AppsMarathon website : http://www.appsmarathon.eu/


Ping Ping

• solutions for 'everyday small expenses'
• 'in App' payment for Android
• iPad payment via SMS (take your iPhone to pay on your iPad :-))
  
• Le Soir, Public Bikes (Villo), GPS Parking Guide

123feelfree

• I liked the way the energiewijzer is displayed on the mobile.

Financial App @wavestock

• Was a very good example of a business app by someone who knows the business and not the technology (in the first place). I voted for him even if Finance is not my favorite Industry.
  
• I liked the idea of pro-actively proposing information rather than requiring users to enter and search for stocks. And afterward flagging for watch lists... I found there is added value for the end user here that goes beyond the app. The app is not an app, it's a service and not a self service. Food for thought.
  

Store Gun

• A part from the fact that barcodes can help you calculate where to buy cheaper, what I retained is that AndroPan allows to share Panoramic pictures. (Sometimes you retain the side talk)
  

CRM4PDA

• The success of the CRM is kiss:  Instead of flying between screens (email/calendar/...), sales have access to all info in a chronological list, giving them more productivity.
• Looking for partners to build a new mobile version...
  

Interact/Movade

• "Digital signage isn't efficient enough": you need to add interactivity to it. Your shopping assistant on your mobile synchronizes with the digital signage.

LinkID - Your Mobile ID for Life

• "In General, Apps are insecure and so unusable for businesses"
• "The approach has 4 steps : 1. Business Case, 2. Detailed Bus. & Tech Analysis, 3. Pilot, 4. Production" --> I like it, cause I work like that also - see eRRA Methodology

Nokia - Rahim Zakhoun

• "There is a great potential to work with Nokia (because we have the highest mobile market share)"
• "There are 1mio Nokia phones in Belgium"

Koen Delvaux

• "A mobile phone is built for sharing things"
• "A mobile phone now allows impulsive buys"
• "Create something (apps) valuable, what should your app do ?"
• Good list on when to use Native Vs HTML5
• "AppInventor is the Visual Basic for mobile phones" - not sure they will like it at Google
• "You might not even need an app, so think twice" - use foursquare, Bump, Layar

Movie HD - Tom Nijs

• "We decided that strong graphics would be our differentiator. We we saw the competition we thought : We can do it better."

Obscura - Friedger Müffke

• Encryption of private images by OISafe (AES)

Movie Quizz - Litrik De Roy

• Play a quizz about Movies on your Mobile --> Could be used for tests (schools, driver licence, eLearning...)
  

iPad Project - Miss Little robot

• The iPad is than used as a presentation tool for sales on the go

Boye Hartmann - tapptic

• Commodore 64 emulator on iPhone
  
• "When in 6 days you have 1mio downloads, you start to thing you have done the right thing"
• "Never make 'in app' purchases without telling Apple"

Adobe - Serge Jespers

• "Different Screens have different sizes and capabilties, it gives headaches..."
  
• "Look a the the Open Screen project. Everybody is there except a small company..."
  
• Cool BBC videos on Android Demo

STIB/MIVB Mobile App @emich and @gregone

• "Finally we'd better make a Mobile Web app than an Android app, so everybody can have access to it" (3000 downloads on Android Market)
  
• Google Transit to be integrated
  

David Robertson - Best Biking Roads

• "Find new cool places to ride with your bike"
• Again someone who puts passion first, technology second. As it should be...
  

In The Pocket - @pieterjan, @itpocket

• Their Samsonite application won the contest. If it looks cool (great app realization, movie and everything), I was not totally convinced by the concept.

Alain Gashard - EDA

• I like the way they call their apps for 1212 and 1313 : Woo da Fook (reverse directory) and Formular 1 for automatic forms completion on mobiles

Tom Schuyter - Verbeterjebuurt.be

• Connect the citizens with the city via an app and a website. Use your phone to send pics of problems you see in your city. Good idea : useful and smart.

Adobe Air on Mobile - Serge Jespers

• We can play with the Mobile using adobe flash... of course. Games is the n°1 cultural product nowadays...

La grenouille qui monte, qui monte...

Il était une fois un peuple de grenouilles qui organisa un concours. L'objectif était d'arriver en haut d'une grande tour.

Beaucoup de supporters se rassemblèrent pour voir la course et soutenir les participantes.
 

Et la course commença.
 

Mais personne n'y croyait vraiment. Une grenouille ça n'est pas fait pour grimper… aucune n'atteindra jamais la cime.
 

Les gens disaient : C'est pas la peine, elles n'y arriveront jamais!
 

Les grenouilles commencèrent à se résigner. Mais quelques unes continuaient…
 

Et les gens disaient encore : C'est pas la peine, elles n'y arriveront jamais!
 

Et les grenouilles petit à petit s'avouèrent vaincues. Il y en avait une qui insistait, insistait.
 

