Weekly Web Watch #24

Apps (Games, QR Codes & Social Media are in their own categories)

Mobile application uptake yet be truly popular and a global reality (make sure to enjoy the brief video at the top of the article!)

JSON Over SMS and Other Cool Stories from the Mobile World (overly optimistic/simplistic view of smartphone uptake in the developing world but interesting take on how their use may look once they are taken up there)

7 Things You Should Know About Mobile App Development

11 Frameworks for Web and Mobile App Developers

Cross Platform Mobile App Creator OpenPlug Drops All Fees

Appsbar Lets Anyone Make Free iOS and Android Apps for Free

Sencha Developers Conference Presentations (halfway down page under “Sessions”)

Getting Started with jQuery Mobile (Adobe)

jQuery Mobile Training Videos (Pinehead.tv)

Microsoft Helps iOS App Devs Do Windows Phone with API Tool

How Apps Stay on Top in the App Store

10 Tips For Designing mLearning And Support Apps

Design & Innovation

Innovation as a Means of Grace

Pretotyping

Developing Design Principles

Games/Gaming

Game Closure Launches HTML5 Based Cross-Platform Game Technology

GitHub Game Engines (primarily HTML5 Based)

General/Other

Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut

Would You Pay Over 800 a Month for Internet? (Wonderful, detailed look at the intersection of mobile and the lives of people in the emerging world)

The Dollar a Week “Mobile Challenge” (Scroll down and start reading after the bold “So, it got me thinking… I wonder what the equivalent challenge might be in the mobiles-for-development sector?")

Whats Happenin' in Mobile Marketing? MMA Forum Asia Review- The Most Astonishing Event Ever (title given by Tomi Ahonen so believe it)

Teething Problems: Hurdles for Mobile Marketing

My Mobile Desiderata from Breaking Development (wow, lots of great little nuggets here)

Visa Unveils Mobile Payment Best Practices Guidelines

Cell Phone Screen Resolution, Sorted by Brand and Model

Mobile for Good (Health, Education, Activism, Etc.)

Mobile Health: Why Should it Just Be for the Rich People with Expensive Smartphones? (The same thinking and observations need to be applied to the Gospel so that it isn’t only made available to rich people with expensive smartphones)

Mobiles for Learning in Africa... Too Good to be True? (video of top mobile learning expert, 45 min)

M4D - Mobile (cellular) phones for/and development (Links to 360+ papers on the use of mobile in development work)

NETRA: Diagnosing Vision Disorders with a $2 Attachment to a Mobile Phone

Mobile Ministry

Internet Evangelism Day and the Majority World

The Key to Victory for Christian Media Warriors

Richard Kang :: Cultivate 11 (Notes from Cultivate conference presentation)

The Stories of the Bible in Every Language

Mobile Web

Introduction to W3C Mobile Web and Application Best Practices (Online course starting in June)

Native is Easy Web is Essential (make sure to check out his other presentations while at SlideShare)

A User Centered Approach to Web Design for Mobile Devices