A Game of Phones Gaining Mobile Developer Mindshare The barrier for entry for creating software for computing devices has never been lower. This has a lot to do with the mobile revolution. According to a report from VisionMobile, the time to market for applications has decreased from 82 days through traditional channels to 36 days with the advent of the app store. Developers have more reasons to… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Guest Entrepreneurship Sucks The sad state of affairs is that working for yourself is really just a worse version of working for somebody else We really, deeply, unabashedly, lust after entrepreneurship. It's the dream job. Do whatever you want! No rules! Your own office, your own schedule, everything exactly the way you like it. At Harvard's Biz school where I am a student… Josh Petersel View comments
Google Google I/O 2012 Update Google has rescheduled the 2012 Google I/O developers' conference for June 27-29. It was initially announced for April 24-25. The event was immensely popular this year, and the new date allows it to be extended for three days instead of two. It will still take place at Moscone Center West in San Francisco as planned. The announcement on the Google… Jon Mitchell View comments
APIs jQuip Puts jQuery on a Diet If you've wanted a slimmer jQuery, and many do, you might want to look at jQuip. Demis Bellot launched the project on GitHub earlier this month. The goal for jQuip? According to the GitHub page, "to kickstart jquery.com into re-organizing its code-base so it's more modular since we believe we've proved the most useful parts of jQuery is a… Hack Joe Brockmeier View comments
Google Google Supports Egypt Elections Egyptians go to the polls today to vote in the first election since the ouster of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. Egypt was a flashpoint in the so-called Arab Spring this year, a string of popular uprisings in which the Web and mobile technology played crucial and unprecedented roles. Google is celebrating this historic event with an… Jon Mitchell View comments