Poll Poll: Would You Pay for an API? Every week on ReadWriteMobile, we ask the community here a question related to mobile apps, mobile platforms, or development. You can see a round-up of some of the more popular recent poll Q&A's here. This week, we thought we would focus on the topic of APIs. If you're building a mobile app, are you willing to pay to use an API? How do you… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Apps NFC in 2011: Launch Driver-Friendly Mobile Apps Using Your Car Keys NFC, or near field communication, is a term that's often associated with mobile payments and mobile wallet applications this year, especially with new launches like Google Wallet and Visa's digital wallet service underway. But NFC as a technology has more use cases than that. One new example, which just debuted this week, is a chip that makes… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Tools SocketStream: A Real-Time Web Framework for Node.js SocketStream is an open source real-time web framework for Node.js sponsored by AOL. It's in its early stages now, and isn't production ready but is usable. It's built on Socket.io, Redis and JQuery and supports CoffeeScript. Hack Klint Finley View comments
mobile Database Clients for the iPad Continuing our series of business apps for the iPad, today we look at database clients, including ones for managing FileMaker, MySQL, Oracle and PostGres databases. Previously we looked at personal database apps. We've also looked at several iPad apps for IT professionals. Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
web Mainstream Location App Life360 Hits 3 Million Users: Here's Its Disruptive Plan Early adopters may love to check in at nightlife hotspots on Foursquare and Facebook Places, but what might location technology look like once it moves into the mainstream? Fast-growing startup Life360 is aiming for that mainstream market and has interesting plans. The company offers a free app for family members to track each other's… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments