from 0 in December 2008, to 4-5 a day in November 2009, to 180 mobile visitors in June 2010 (coinciding with iPhone 4 launch).  Mobile usage is spiking.

How does your website address mobile users?

Do you use an App?

Do you just make sure your website works with a mobile crowd?

We will discuss the options web site’s have in today’s world for engaging the mobile community with the following options:

• Mobile Compatible Website
• Mobile Targeted Website
• Release an App

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Tags: App, Mobile, Quantcast

On the Apple iPad: Problems I See

For the first time in years I think Apple has missed the target.  There are so many problems that I see, right now, with the iPad. › Continue reading

Tags: App, Apple, Droid, iPad, iPhone, iPod