More brilliant than the last!
Love Consumer Reports.
Google is bringing Android software development to the masses.
The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its Android smartphones.
The free software, called Google App Inventor for Android (http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/), has been under development for a year. User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not computer science majors.
The thinking behind the initiative, Google said, is that as cellphones increasingly become the computers that people rely on most, users should be able to make applications themselves.
Alternatively-titled: "Why Google > Apple"
This is pretty great. The LeBron graphic, normally $100, is $17.41. Which, as Gizmodo pointed out, is the birth year of one Benedict Arnold.
When I dabbled in Gowalla, I liked what I saw. I think the service deserves to stick around; it's definitely got it's own flavor. But today, foursquare is undeniable. It's exciting - to have been an early adopter, to be in touch directly with the [very cool] people behind it on a semi-regular basis (lame name drop, but whatever), to see it grow in size, revenue, funding, feature-set. As they continue to tighten bolts here and there, it just gets more interesting.
"This is so epic."
MOAR RAD!!!
