Anyone thinking RIM is standing still, wel… look no further. This Swedish outfit, TAT, just go picked up by the Blackberry maker. This should give them a much needed shot in the arm in the UI department from a creativity standpoint.
via Wired.
I have been relatively quiet here lately, but I certainly haven’t stopped building RIA, Flash or anything… I have been doing a lot of work in mobile, and one of those research areas has been the Adobe mobile options for smartphones.
I just posted a joint article authored with Erik Peterson there outlining key differences between AIR for Android and the iOS packager created applications. Capabilities of AIR for Android, the limitations inherent in using cross platform toolsets and some of the ways we would like to see the iOS packager and the AIR for Android tool.
If you are working in this area, you should probably check it out. We’ll try to keep the list updated as things change, and with MAX just around the corner, we all know it will change!
To me, this just looks like a perfect example of the openness and creativity you can see in the Android community. Find your way to your destination by using a X-Wing Targeting computer…
Lovely. Can’t wait until AIR for Android’s formal release and all these awesome AIR for Android apps to start coming out!
I’m headed to a great conference… “Design 4 Mobile” From the site:
“Design For Mobile is the first and only North American mobile user experience conference. The focus is on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing.”
I’m looking forward to a week of discussion and presentations from industry leaders from Microsoft, Motorola, Google, eBay, Northwestern and Little Springs Design.
I’ve had some discussion with people from UX Magazine that are going to be at the event and the organizers themselves. This looks to be a really solid event in a great venue.
Exciting stuff.
I’ve got the SDK. The IDE. The devices.
Now, some reading material. These look like some great titles, and I have them enroute.
I guess I have drank the kool-aid. Who am I kidding… I did that a while ago. 
You may not need an “app for that”… Let’s have a sense of reality and use proper judgement before jumping into dedicated application development, shall we? Read the full article on this in my latest post at Float Mobile Learning’s Blog.
BTW, this may be my favorite image from our illustrator, Matt, yet.
I’d like to alert my readers of a new site I helped create with the talented people at The Iona Group. Float Mobile Learning is our mobile learning strategy practice. We work with companies to understand and leverage the power of mobile learning. We help them meet their business strategies by making useful information accessible, anytime, anywhere.
The site features some great art from my friend and coworker, Matt Forcum. Matt runs the site Robot Beach, a webcomic about robots, crabs and seagulls. It’s good.
Take a look at this illustration from the site:
I hope you find the content at the site useful, as well. We are looking to make FloatLearning.com THE resource for mobile learning strategy news, information and opinion.