Apple iPhone AppStore is about to get it’s First Augmented Reality App
AcrossAir creates a very interesting Apple iPhone App. This amazing new application tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.
When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons. Only available to Apple iPhone 3GS users.
AcrossAir
AcrossAir is working with companies to take advantage of the Apple iPhone platform for everything from fun games to enterprise applications. Our first applications, delivering TV listings for TVGuide.co.uk and our fun game the Fruit Loons, are launching in AppStore in June 2009. Learn more: http://www.acrossair.com/
The first mobile Augmented Reality browser premiers in the Netherlands
The World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. Learn more: http://www.layar.com/
I would like to see something like this for the Washington DC Metro. This would also be a nice way to locate the many Washington DC museums.
Inventor of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee is asking for Your data – Linked Data Project
Government Responds with Open Data Sources: Data.gov #Gov20
Vivek Kundra U.S. Federal Government on Government 2.0
The movement toward Government 2.0 is great, this is like a leap toward Government 3.0. I know there are plenty of intelligent/creative people out there that will be able to create some amazing things with http://data.gov
These are exciting times! Opportunities Everywhere!
Opportunity to have Fun Building Government 2.0 Application: Apps For America II
Apps for America is a special contest put on this year to celebrate the release of Data.gov! Sunlight Labs is doing it alongside Google, O’Reilly Media, and TechWeb and the winners will be announced at the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Washington, DC at the end of the Summer.
Our time to review information is shrinking while the available information to review is growing, which leads us to the need for methods that help us understand information faster. Data visualization will play a key role in helping us convey and interact with information in more interesting ways. Adobe Flash Builder is a tool that will help.
Adobe has released a beta version of Adobe Flash Builder, the next generation of the popular Flex Builder tool. Zend Framework is now included within Flash Builder, allowing developers to introspect PHP classes and then to use a drag and drop approach to bind specific methods to UI components in applications, such as interactive charts, graphs, datagrids, and more. These new features provide a simplified development approach for adding rich UI to PHP applications using the Flex Framework and Zend Framework. Download Flash Builder 4 Beta 1 today from http://labs.adobe.com/?sdid=ERZSR.
I’m excited to see the Zend Framework is included in the new Adobe Flash Builder. I have been closely following this project. I believe the Zend Framework plays a key role in Enterprise Level application development. This framework is
Well Documented
Simple
Safe for the Enterprise
Supported by Industry
Supported by Development Community
Supports Rapid Development
Flexible Architecture
Extensible
Tested Code Base
Professional Training Available
Certification Possible
Some people may argue that PHP Zend Framework is just an abstraction layer of unwanted, bloated code. I disagree. I believe the Zend Framework, with it’s Object Oriented approach is the foundation of Enterprise 2.0 level code. I recommend at least taking a look http://framework.zend.com .
