Steve’s Little world

They make buy sell reccomendations to institutional and mutual fund types.
Jeff Rath lays it down…

Key stats and points:

12 Billion in cap will be available after this round of consolidation

There is a collision coming between PNDs and Handsets

Huge companies are understanding that location in their current apps let them get better profits: Hexagon, Pitney Bowes, John Deere…

Nokia is no longer a device company

Really interesting talk - wish you were here…

I am having a great time at our devCon- just finished an interesting panel with Maps.com, NIM, loopt, Proxix, and Local Matters. Fun place to be as a platform - you get to see all these people building kick ass products off your stuff. Everything from mobile apps using DDS or Insurance companies writing custom DDS plugins or Customers writing their own javascript to roll awesome apps.

The other great fun has been all the interaction I have seen. Watching someone ask a question and then watch 5 people come up to that person to talk about why they were asking and what they are doing.

I have started uploading some of my photos to flickr and tagging them as devCon07

And Adena is doing a great job blogging the sessions she is attending. Thanks Adena, hope you enjoy your sessions and yeah the wireless here has been great - not one dropped connection yet.

In case you might have missed it - Android (gPhone) apps are being written in Java. I am not sure if this is the only way but all their demos are in Java and all the util libraries they have created are in Java as well.

Their LBS/GPS API has hooks in it for KML as the Mock GPS. It also has hooks for pulling in Google maps directly. Bet they make it easy cheezy to get a map up and running with a built in GPS.

Better spark up Eclipse (how long until …

Back to moving stuff to the Hayes Mansion for the big show.

While I can not make a rabbit appear out of a hat - I can help to get Adobe, Sun, and OpenWave on the same stage to talk about Mobile Spatial App development (Day 2, last session). They get to give short presentations on why their tech is the greatest thing since the Ginsu. From there we are going into QA mode. I have some that I know I want to ask but here is where the internet tubes gets to participate. Send me your questions in advance and I will pick some of the best to be asked of our esteemed panelists. I want this panel to be spicy so let’er rip.