HTML5, Flash, Mobile

These blog posts that I bookmarked last night turned out to address the “Flash is dying” issue.  Actually looks more like it may have some serious competition.  I originally bookmarked them to read because of the device-agnostic mobile testing.

Jason Griffey, librarian Top Tech Trends ALA Midwinter 2010

Gizmodo (long, and has some examples of html5)

Stan Bogdanov, instructional multimedia specialist in a library The Demise of the Native App

Meanwhile, Adobe released  a Flash player which can run on what appears to be everything except Apple products late last year, once the mobile browsers will support it (if I’m reading the geek speak correctly).  Flash Professional CS5 will have the capability to create Flash-based iPhone apps.

Chart of smartphone users in 2009 by OS

timoreilly: Handicapping the smartphone OSes: iPhone Blows Past Windows Mobile for #2 spot

http://bit.ly/7CktSt (about 19 hours ago from Seesmic)

It's not just me...

http://budurl.com/h2hh Blackberry e-mail troubles.

Go Mobile

Go mobile: Use these strategies and increase your mobile literacy and your patrons’ satisfaction
By Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Digital Collections Librarian, Yale University Library, and Joe Murphy, Science Librarian, Coordinator of Instruction & Technology, Yale Science Libraries, New Haven, CT, USA  http://budurl.com/gbum

Regenerative Power Bike Wheel

Copenhagen wheel (like a Prius for bikes) unveiled 2day. iPhone app for energy, speed, traffic & nav.  I want one, likely to even work on my RideRite recumbent, and the iPhone to monitor things with :-)

http://budurl.com/w6cp

ConnectYard - social web, mobile and LMS

http://www.connectyard.com/

Class discussions via Facebook, Twitter, mobile, text, e-mail into a conversation thread in the LMS.  Works with Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, etc. 

Mobile (and laptop) participation in class at Purdue - Hotseat

http://www.purdue.edu/hotseat

Uses its own Twitter-like interface, Twitter, or Facebook to permit students to ask questions or join discussions in and out of class.  Videos are an official promo, student reactions, and a local news report, complete with local insurance agency ad.  Of 600 students in two courses, they have a 75-80% adoption rate.