MeshU wrap-up

posted by pete on April 7th, 2009

On April 6th, I gave a talk at MeshU called Is that an iPhone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? which I felt was warmly received by the crowd. I was quite nervous, addressing a room full of my peers and being sandwiched between two amazingly smart people (Leigh Honeywell and Chris Wanstrath) but overall I’m not sure if I’d change much to do it again.

If you were at my talk and want to give some anonymous feedback, they’ve set up a very short survey on Rypple, here.

You’re welcome to follow me on Twitter if you’re into that sort of thing; please note that I do not use LinkedIn, and my Facebook usage is personal.

Here’s a breakdown of the things I linked to:

Lim Ding Wen, the 9 year old app developer
The missing trialware business model
Ad Mob Exchange
Cydia, the jailbroken app store
Fart App Round-up
John Gilmore and the Secret Laws
Rejected Apps Dead Pool
An app that would be “too confusing” for users
Moop.me’s Lyrics app, rejected 4 times
App Lookup directory of custom protocol handlers
Alocola, GPS for your web apps
Credit card processor
Rhodes, write in Ruby deploy everywhere
Making graphics with Canvas
Mozilla Bespin web code editor
Mobile Orchard, the best iPhone development blog by a mile
Huge list of iPhone development resources
The Amazing iPhone, high-quality free research white paper
ObjectiveResource, access Rails web services from Objective-C

I have uploaded my slides to SlideShare, even though I’m not sure how useful they will be without me narrating them!

Leigh Honeywell was kind enough to post a short clip of me dancing at the beginning of the talk on Vimeo:

pete dancing from hypatia on Vimeo.

Finally, my intention is to follow-up this wrap-up with a formal proposal to consider iPhone web applications and side-stepping the iTunes Application Store (and their 30% gross cut) completely.