Archive | February, 2012

Cool Ideas – Smartphone Hardware Accessories/Appliances

Looking for ideas for accessories for mobile devices/apps – these sites may provide some prototype platforms and ideas:

Adafruit

Maker Shed Store 

CY8CKIT-023 PSoC® Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories

Vinod’s 12 “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile

  1. Data Reduction or Filters: “Reducing, filtering and processing data streams to deliver the information or action that is relevant to you.”
  2. Big data or Analytics: “Analyzing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data to deliver unique services or analysis.”
  3. Emotion: “Services that evoke strong emotions in users.”
  4. Education 2.0 : “Education models that dramatically reduce the cost and increase the availability of quality learning.”
  5. TV 2.0 : “TV as an interactive and social experience both on the primary and the second screen.”
  6. Social Next : “Social as a useful and productive part of lives—enabling collaboration and deep community building around the world in specific areas.”
  7. Interest-based networks: “User driven content that maps to people’s interests both for a better user experience and better targeting.”
  8. Health 2.0 : “Exponentially growing data will yield personalized lifestyle suggestions, improved outcomes, predictive diagnostics and applications we can’t imagine.”
  9. Internet of Things/Universal ID/NFC/Smart sensors: “Sensors and authentication technologies which will interconnect everything and remake our interaction with the world around us.”
  10. Personal Collaborative Publishing : “Truly free press with no barriers to entry and personalized interest-based curation.”
  11. Utility Apps: “Leverage device ubiquity and context to deliver valuable services.”
  12. Marketplaces & Disintermediation : “Remove the middle man, increase market efficiency and produce better results, faster.“

Ref: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/19/unhyped-internet-and-mobile/

Schwartz’s Deli – Montreal

After more then 20 years of hearing Montreal friends and associates tell me of the greatness that is “Schwartz’s Deli”  - I finally visited it today.  It was a trip that should have taken 5 hours but ended up taking almost 8 after waiting in line to get into Schwartz’s and Montreal traffic.

It was a long way to drive for a smoked meat sandwich…  but I have to admit it was the best smoked meat sandwich I have had!

If you are ever in Montreal and you like smoked meat, make the time to stop by - 3895 Saint-Laurent Boulevard · Montreal, Quebec


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Mobile App Companies in the Ottawa Region

Reblogged from Brian Hurley's Blog:

There has been a lot of interest in the mobile app development cluster in Ottawa.  I recently took an  inventory of companies in Ottawa who were developing mobile apps or mobile related software.  The current list of companies I found is below:

  • Purple Forge – Community Engagement Solutions – iPhone
  • Zeebu Mobile – Children’s Games – RIM, iPhone - inactive…

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Updated Feb 17, 2012

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