A la fin, il n'en resta qu'une qui avec un énorme effort, atteignit le haut de la tour.
 

Les autres voulurent savoir comment elle avait fait. Elles s'approchèrent pour le lui demander.
 

Et on découvrit… qu'elle... était SOURDE!

N'écoute pas les personnes qui ont la mauvaise habitude d'être négatives...
Rappelle-toi du pouvoir des mots que tu entends ou que tu lis.
Sois sourd quand quelqu'un te dit que tu ne peux réaliser tes rêves 

En réponse à Bastien Demange

Source: http://christianekolly.kazeo.com/Contes-paraboles/La-grenouille-qui-monte-qui-monte,a1081550.html

Scenes from China - The Big Picture - Boston.com: "Han Ziwen celebrates his purchase of the first Apple iPad tablet computer in China at the Apple store in Beijing on September 17, 2010 as Apple began selling iPads in China. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) #

Ne dites plus "shit happens"

mais plutôt

"Quand le Condor Royal a une colique dans le ciel,
le malchanceux sur terre n'a point de chapeau"

(Un cactus dans le Waterzooi :  http://www.rtbf.be/video/v_un-cactus-dans-le-waterzooi?id=458702&category=divertissement)

'Uitgevers misbruiken en ondergraven auteursrecht': "Volgens Visser is 'het auteursrecht bedoeld om de auteur zeggenschap te geven over de verspreiding van zijn werk, hem in staat te stellen voor het gebruik ervan een vergoeding te bedingen én om de verspreiding van zijn werk aan te moedigen. Het is níet bedoeld om een nieuwe verspreidingsvorm zoals digitale boeken te boycotten en oude exploitatiemodellen te beschermen tegen nieuwe.'

Bien dit ça !!

J'ai pas trouvé comment iTunes permet de lancer des webradios à partir d'un simple URL...

J'ai donc créé un site web qui me permet de lancer mes radios favorites (Europe1, France Inter, RGRFM, Topradio, Fun Radio, La Première). Il me donne un accès plus rapide à mes radios préférées que l'application Radio.be (qui est très bien). Connectez vous en WiFi pour écouter ces web radios.

Le site est ici : http://www.lowas.be/iSite/



J'ai encore de la place pour au moins 3 radios...

En savoir plus ? http://appepaper.blogspot.com/2010/09/iwebkit-example-web-site-with-web.html
 

Here is an example of an iPhone/iPod site made with iWebKit.

iWebKit allows to make mini-websites which display well on an iPhone/iPod but also on Android.

I created a page where I have access to the radios I use to listen.

Tapping on the icon will launch the webradio.

On Android, it launches A Online radio to play the stream.

If you tap on News, you'll get my RSS feed displayed.

Of course, for Android's fans I should change the Safari Icon to a more "politically correct" icon.

If you like the site you can have a quick access to it. In Safari, click on the + sign at the bottom than "Add to home screen". You'll than have an icon on your home screen for quick access.

Today I'm trying something and I'm not sure it's a good idea (yet).

I have decided to write my eBook with Google Sites rather than with OpenOffice. Why ? So I can switch computer and share my draft with friends. The idea is to work in two phases : work on the content until I'm happy and than have a formatting only issue.

Is it a good idea ? Not sure yet...

The Pros :

• I can share it
• I can publish it in one click and people online can read it
• People who have access can comment

The cons :

•  I'll have to copy it all back from Google Sites to OpenOffice... and/or something else to create a PDF or an ePub or a file for Amazon DTP... And it's a LOT of work...
  

Last weekend we did De Gordel. A bicycle tour in Flanders around Brussels. We did 118.86 KM in 6h10. 19,23 Average Speed.

Photo1: the last checks before departure.

Photo2 : we saw some bunnies on the road.

Photo3 : for her birthday : 120 Km with a smile.

Photo4 : The arrival in Overijse

Photo 5 : Natalia waited for us at the end in Overijse for a concert.

This morning I read a good article about the pro and cons of the iPad (see What I love - and what I hate - about iPad | BetaTales http://bit.ly/cltESi).

One of the good thoughts of this article is that an iPad is a personal device. Once an iPad is configured (email, twitter, facebook...), you don't want to give it to someone else as he would immediately have access to your 'secrets'.

This stresses once again the lack of security features on such devices.  In the future tablets will come with a multi-user login screen as on PCs. This will also make a process easier : the "rooting" or "jail-breaking" of your device. Logging in as 'root' will make it easier to configure the tablet. Having a real super-user access to a device that you own will become a real plus, especially for "enterprise" configurations for which apps aren't to be found in the App Store...

Note that Google, with Chrome OS has got it right. After you have signed out of your Google account, you could give the device to someone else who would just have to sign-in to have access to HIS information.